Last night Katie and I went to hit a group run at Texas Running Company. I don't really know what to say other than, I really miss my NYC training groups/friends. There were probably 8-10 people there for the run and one store employee (I won't call her a pacer, as she was just kind of there to run). I took the route for what it was, as I know there's no Central Park in north Austin. I'm sure the downtown locations of running stores provide something more similar to Central Park running. However, I was running pretty easy (I averaged 9 min miles for the first two miles) and I was still much faster than the closest person other than Katie. I don't mind running easy just to meet new people, but if I'm running easy and still leaving the group behind, the run is pretty worthless. I'll give the group another shot and see if anyone a little faster shows up, but if not, its not worth the time and gas to drive there. There are better routes I can run from the house.
After the "group" run, Katie and I still had about 2 more hours to knock out, so we went over to the Upper Bull Creek trails. While exploring one of the side trails, we came upon what in retrospect was most likely a fort build by some kids. However, when I stumbled upon it, I had a flashback to running up on a homeless encampment in Dallas. So when I almost ran into it, my first instinct was to turn around immediately. As we ran back down the trail Katie asked, "Was it a bum? Was it a dead body?"
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