Did 18 this morning, too fast. Went out with the woman who insists that I can keep up with her (I can't) and we kept a 9:30 pace despite me scolding her at every milepost. (My intended race pace for the marathon will be no faster than 9:45, so that was toooooo fast for a long run!). Kept that up until about 12 miles in - finally slowed to about a 10 minute mile.

Along the lines of the recent conversation here, this woman kept up a running commentary of "can" or "can't" for the guys who were running in the other direction with no shirts. I was cracking up, since she's my mom's age and I can't imagine my mom being bold enough to even acknowledge that they weren't wearing shirts.