Notes
Met up with Adam Best, he's a '14 Wartburg grad I'd known was in Des Moines but just found out we worked for the same company, and he was actually taking training in my office this week. From what I gather, he improved a lot in college to run 15:00 and 31:30, which I was surprised at, but it makes sense that he would be overshadowed as there were many fast times those years in the IIAC and he never placed high. But he slowed his training considerably after college and now runs quite a bit slower.
The run was good, we started with just a 5k loop (at Raccoon River, has crushed limestone paths!), and I was worried that was all he wanted, but we ended up doing 9. Hopefully I didn't force the distance as he just did a half marathon 2 days ago.
Not sure how often we'll try to run together, he lives and works in West Des Moines and leaves work later than I do. He also mentioned running in the morning during the summer (which I will do some, but not driving out to WDM for it). We'll see.