2.56 miles in 31'14"

my wife needed to run her second week-nine workout tonight, so we took a loop around town. we ran without mp3 players and kept track of our time with a stopwatch. we encountered one loose dog along the way, but it didn't bother us in the least. toward the end, i we took a two-block detour because i thought we needed a bit more distance to avoid returning to our starting point before 30 minutes were up. i was wrong. we ended up running a little beyond the time required. my wife's performance is pretty amazing. before june of this year she'd never really run any distance at all. now she's covering two and a half miles. at the end of october she'll run that 5K without breaking a sweat. i'm proud of her.