Ouch. That was painful.

I set out today after battling the stupid adware virus on my machine for a second full day. I needed to destress.

So I started out at 8:10 AM with a goal of running for 2 hours and 30 minutes. That should put me between 13-14 miles if I run the whole thing.

Candy called early on to say she couldn’t meet me, but May was going to meet me at Goose Gossage around 8:45 AM. I was going to be late getting there, but she could run south until she caught up with me.

So the first hour or so was fine. I took it slow. May caught up with me around 50 minutes. It was nice to have her company. We were at a good pace that we could both converse as we ran. After running for 1:22 heading north, we turned around and started running back towards my car. Which was okay. Although it was tempting to want to stop at May’s car and drive over to mine. I was definitely feeling it after 1:45. By 2 hours, I was doing everything I could not to just stop and walk. We reached the bridge near the railroad tracks at the north end of Monument Valley Park and slowed to a walk. It was 2:12. I said, well, I should at least run 3 more minutes until I reach 2:15 for a round number. We ran for 3 more minutes and then walked the rest of the way to the car. In total, I was on my feet for 2:41.

We stretched a bit, got in the car and headed downtown. We dropped off our climbing shoes for repair at Mt. Chalet Then we took a quick ride to Panino’s for lunch, gritty and dehydrated.

After lunch, I dropped May off and went over to Tech for Less to pick up an external hard drive to back up my data so I can wipe my machine clean and start over.

That’s what I’m working on now. Sigh. It’s been almost 2 hours and I’m still backing up data.