Notes
Long run with a group and in overcast, <70 temps? Hell yes.
1 problem, I was suppose to meet people at 7 but I woke up at 6:59. Apparently I haven't used an alarm in a few weeks and the vibration wasn't enough to wake me up. I quickly got dressed, saw a text that the group would be late, sent one myself, then rushed out the door. This was definitely the quickest I've ran out the door in the morning. The group was meeting less than a mile away and I made it there about 7:07 (including a less-than-pretty piss on a residential fence). Once there, people were standing around, but they were also waiting for someone else to finish in the bathroom... so I guess it wasn't so bad.
Some of the group had been running already, so the pace was already around 7 and we quickly started dropping it, with several miles under 6:30. I was feeling good so I was happy to roll along. But apparently this plan included an end to this pace around 9 miles (for me) as we entered downtown. We also stopped at the Y for a bathroom and water break (btw, how I made it 9 miles into a run without needing a real bathroom stop, I have no idea).
The next few miles were not so nice; I had been feeling good but now we were going uphill and into the wind. But after a few miles of this, I started to feel better again and cruised the last mile alone back to my place. Nice to get a long run in as I haven't done one in August, and even better to have a group.