First Saturday of Training

Yesterday was my first Saturday training with Chicago Endurance Sports. It was rough getting up at 6am on a Saturday morning but once I was up and out, it wasn't so bad. We did a few running drills--high knees, butt kicks and 100m speed intervals before our 60 minute run. I ran with another woman who will be doing her first triathlon and we had a chance to get to know each other fairly well over the course of 6 or so miles. It turns out that 3 years ago she worked for a big competitor of one of the magazines I work for. What a small world! The last mile was a very wet one, we got poured on and I was soaked. But once we were done, the rain stopped and I felt great. It was an anomaly to be done running by 9:30am on a Saturday.  Overall, it was a great way to start and I'm looking forward to Thursday's swim clinic.