Today one of my favorite training partners EVER paid a visit to good old Golden.  Erica and I both ran the 800m at BU.  It’s a lonely distance, we weren’t sprinters and we weren’t distance runners.  Most 800 runners come down from the mile or up from the 400, but we just ran the 8.  Erica is super speedy and she would crank out our 200 repeats, and I was more into the 400 and up repeats, so it worked perfectly.  Until I got mono, then she got mono, then I got injured, and she graduated.  Still though, when we were both “on” it was a beautiful thing, though those days were few and far between (much to the chagrin of our coach…whose patience I can now appreciate.  ..I once argued that it was silly for me to run more than 5 miles in training.  hahahaha!)

Erica, me (+ Marisa!) cheering on Jordan - Marathon Monday 2005. Yes, our shirts read "Jordan is my homeboy"

Erica and her boyfriend, Stephen, started Brooklyn Brew Shop last July and have had a lot of success in selling their compact brewing kits online and at markets in NYC.  They came out to Colorado on a business trip to tour around all of the state’s breweries. It was great to talk with them about the frustrations and triumphs of starting a new company and growing from the ground up.  Who would have thought selling skis and brewing kits could share so many similarities?  I had so much fun showing them our operation and swapping small business secrets and stories, it was sad to see them go and made me realize how much I miss running in an endless amount of 200m loops with her on BU’s indoor track.

It’s also looking like I’ll have a different former teammate from BU joining me in Colorado by mid-summer.  I won’t mention names until it’s official, but I will mention that she is one of the nastiest runners I know and though she doesn’t know it now, she’ll be joining me on Sunday long runs every week.  ;-)

The mystery runner logging some miles with me at Waterton Canyon last year.

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