All sorts of challenges on today's run. I hit the start on the Garmin as we pulled off.. but it seems the watch has a "power save" mode.. so I when I hit start all I did was wake it up from its nice little nappy. About a half mile later I hit start again. Oh well. I purposely was going to hang with the back of the pack on today's run. I think the others are speeding along way too quickly this early in the season. Lots of newbies will sadly find out the hard way. Also my splits are all jacked up due to this Garmin not set for "auto pause" so some of my mile splits are skewed because of the stops. We managed to hit the same stop 3 different times. That was nice. About the 4.5 mile mark we turn left on Tredegar following Greg. Greg started the run with us so I thought it was safe to assume he was going the full 12 miles. About a mile later.. something seemed off because I couldn't see any other Black team members even in sight so I asked Greg if he was running 12 miles. He said "I don't know.. im just following the pack." For me this was "bizarro world" because Im so used to him knowing exactly when and where the special team turns are. At this point.. I knew we were way off course. Greg continues onward and runs the 8 with the rest of the normal teams. Me, Yob & Moreland decide to loop back and do a lap on Browns Island and then just wing the rest. We get over the bridges and onto the island and Steve says.. I have to take a piss. Yall go right,.. he will go left and we will meet back up in the middle. Only problem is Chris and myself never see Steve again. We hang around for a bit and then finally decide to just head back to the stadium with just 2 of us. We somehow lost poor Steve. Back at the stadium as we are about to send Peter out to look for Steve.. Steve comes running. He somehow managed to sprain his ankle and was probably lying on the ground as Chris and I chit chatted right on by him. oops. Luckily Steve was able to stretch out the ankle and finish the run. Splits (8:09, 8:13, 8:06, 9:24, 7:57, 9:45, 9:03, 9:57, 8:46, 8:02, 7:54, 8:01) So the splits were all over the place but that was due to me not stopping the watch at the various stoppages on the route. Oh well. A new device comes with a learning curve. I felt solid and ran well within myself over the entire duration of the run. Need to do this type of run more often. Group lunch at Kitchen 64 afterwards. Party of 19 with 19 individual checks. Oh boy!! I totally felt sorry for the waitress. A great run and a great bunch. An awesome start to my weekend. Crash | 