Category Archives: 06mi

I Hate You, Treadmill

06mi, treadmill

Start time: 1/22/2015, 8:15pm
Location: WSC Silver Spring
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 9:36 min/mile
Total Miles For January: 39 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 39 miles
Current Shoes: 134 miles

Had to take a week off to let the end result of a little medical procedure heal up enough, but hoofed it on the dreaded treadmill for 6 miles to get back into the swing of things. I should have just run outside right after work, but in case there were any problems the treadmill seemed like the wiser option.

Blustery Day

06mi

Start time: 12/11/2014, 5:40am
Location: National Mall, Capitol Hill
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 10:16 min/mile
Total Miles For December: 24 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 776 miles
Current Shoes: 51 miles

Finally an outside weekday run! (I feel like it’s been a while.) A little windy, but that actually helped the glasses from fogging up too much. I was a little tired before we even began, though, so I snipped off my solo extra mile (plus) at the end.

Catching Up 3 of 3

06mi, 08mi, new shoes, treadmill

Start time: 11/18/2014, 4:50pm
Location: WSC Silver Spring
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 9:24 min/mile
Total Miles For November: 48 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 724 miles
Current Shoes: 281 miles

Start time: 11/22/2014, 7:06am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 8 miles
Average pace: 10:21 min/mile
Total Miles For November: 56 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 732 miles
Current Shoes: 8 miles

11/18: Bitter cold out and so I ran on a treadmill at WSC. Cut it a tiny bit short because I wasn’t feeling well… which turned out to be food poisoning preparing to kick into high gear. Oh boy!

11/22: Small group, just me and John and Jerry. No one was feeling particularly clever so just an out-and-back on a windy morning.

Catching Up

06mi, 07mi

Start time: 10/9/2014, 5:35am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.15 miles
Average pace: 10:47 min/mile
Total Miles For October: 11 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 617 miles
Current Shoes: 174 miles

Start time: 10/14/2014, 5:38am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.29 miles
Average pace: 10:14 min/mile
Total Miles For October: 18 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 624 miles
Current Shoes: 181 miles

Start time: 10/16/2014, 5:38am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.23 miles
Average pace: 9:50 min/mile
Total Miles For October: 25 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 631 miles
Current Shoes: 188 miles

Had a little inadvertent time off due to a cold, alas.

Blinky Blink

06mi

Start time: 9/29/2014, 5:37am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.09 miles
Average pace: 10:29 min/mile
Total Miles For September: 55 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 606 miles
Current Shoes: 163 miles

I have a light-up snap bracelet that I wear in the darker mornings, when I’m running by myself before meeting my running buddies. It has three modes; continually lit, blinking, and off. Every time you press the button on it, it shifts to the next mode. While running my first two miles, I had it on continually lit. Near the end of that time, I noticed it was blinking. “Hmmm,” I thought, “I must have accidentally hit the button.” I pressed it twice more and put it back to solid.

Later on the run, it was blinking again. By that point it was light enough out that I just turned it off. When I got back to the car… it was lit up again. And wouldn’t turn off, or even into blinking mode. When I got to the gym (to take a shower), it was still lit up and refused to change. Upon leaving the gym… it was off. And completely dead.

And to think, just yesterday I had said, “Oh good, I didn’t need to replace it this year like I did last fall.” Oops!

Travel and Treadmills

06mi, travel, treadmill

Start time: 9/16/2014 & 9/18/2014, 6:00am
Location: Nameless Facility Gym
Distance: 6.4 miles x2
Average pace: 9:23 min/mile
Total Miles For September: 22 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 573 miles
Current Shoes: 130 miles

I was on a business trip this week, one in a secure location which limited where I could and could not run. To top it off, it was on a mountain and which was not meant for people to walk from place to place. In short, there was nowhere to really run for more than half a mile. So… to the dreaded treadmill, alas.

Two Runs and an Injury

06mi, injury

Start time: 8/28/2014, 5:37am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.1 miles
Average pace: 10:28 min/mile
Total Miles For August: 80 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 545 miles
Current Shoes: 102 miles

Start time: 8/29/2014, 5:35am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 9:45 min/mile
Total Miles For August: 86 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 551 miles
Current Shoes: 108 miles

Ran on Thursday w/ Ben and Steve, and my right calf (which had been a little stiff on Monday) was continuing to be so that day, too. Friday was supposed to have amazing weather, though, and I wasn’t sure if a Saturday run was going to happen. So given the opportunity for a Friday morning run, I jumped on it…

…and a quarter mile from the end, my right calf went from a little stiff to really hurting. *sigh* I’ve had this happen before (back in 2007) and it was an achilles mechanism strain. (Essentially the muscles that connect to the achilles tendon.) I ended up taking two weeks off last time and that did the trick then, so hopefully… maybe? Fingers crossed. Until then, ice and stretching and elevation and such.

Revenge of the Dreaded Treadmill

06mi, treadmill

Start time: 8/4/2014, 4:45pm
Location: WSC Silver Spring
Distance: 6.15 miles
Average pace: 9:28 min/mile
Total Miles For August: 16 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 481 miles
Current Shoes: 38 miles

Oh, how I hate the treadmill. I had to skip this morning’s run in favor of some more sleep, though; then I had to scratch running outdoors after work due to the Code Orange level of air quality. So, the treadmill it was. Better than nothing.

No-Sleeves July

06mi

Start time: 7/2/2014, 5:40am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.2 miles
Average pace: 9:50 min/mile
Total Miles For July: 6 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 391 miles
Current Shoes: 189 miles

It was a toasty morning today, so I broke out one of the sleeveless shirts to try and compensate a bit. On the bright side, saw Blair out with her running buds near the Lincoln Memorial. I also decided discretion was the better party of valor and that a 7th mile just wasn’t happening. (Plus there’s still spin class tonight.)

Chewing the Air

06mi

Start time: 6/25/2014, 5:37am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.05 miles
Average pace: 10:24 min/mile
Total Miles For June: 66 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 370 miles
Current Shoes: 168 miles

Ran my first two miles by myself on Wednesday and was doing ok, but then the humidity leapt into my lungs and it was all over. Honestly, just finishing the run was a real accomplishment. If there was any doubt on how much I was dragging on Wednesday versus Monday, let’s put it this way; I ran one less mile but came in one minute per mile slower.