Hanging with the Locals

I've been finding more ways to hang out with the locals of Adelaide lately so that's been pretty exciting! Wednesday night I went to my first running club run. I walked into this room at a little elementary school about 2 km from Tyler's and there were like 40 people in there! It was crazy! A few of them were walkers and then some people were doing a 14 k run and some were doing an 8 k run. I just wanted to do the 8k so they pointed me in the direction of people doing that and then we all started running. People were super friendly. Somehow I eventually ended up running with some older folks who definitely still gave me a really good workout. Rose was like 60 and Dave was like 75 - haha! They were quick though. And then Dave invited me to come back on Thursday night for more of a track workout type run with a different group that he belongs to. I told him I would so I met back up again last night and he directed me to the younger person's room (being from like teenagers - 40ish). The 5 girls started with a 5 k "warmup" - haha! After that - I could have stopped. It was the fastest warmup I've done in awhile. We were probably going faster than 8 min miles for the whole distance. Then we met up with the guys (about 10-15 guys) and started doing a track workout of repeat 200s with about a 30 sec break between each. The coach reminded me of Mr. Collyard in high school. He was super friendly but you could tell he was also a bit strict too. He only wanted me to do 10 200s because otherwise I might hurt something - haha - and he wanted to make sure I would come back next time too. After all that - I was totally DEAD. THEN we did another 3k-ish cooldown at about an 8 min mile pace - THEN - I still had to run home. It was 7 pm and that's about the time that Tyler gets home so I didn't want to keep him waiting so I had to RUN the whole way home - I was practically crawling by the time I got to the door - haha! It was really fun though and everyone was super friendly, coming up and introducing themselves to me and telling me to come back next week (They meet Tues and Thurs) - so that was awesome!!!
Then then - this morning, Sandra and I went for a 32 k bike ride along the local river bike trail which was really cool and very pretty too! It was fun! :)