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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
I'm nervous about the running group meeting
I've been a member of my local running group for about a year, mostly for the informational emails, race camaraderie, and such but I haven't been to a meeting. They don't meet usually other than training runs.
I'm not a super fast runner and I really have no idea what to expect from the meeting. I'm hoping I meet people who run at similar pace. (It is informational about different events, planning, etc.)
Proud Mom:
Madilyn Louise 9/19/06 and Sophia Christina 12/16/08
Re: I'm nervous about the running group meeting
I was nervous about running with a group but now 5 years later I'm so glad I did it. In my group we did a "trial" run for a mile then we got broken up in to pace groups. The best part about meeting new runners is theres already that something to talk about, RUNNING! Do it!
I was SUPER nervous about my first week with the running group. However, they were amazing. There are about 150 active members and 50-100 show up weekly. The noticed immediately that I was new, came over and said hi, asked about what I'm training for, what distance I'm planning on running, speed, and hooked me up with a few others that are near the same plan I was. I ran with the longest distance group (I was planning on 12, they were planning on 16), and when we got to the 6 mile turnaround, they linked me up with someone new to run back with, so I was never alone.
I've met some friends there, as we've tailored our running plans to our current fitness and our goals. We now meet at least one extra day a week and run together, often meeting up with other people from the group. Every week it does sort of start off as one bit group, that continuously splits up into faster, slower, longer, shorter, walk/ run, etc. You will get to know the other's who are at your level.
And runners like to talk about running, other races you've done, what you'd like to do, etc. It's been a great motivator and I've dropped over a full minute per mile off my time sine running with them.