Notes
Decided to join a group run this morning, a trail run where 8 people showed up. I was new along with a woman who was looking into a trail race next weekend but had never ran on trails before. We started uphill behind the leader and I was expecting that to be the status quo, but then he stepped off the trail and let the new woman take the pace. And she just took off. I stayed back back for a minute, unsure of what to do, but even dawdling I was dropping the rest of the crew. So I decided to catch up to make sure this person doesn't get lost and to see if they are good or just inexperienced.
Turns out she was good, college runner and ran a 2:44 marathon 2 weeks ago. She took to the trails well but you could tell she was a road runner. We switched to me leading halfway and even that was a whole new experience. I tried to teach a few things (probably mansplaining) and I'm glad she never fell on my watch.
Best part was she had told me of some other training partners that will hopefully get me into some more group runs.