Coincidence? I think not!

So this weekend has been great! Saturday after having just a great day and planning on going to the gym but not making it I texted Al at 8pm. Normally I would think about this idea all day long and debate it but it just came to me at 8 so I texted him and just asked what he was up too. Then I was kicking myself for putting it out there that I had nothing to do on a Saturday night. Well fortunately not too much time to worry about it he texted me back. Said he just went to dinner but just got home and was going to go running! Then he asked if I wanted to go too!!! Well I didn’t have to think twice about it so we met at our favorite place we call TTL 30 minutes later!

Another fantastic run this time we ran around the bigger part of the lake and THEN the mountain we love so much…not…well there is some love I guess, otherwise we wouldn’t keep running it right? So the total miles ran was 5 miles the pain was intense as was my breathing. Seriously this mountain goes straight up it is intense! Al is amazing he does not let me get away with slackin at all. He only keeps encouraging and helping me be better! He cracks me up we could be a ¼ of a mile away and he would say only 10 more feet. I would roll my eyes. When we got to the top I wanted ralph pretty bad it was, you guessed it…intense J Any ways this time we didn’t hike the rest of the way up but wnet and sat down at the lower out look it was so nice up there he pulled me close to him because he said I was warm. As we looed out to the city I rested my head on his shoulder. Sigh it was perfect…well almost ;)

Then we ran and hopped backward down the mountain (we had seen a dude hopping down backward on our way up and gave it a try! Fun). I was so beat. Last time when we got to the parking lot I said lets sprint and still had loads of energy to the car…this was not okay in Al’s mind so that is why we ran 2 more miles and then up the hardest part of the mountain this time and let me tell you I could not sprint at the end and I tried but muscles were tightening and I was in fear of a Charlie horse!

We ended up talking outside in the cold for another hour neither of us wanted to leave. I can confidently say that he didn’t either. When we finally had had enough of the cold he wrapped his arms around me and held me for long nice hug….sigh I wish it could have lasted forever.