Friday evening a friend of mine Mark Bradley Shoup had an art opening at the Tanner Hill Gallery on Broad Street in South Chattanooga. This is a very nice gallery in a great location. I ran into a number of my friends there and I drank a bit to much free wine but enjoyed a great dinner at the St. John’s Meeting Place afterwards.
Saturday I went over to the river walk in between rain storms and ran 5 miles. I love running on the River Walk in the rain for 2 reasons, first there are no people there and second there are no major hills. During this rainy run I passed about 5 people. The great news for me during this run was that I upped my usual slow running pace by about 1 minute per mile. I came in on this run at a few seconds over 50 minutes for 5 miles which almost cuts 5 minutes off my average times at this distance. This is good news as far as my 1/2 marathon is concerned. I still will not be running the entire distance but my plan is to run 5 miles walk 3 and then run out the remaining 5.1 miles to the finish line.
Sunday I went to the theater and saw the Grindhouse double feature. The length of the film was a bit much as my ass was hurting by the end but the films were campy and amusing and it was nice to get 2 for the price of one.