Category Archives: 06mi

Up the Hill Again

Start time: 1/31/12, 5:48am
Location: National Mall, Capitol Hill
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 9:51min/mile
Total Miles For January: 84 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 84 miles
Current Shoes: 117 miles

Rounded out January with one more run up and down Capitol Hill. Also realized I forgot to reset things like my auto-lap function every mile on the Garmin, but it didn’t run out of power 45 minutes in and did what it was told to, so no complaints, right?

Beats Me

Start time: 1/26/12, 5:46am
Location: National Mall
Distance: ~6.1 miles
Average pace: no idea
Total Miles For January: 70 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 70 miles
Current Shoes: 103 miles

Garmin battery died halfway through the run yesteday. Bah. Now having major issues with it getting recharged and following some advice from people on their forums (since this appears to be a known issue) but we shall see…

Bad Ice/Good Ice

Start time: 1/24/12, 5:46am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.25 miles
Average pace: 9:57min/mile
Total Miles For January: 64 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 64 miles
Current Shoes: 97 miles

Scrubbed Saturday’s run due to the ice/sleet, but happily it’s all gone now. Think I pulled a calf muscle today, though. Time for the good kind of ice.

Thursday Thursday

Start time: 1/19/12, 5:49am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.12 miles
Average pace: 10:57min/mile
Total Miles For January: 58 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 58 miles
Current Shoes: 91 miles

Another Tuesday run missed; this one because I was sick for Tuesday and Wednesday. Took it easy today just to play it safe (fortunately the bug appears to have passed), with just me and Ben out there. Winter sure is setting in now, too. Brrrr. Grabbed an extra layer in the form of a light jacket and I’m not sure I would have survived without it!

Generic Run

Start time: 1/12/12, 5:50am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.21 miles
Average pace: 9:56min/mile
Total Miles For January: 34 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 34 miles
Current Shoes: 67 miles

Running + Old Ladies

Start time: 1/5/12, 5:48am
Location: National Mall, Capitol Hill
Distance: 6.31 miles
Average pace: 10:03min/mile
Total Miles For January: 12 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 12 miles
Current Shoes: 45 miles

Mostly an un-noteworthy run (well, we did add on Capitol Hill), except for the very end, but I detailed that elsewhere. (But in short, run came a tiny bit short to help a little old lady acros the street. And then some.)

Breezy New Year

Start time: 1/3/12, 5:48am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.24 miles
Average pace: 9:44min/mile
Total Miles For January: 6 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 6 miles
Current Shoes: 39 miles

Sadly, there is not an “easy” missing in the subject line here. Breezy this time equalled a very cold and bitter wind blowing towards the east. So half of our run was frigid, the other half actually wasn’t that bad. But even though after my run involved driving to the gym, changing clothes, and rowing for 45 minutes, I still had “cold red belly” syndrome when I was done. Brrrrr!

Winding down the year

Start time: 12/29/11, 5:48am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.18 miles
Average pace: 9:39min/mile
Total Miles For December: 86 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 730 miles
Current Shoes: 20 miles

Last weekday run for the year; a slightly colder than normal morning. I guess winter is finally arriving, drat.

Back to Normal

Start time: 12/27/11, 5:48am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.20 miles
Average pace: 9:49min/mile
Total Miles For December: 80 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 724 miles
Current Shoes: 14 miles

Knee is back to normal. Yay!

Warm Winter

Start time: 12/22/11, 5:46am
Location: National Mall, Capitol Hill
Distance: 6.3 miles
Average pace: 9:53min/mile
Total Miles For December: 66 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 710 miles
Current Shoes: 251 miles

Detoured a bit and ran up and down Capitol Hill for part of the run on Thursday. And, unlike Tuesday, I was dressed for the weather a bit better. (Shorts and a single, loose, long-sleeve shirt.) Much more comfortable. Knee bugged me a tiny bit; time to replace shoes or not enough stretching? Well, I’ve already got the new shoes on deck, so…