Our final team run this morning was just 6 miles, and it started at the luxuriously late hour of 6:30am! I'd been hoping to run with my friend Ashley because her team was starting at the same time in the same place -- but, we were scheduled for different distances and thus different routes. So instead, I ran with one of the coaches whom I hadn't chatted with before, and the run went by pretty quickly. The quickness was both figurative and literal -- it didn't feel too grueling, and we kept up a brisk pace.

I had a number of lingering aches and pains on this run. My right ankle and hip barked a little bit throughout the run, and after the run my left knee was making its presence known too. So, even though it had been a short run, I took an ice bath afterward just to encourage the recovery process and give myself the best chance for a low-pain run on Race Day. I must be getting used to ice baths because this one wasn't particularly uncomfortable, in spite of being plenty cold. I'm going to keep icing the persistently sore spots (mainly the right ankle and left knee) a lot this week.

Tuesday evening, we'll have an informational meeting in which we'll receive the complete itinerary for next weekend and -- most importantly -- our purple race day jerseys! I'm excited to make a trip to the craft store so that I can get materials with which to decorate said jersey before we leave for SF.