My Run last night, WOW!

How can I start this Blog?  Well, for starters I learned two important things, one is to never and I mean never run with my I phone in my pocket and secondly get insurance on my new I phone! Yesterday I decided to Run in the evening with a group called The York Road Runners, sounds good and it was, but not without some glitches.

I left work and headed in to York city where they meet, I got there way early, which is not typical for me.  I used Tom's bathroom to get changed, they probably wondered what is this old homeless lady doing!  Went out to wait for the group, it almost seemed like it was forever.  I was very nervous to run with people I don't even know,  never met.  I thought it was 5:15, so, here it is 5:15 and a small group of ladies arrive, three to be exact.  these ladies are dressed in their sporty running attire.  I introduce myself and I got the snub.  The group says to me you should wait for the later group because we run very fast and you probably can not keep up, huh...  OK, when is the next group coming?  They tell me it is at 5:30.  They say we run at a 8-7 min mile and off they go.  Talk about feeling like I'm back in High School were the Geeky girl gets left alone.

Here I am waiting around in this parking lot for the next group.  It is cold and I'm getting more nervous to run especially after that encounter with the "FAST" group. By the way how did they know how fast I run?  People start to arrive, their is one young guy that is there that kinda runs the group.  He is very nice and says they will not let me in the dust!  ahhhhh...  That made me feel better.  This group of runners seemed very nice and welcoming to a newbie, esp a new beginner.  You could tell this group of runners were probably fast just from how in shape they were.  They introduced themselves as did I.

Off we go!  The run goes into the City of York.  It is starting to get dark, we all have some kind of light on our body. The coldness that I felt earlier was gone, I was now Hot.  We were running at about a 10 min mile!  That's good for me because I am just getting back in the groove after taking a break for a month or two.  I'm running keeping up but my shoes keep coming untied, finally I tie them both in double knots.  That seemed to solve that. This put me behind everyone else, but this one lady named Kim waited for me.  We had a really good run and talk.  the talking made the run go so much faster!  All of a sudden we are back at where we started,  I go to get in my car, oh no, I have no cell phone!  Keys?????  What to do now?  I start to walk looking for them, but no luck.  I see in this little cafe two police officers.  In I go to ask them if they can GPS my cell phone.  their answer is no. not without a search warrant.  they were very nice and helpful, they had me sit down with them as the one drove down the alley where we last ran to look for my stuff.  The other officer called Verizon to see if they could help.  The answer after wasting time talking with Verizon was no.  They could not be of any help.  They did mention an app. for the I phone that helps you locate your phone,  I will be getting that.  The other police officer returned, no luck!

As I am running out of options the friend I just met comes in the cafe and asks if I would like to run back the way we just ran to look for my phone.  Yes, yes, yes!  I was so happy she offered.  Off we went back into the city, by now it was getting pretty late.  I was so upset at this point I just ran and did not think about running more miles or how cold it had become.  Kim had a flashlight we ran and looked, ran and looked.  After about one and a half miles of running back where we had been, the flashlight shines on something glittery.  It was my I phone!  The glittery pink case was on the back road just laying there.  I was the happiest girl.  I could not thank Kim enough.Thanks so much to my new running partner for helping me find my stuff.  I know for sure without Kim I would not have found anything.  We ran back to our cars, I never hung on to that phone so tight.  I just bought the phone about two weeks ago.  The Ironic thing is I also bought my youngest daughter, Alyssa one and told her Do not lose this phone!  Back at our vehicles.  I thanked her again and again,  we will run again next Wednesday I will be sure to bring her something as a way to say thanks.  The run turned into a much longer run than expected, but it all turned out good.  Thanks to a good person.

Several lessons learned.  I will never and I mean never put things in my pockets if the pockets do not zipper.  Get insurance on mine and Alyssa's new I phones, last but not least continue to run and get faster than those three ladies that ditched me in the beginning of this running journey.  So the running journey continues!

I decided to go for a little run. - Forrest Gump