Road to 50k Week 8 - Friends For The Journey

This week I'm on Week 8. Alright, two months in and my weekly miles are 4 times what they were before I started training. Yes, you read that right. QUADRUPLED MY WEEKLY MILES. Due to my training, I have had to miss some outings with friends and group events. Luckily, I'm blessed with the best friends ever who understand my need to have to do this and support my journey towards becoming an UltraRunner.
I was very happy this week to be surrounded by so many friends. I kicked off my Sunday with a group of my November Project buddies hiking South Fortuna cos selfies, duh. Those stairs still kill me. Monday was my long run and it was all kinds of all over the place. The heat made me stop and rest at the beach a bit before continuing on. I arrived in Oceanside only to find out I missed the coaster and had to wait another hour and a half. Rather than sit and wallow, I ran another 1.7 miles around Oceanside Transit Center. And after that I had theee best Yoga class at The Movement Space SD. Legs up the wall never felt better.
Wednesday, November Project SD had a pretty awesome workout that had us running through the jungle and incorporating the Avengers into our workout. Here's a tip, if you ever need to do a 3 legged race, coordinate outside - inside before you start running. We almost face planted a few times before figuring it out. It was a great workout still and I got to meet Benny, a traverbaler from November Project New Orleans and join in on the NPNOLA 31 Burpee Challenge for August.
Luckily, the weather has chilled out in San Diego so I was able to do Mt Soledad later in the day on Thursday. And FRIDAY was a blast. Joalby was back at DTF (DownTown Fridays Stair Group) at the San Diego Convention Center with an epic circuit workout led by Jo. Between South Fortuna, NP and DTF, I was surrounded by so many friends this week.
Wrapped up with a run on the boardwalk to get a shakeout run in prior to Sunday's AFC Half Marathon. I'm ready!!!

Two of my best friends are leaving this week for a month, Blaise to Antarctica and Tim on a military training thing. I'm glad I got to hang out with both of them before they left. And my girl Dev who did her first NPC Competition this week was welcomed back on Friday with a night of drinks, food and all the fun stuff she couldn't indulge in during her training.

And another huge thank you to Jared Campbell,DC at Fix Body Group for this week's Chiro Appointment. That shockwave therapy and active release was painful in every sense of that good hurt kinda way. Hurt me if it means I'm gonna be better for it.

DTF Stairs DownTown Fridays (photo by Alex Pardus)

Never Stop Exploring - South Fortuna Group