I don’t know why or how, but things have gotten better.

After two days of hobbling about, I was a bit hesitant to pull on the sneaks for my scheduled Monday run. All the same, run number two seemed a little early to start falling behind schedule. So after a day that started at four in the morning and included a career-day style trip to Portland, I suited up and headed out.

As fortune had it my friend Ty has decided that now is a great time to get in better shape, so he volunteered to come along. I was concerned about keeping up with him – Ty being quite a bit taller than me. But as it turns out, being tall makes you heavier and being heavier makes running harder, so I more or less did just fine.

The best part was we settled on a slow, steady pace, and for the first time I understood what everyone has been saying about “running at a conversation pace.” We managed to talk for the entire forty minutes of running.

Actually, the best part was that we ended our run by meeting up with Nopporn and getting in a hot tub. But, dare I say it? This run was kind of… fun.