Little encouragements from a little person

I had a lovely slow and gentle marathon training run tonight with my wife (she's the little person at just over 5ft) and arrived home very encouraged. You see, its a route I run regularly but nearly always I'm trying to push my time ...and so its painful. Tonight I just wanted to run at the same (slow) pace as my wife and as a result I really enjoyed the jog and was able to look at things as I passed them en route. Sometimes its good to just enjoy running! I think I remember starting it for that reason a number of years ago! But that was before I got competitive. Hmmm.