Group running

My friend C has been asking me for three weeks now to go run with her at a group running event here in town.  It's sponsored by the running group we're both a part of, and I had to say no the past two weeks because of my husband's work schedule.  Since he's off this week, I promised her I'd go this time, so off we went.  She brought along her two kids (4 & 2) in the jogging stroller, and I still had a heck of a time keeping up with her!  There were probably 40 people there for the run, and it wasn't a hard run at all - it was just hard for me because C was totally kicking my butt.  When I averaged our run time just now, I see that we were doing 8:45/mile, which is insane because my normal mile time is 9:30!  FAST.  Holy cow.  The best part was that there was a raffle at the end, and I won a 30 minutes massage!  I tried to give it to C to say thank you for bringing me but she wouldn't let me.  Oh well, I guess a massage couldn't hurt, right?  Lol.  I'll definitely have to do this again when it's warmer!