Category Archives: 06mi

Thursday + Saturday

05mi, 06mi

Start time: 9/13/12, 5:47am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 9:33min/mile
Total Miles For September: 24 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 354 miles
Current Shoes: 149 miles

Could have sworn I posted this already but I guess not. Anyway, fantastic run. Best in a very long time. Just me and Steve and even with some walk breaks I feel like we were moving at a nice clip but without much effort. More like that please.

Start time: 9/15/12, 10:54am
Location: Takoma, Silver Spring
Distance: 5 miles
Average pace: 9:25min/mile
Total Miles For September: 29 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 359 miles
Current Shoes: 154 miles

Late start due to a Friday night concert that ran three hours (but go Bruce!). A little warmer than I’d have liked but not bad; part of it was my potential bicycle route to the WSC in Silver Spring, which worked easily.

Back w/ the group

06mi

Start time: 7/21/12, 6:02am
Location: National Mall, SW Waterfront, Navy Yard
Distance: 6.15 miles
Average pace: 10:29min/mile
Total Miles For July: 32 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 296 miles
Current Shoes: 91 miles

Ok, technically I wasn’t supposed to be up to 6 miles. But considering the recovery schedule started with pauses and then worked up to times without pauses, I decided a 6-miler was ok if they had walk breaks. All went well, aside from the rain, but we all agreed we’d take a cool rain over ice, snow, or 100+ degree weather. (But it sure would’ve been nice to have been sans rain!)

Return of the Steve

06mi

Start time: 3/8/12, 5:46am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.15 miles
Average pace: 9:46min/mile
Total Miles For March: 28 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 216 miles
Current Shoes: 12 miles

After multiple work trips plus a thrown out back, Steve was back this week, along with Ben. Was a pleasure to see him again.

Back in the ‘hood

06mi, new shoes

Start time: 3/6/12, 6:10am
Location: North Arlington
Distance: 6.5 miles
Average pace: 9:05min/mile
Total Miles For March: 22 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 210 miles
Current Shoes: 6 miles

It was just me this morning, so I decided that since I wanted to hit the gym anyway, I’d just drive there and run through (more or less) my old route in the Ballston/Clarendon/Court House neighborhood of Arlington. It was a lot of fun to see the old sights again, as well as to see just how much new stuff’s gone into Clarendon in my absence. Some hills had me huffing and puffing as much as before, and all in all it was a pleasant experience to head back through there for a change. Plus, new shoes. (Time to restart the clock!) The springiness in them compared to the old ones is startling.

Spring?

06mi

Start time: 3/1/12, 5:50am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.42 miles
Average pace: 9:50min/mile
Total Miles For March: 6 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 194 miles
Current Shoes: 227 miles

Shorts again! I sure could get used to this whole “spring weather” thing.

Oh Treadmill My Treadmill

02mi, 06mi, 08mi, travel, treadmill

Start time: 2/16/12, 6:30am
Location: LAX Mariott Treadmill
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 8:57min/mile
Total Miles For February: 64 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 148 miles
Current Shoes: 181 miles

Start time: 2/18/12, 7:30am
Location: LAX Mariott Treadmill
Distance: 6 miles & 2 miles
Average pace: 8:42min/mile & 7:38min/mile (8:26 overall)
Total Miles For February: 72 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 156 miles
Current Shoes: 189 miles

Oops, time to catch up… was in LA for a convention for the second half of last week, so ended up using the hotel treadmill twice. For Saturday’s run the plan was 8 miles, but I was getting bored with the treadmill and when I hit 6 miles (since the treadmill automatically shuts down at an hour) I figured, “Oh, good enough” and started the cooldown function. Then after about three minutes I thought, “Wait, I should really do the last two miles.” So I turned it off, ran two more, and called it a day. I never really trust a treadmill’s readings, but I was definitely working on my pace for that 8-miler.

Last Before Vacation

06mi

Start time: 2/14/12, 5:50am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.35 miles
Average pace: 10:26min/mile
Total Miles For February: 58 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 142 miles
Current Shoes: 175 miles

Sort of last track of my run at the end when I was by myself and did a bit of moseying before I snapped out of it, but not a bad one. Will probably run while on vacation, but how much and where is still TBD.

Unremarkable

06mi

Start time: 2/9/12, 5:47am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.36 miles
Average pace: 10:01min/mile
Total Miles For February: 38 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 122 miles
Current Shoes: 155 miles

John was back (yay!), but otherwise an unremarkable run.

Creakily Yours

06mi

Start time: 2/7/12, 5:50am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.14 miles
Average pace: 10:19min/mile
Total Miles For February: 32 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 116 miles
Current Shoes: 149 miles

Ran with Ben this morning and it wasn’t bad, but I was definitely feeling Saturday’s run in the second half. Oof. I cut back on today’s rowing, so that’s something.

Shorts!

06mi

Start time: 2/2/12, 5:52am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.2 miles
Average pace: 10:23min/mile
Total Miles For February: 6 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 90 miles
Current Shoes: 123 miles

A little pokey this morning, but it was also the second day of February and I got to wear shorts for a 6am run. No complaints here.