Start time: 5/15/2016, 7:22 am
Location: National Mall, Rock Creek Park, National Zoo
Distance: 10 miles
Average pace: 10:20 min/mile
Total Miles For May: 45 miles
Total Miles For 2016: 365 miles
Current Shoes: 45 miles
Back to the Zoo, finally! We had to start a tiny bit later than normal in order to accomodate the new, later opening hours, but the timing worked out quite well.
Start time: 4/23/2016, 7:00 am
Location: National Mall, Shaw, Howard University, LeDroit Park, Capitol Hill
Distance: 10 miles
Average pace: 10:21 min/mile
Total Miles For April: 49 miles
Total Miles For 2016: 296 miles
Current Shoes: 423 miles
Dodged some incoming rain with Armand and Ben; ended up just doing ye olde Shaw/Howard route for the first 6, then headed onto Capitol Hill w/ Armand for the back 4. A tiny bit of a sprinkle showed up around the 9 mile point, but all in all no complaints.
Start time: 3/26/2016, 7:10 am
Location: National Mall, Howard University, Capitol Hill
Distance: 10.2 miles
Average pace: 10:32 min/mile
Total Miles For March: 87 miles
Total Miles For 2016: 240 miles
Current Shoes: 367 miles
Start time: 3/19/2016, 7:07 am
Location: National Mall, Tidal Basin, Georgetown Waterfront
Distance: 10.23 miles
Average pace: 10:12 min/mile
Total Miles For March: 63 miles
Total Miles For 2016: 216 miles
Current Shoes: 343 miles
Just me, John, and Armand; the latter member had a request to see if the cherry blossoms had bloomed down by the Tidal Basin. As it turned out while they were just starting to come out, we weren’t at peak bloom, but that also meant less tourists, so it worked well in the end.
Start time: 2/20/2016, 7:07 am
Location: National Mall, SW Waterfront
Distance: 10.05 miles
Average pace: 10:13 min/mile
Total Miles For February: 37 miles
Total Miles For 2016: 37 miles
Current Shoes: 247 miles
Finally back to a Saturday morning run! Ran 10 miles total; 6 with Stephanie, 8 with Ben, 10 with Steve. The war of attrition is real, it seems. It was good to get double digits under my belt again. Next Saturday will most likely be 12 as a gearing up for a half marathon two weeks later.
Start time: 1/9/2016, 7:00am
Location: National Mall, Howard University, Navy Yard
Distance: 10.14 miles
Average pace: 10:19 min/mile
Total Miles For January: 26 miles
Total Miles For 2016: 26 miles
Current Shoes: 153 miles
Nothing much to report, save that it’s back to the 10-miler weekend base. We’ll probably shift up to the 12-14 range next month as the half marathon gets closer.
Start time: 11/28/2015, 7:07am
Location: Columbia MD
Distance: 10.11 miles
Average pace: 10:35 min/mile
Total Miles For November: 100 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 783 miles
Current Shoes: 64 miles
Stephanie and Armand were the only others in town, so I headed up to their neck of the woods for a (thankfully not too hilly) romp through Columbia.
Start time: 11/21/2015, 7:33am
Location: National Zoo, Rock Creek Park, Dupont Circle
Distance: 10 miles
Average pace: 10:02 min/mile
Total Miles For November: 69 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 752 miles
Current Shoes: 40 miles
Bad news: Really late start due to construction traffic.
Good news: Decided to hit the Zoo again and did the dreaded/infamous “reverse Zoo route.” Much better this time thanks to cooler temperatures, and we ended up with a faster pace than the previous Saturday to boot.
Start time: 11/14/2015, 7:08am
Location: National Zoo, Rock Creek Park, Dupont Circle
Distance: 10 miles
Average pace: 10:20 min/mile
Total Miles For November: 45 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 728 miles
Current Shoes: 16 miles
With the Zoo’s hours changing soon, we decided to pick up a Zoo route while we still could do so easily.
Start time: 10/24/2015, 7:00 am
Location: SW Waterfront, Navy Yard, Anacostia Riverwalk, RFK Stadium, H Street
Distance: 10 miles
Average pace: 10:30 min/mile
Total Miles For October: 60 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 662 miles
Current Shoes: 355 miles
A bit of dodging the Marine Corps Marathon/10K areas (which aren’t until Sunday but the setup had begun and fences were going up), plus the AIDSWalk 5K that was going on.