In week 2, our target mileage is still just 12-15 miles, with no actual speed work to speak of. The Tuesday workout, like last week's, consisted of a 1-mile warm up and 2 easy miles. The difference now being that we know how fast those miles are supposed to be. I get to run at a mercifully slow pace that makes adding miles relatively painless.
Wednesday was a 2-mile run, though as I look at the training schedule now, I think it's a typo. In any case, that's what I ran (easy to map beforehand with the already indispensible Gmaps Pedometer hack).
I was supposed to run 3.5 miles the next day, but M- and I made dinner for friends on Wednesday after the boys left, and for some reason half a bottle of wine (okay, and one or two Limoncello) put me out of commission on Thursday. But Friday I almost made up for it with 2 miles. O well.
Saturday was our first actual long run as a group, with all of us (and it is a lot of us) convening at Ken-Gar in Rock Creek Park, a gorgeous place to run. 
Some folks were going 12 miles, but we Reds were let off easy at 4.5. If you park at the Recreation Center on Beach Drive, just north of the Strathmore Avenue/Knowles Avenue intersection, then it's a 4.5 mile run on the bike path, south to Cedar and back up. You're surrounded by awesomely tall trees and running along the creek much of the time, and you pass by playgrounds and great picnic sites and lots of cute dogs and their owners and, if you're lucky, a big magnificent deer.
I haven't been diligent about stretching this week, or practicing yoga or getting to class, and my increased food intake is slightly out of proportion to my increased exertion, and I usually have to nap on my run days, BUT... the runs are already getting a little easier. And I figure I have some time to tweak the rest.
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