Start time: 6/17/2013, 5:46am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.2 miles
Average pace: 9:59min/mile
Total Miles For June: 47 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 311 miles
Current Shoes: 210 miles
In between Saturday and Monday’s run, I’d biked 22 miles on Sunday; not a huge amount, but the most I’ve done in about a year or so. Was definitely feeling it today. Humidity thick enough to have to drill tunnels through, probably not helping.
Start time: 6/12/2013, 5:45am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.2 miles
Average pace: 9:53min/mile
Total Miles For June: 31 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 295 miles
Current Shoes: 194 miles
Monday’s run got scratched due to torrential downpours… well, it wasn’t raining this morning but the humidity sure felt like it. Yay summer.
Start time: 6/1/2013, 7:00am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.37 miles
Average pace: 10:53min/mile
Total Miles For June: 6 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 270 miles
Current Shoes: 169 miles
After last Saturday’s bad run, I ended up skipping Monday’s… and then ended up needing to skip Wednesday’s too due to a hamstring issue that I think came from all of the hauling of stuff up and down the stairs on Monday. But we got back out there this morning; first really warm ‘n’ humid run that I’ve had all year. Definitely was dragging a bit between that and no exercise for a week. But back on the wagon, now!
Start time: 5/22/2013, 5:15pm
Location: TJ Community Center
Distance: 3 miles
Average pace: 9:14min/mile
Total Miles For May: 42 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 258 miles
Current Shoes: 157 miles
Start time: 5/25/2013, 7:00am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.2 miles
Average pace: 10:45min/mile
Total Miles For May: 48 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 264 miles
Current Shoes: 163 miles
Wed, 5/22: Missed a week’s worth of running between a houseguest and having some other issues. Finally got 3 miles in on the hated treadmill before spin class.
Sat, 5/25: Was supposed to run 8 but internal issues made me finally turn around early, as well as slow down a bit. Great company but lousy run.
Start time: 5/6/13, 5:46am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.25 miles
Average pace: 9:42min/mile
Total Miles For May: 24 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 240 miles
Current Shoes: 139 miles
A tiny bit creaky after Sunday’s run, but all in all, not too bad. (Bit breezy.)
Start time: 4/27/13, 7:00am
Location: National Mall, Mt. Vernon Trail, Georgetown
Distance: 9 miles
Average pace: 10:13min/mile
Total Miles For April: 66 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 212 miles
Current Shoes: 111 miles
Start time: 4/29/13, 5:46am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 9:48min/mile
Total Miles For April: 70 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 216 miles
Current Shoes: 115 miles
Start time: 5/1/13, 5:48am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.25 miles
Average pace: 9:09min/mile
Total Miles For May: 6 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 222 miles
Current Shoes: 121 miles
Start time: 5/3/13, 8:30am
Location: WSC Silver Spring
Distance: 3 miles
Average pace: 8:57min/mile
Total Miles For May: 9 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 225 miles
Current Shoes: 124 miles
Start time: 5/5/13, 8:00am
Location: National Mall, SW Waterfront, Tidal Basin, LBJ Park, Mt. Vernon Trail
Distance: 9.53 miles
Average pace: 9:46min/mile
Total Miles For May: 18 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 234 miles
Current Shoes: 133 miles
Saturday, 4/27: Nice jaunt over the bridge to Mt. Vernon Trail, then all the way up to Key Bridge and heading back via Rock Creek. The inevitable “we’re running down M Street faster than you can normally drive it” jokes were made.
Monday, 4/29: Wet and rainy and miserable, so much that there was a unanimous “I’m fine with cutting this run short” decision made by all three of us.
Wednesday, 5/1: Steve and I were clearly feeling a little zippy after Monday’s shortened run.
Friday, 5/3: Went to the gym before heading out of town and as part of the workout picked up three on the (ugh) treadmill.
Sunday, 5/5: Steve ended up having to miss Saturday’s run so we picked up a 9.5 miler together, which worked out really well. Had to adjust a few times to avoid the Race for Hope 5K course but that was part of the fun, just making up the route as we ran.
Phew!
Start time: 4/24/13, 5:50am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.25 miles
Average pace: 9:44min/mile
Total Miles For April: 57 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 203 miles
Current Shoes: 102 miles
Another cool morning, but not as much as Monday’s. Just me and Ben, and aside from a large platoon of Army soldiers exercising on the Mall, a fairly uneventful time.
Start time: 4/20/13, 7:00am
Location: National Mall, Bloomingdale, H Street, Navy Yard
Distance: 10.2 miles
Average pace: 10:23min/mile
Total Miles For April: 45 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 191 miles
Current Shoes: 90 miles
Start time: 4/22/13, 5:50am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.25 miles
Average pace: 9:39min/mile
Total Miles For April: 51 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 197 miles
Current Shoes: 96 miles
Saturday: Nice run all over DC; up to Bloomingdale, then over to the H Street Corridor, then through Navy Yard before heading back.
Monday: Temperature drop! Chillier run but a nice one overall.
Start time: 4/17/13, 5:50am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 9:42min/mile
Total Miles For April: 35 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 181 miles
Current Shoes: 80 miles
Ran with Ben this morning for the first half; would’ve had another half-mile with him but he wasn’t feeling well and walked the last portion of his fourth mile back in. Tacked on my 2 solo miles onto the back end of the run and they went well. It was very humid out and between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, the Mall was full of fog. A bit of a surprise! Then when I got back to my car, just as I was walking up to it, my friend Eric ran by and said hello (out for his own run). Too funny.
Clyde’s 10K
Start time: 4/14/13, 8:15am
Location: Columbia, MD
Distance: 10K (6.2 miles)
Finishing time: 55:28
Average pace: 8:57min/mile
Total Miles For April: 29 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 175 miles
Current Shoes: 74 miles
Hilly, hilly 10K up in Columbia. Lots of climbs that never seemed to quite balance out with downhill stretches, although I’m sure that’s all just in my head. Ran this race with Stephanie (who warned us about the hills) and Ben, and had a great time. Cool start, which was good; kept up with Stephanie until around mile 3.5, at which point she got ahead of me on a massive hill and I never quite caught her.
Good finishing time for me, though. My last two (and fastest two) 10Ks were 52:30 back in 2008, and 54:02 in 2010. Considering I was at my fastest overall in 2008, only an extra minute in a half for a hilly hilly course? I’m very pleased. After a couple of lackluster finishes at races recently, I feel like I did a good job here. Probably could have kicked it a little faster near the end, but no complaints.
