Last night Nick and I went to a friend’s house for Game Night: a semi-regular fall/winter gathering where a group of us get drunk, smoke things, play board games, eat like pigs and have a great time.

The fun continued today when I went on a run with Audra, my Steamtown marathon buddy who’s in town for the weekend with her girlfriend.  Audra’s doing the NY Marathon next week (to get that BQ she so deserves!) so today was a recovery for her – 4 easy miles on this gorgeous Fall afternoon day.  It’s such a pleasure to hang with her, seems like we’ve known each other forever and her girlfriend is just as cool so it was mucho fun.

After we parted, I continued on and ran into my local forum friend Joe, who is the nicest, speediest cute guy (going for sub-3:00 in Philly this month!) and was doing 22-23 today, but stopped long enough to give me a hug and some sugar which put me in an even better mood.

Then I ran into Kev, who heads the Philly Runners Club – and while I haven’t run with the club, I ran a mile trial he put on in April and have seen him at other races, so I know him enough to get a nice high-5 from him and some funny words that kept me chuckling as I ran on.

After all was said I done, I got in 8.75 miles plus a natural trip to Happy Land thanks to all the chats, smiles and friendliness along the way.  Talk about a great way to end the week.

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