Last night i went on the Wednesday "social" run at my local running Room, and really enjoyed it. Usually I seem to get stuck with mostly much younger runners, or all females, and their choice of conversational topics often won't include many things I am interested in. Last night was with a marathon training group, all men, all 55-62 years old, all with much more running knowledge/experience than I have. They had done hills the night before, so were cruising along comfortably, all of us in a tight group. Probably go again next week, maybe also for the long run on Sunday.

I just started a Running Room half-marathon clinic. It is okay, but I did find out that I am really slow. I find the group goes out too fast for me so I end up running alone a lot, although that seems to be changing. But I still can't run and talk at the same time at their pace so I just listen. I'm not sold on the group runs yet until I can pick up the pace a bit.