The Philadelphia Distance Run (PDR in case you couldn’t guess) is in two weeks. I went for 12.3 on Sunday. It was not pretty. I would like to cover another 3/4 mile in about 10 minutes less. Running by myself won’t cut it. I’ll need to rely on the kindness of others to run with. I know I could try latching onto a group, but that generally doesn’t work for me. There’s usually a very loose cohesiveness and after a while, the group blows apart. Or I just wind up drifting far enough off the back that it appears to blow up. I haven’t raced in a group of strangers for years. I’m not fast enough to stay with faster people and apparently just a little too fast for others to hang on. Sort of like the way I drive, just with less cursing.