Nathan has mentioned a couple of times in the last few years he thought it would be cool for the two of us to run together, but both of us always shrugged it off because we thought it would be impossible to actually do. Nathan really got into running in Heidelberg, where his squadron regularly ran about 15 miles every week, and I literally never run. The two of us trying to run together sounded like a recipe for misery and disaster.
Fast forward to MLK Day this year. After we dropped Sarah off at the airport, we were talking about how our pastor and his wife run together and had just finished a race that weekend at Disneyland. Nathan reiterated he thought it would be cool if we could do something like that and I agreed it would be fun to find a way to exercise together. Nathan said he would be willing to start slow and go short distances with me if I would really commit to it, so we grabbed our tennis shoes and decided to try it out. We ran half a mile into our neighborhood, then walked three-quarters of a mile back home. It wasn't a bad as I thought it was going to be, and we ended up going out again twice more that week. On the third day, I ran a full mile without stopping, something I never thought I could do. Since then, I've downloaded mapmyrun on my phone and we have plans of getting me some new running shoes soon. I bought my current ones in 2010...
So far, the furthest I have run is 1.5 miles and my fastest pace is 10:05 min/mile.
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