Start time: 4/2/2015, 5:00pm
Location: Rock Creek Park
Distance: 7 miles
Average pace: 10:06 min/mile
Total Miles For April: 7 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 134 miles
Current Shoes: 229 miles

I needed the sleep last night, so I bagged on the morning’s run and instead stopped in Rock Creek Park on the way home and hoofed it back and forth in the middle stretch of the park. There was definitely a lot of huffing and puffing going on; a combo of being a little out of shape, recovering from my cold, and not being used to 70 degree weather. Still, I stuck the distance and that’s all that matters.

Start time: 3/12/2015, 5:40am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.1 miles
Average pace: 10:10 min/mile
Total Miles For March: 26 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 107 miles
Current Shoes: 202 miles

My solo miles are not where they should be right now. Need to work on that.

Start time: 3/10/2015, 5:40am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.12 miles
Average pace: 10:21 min/mile
Total Miles For March: 19 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 100 miles
Current Shoes: 195 miles

Amazing what a day or so of warmer weather can do! I’d met the guys on Saturday post-run for the coffee/tea portion of the morning and there were huge mounds of snow everywhere from the latest blast of yuck, and they’d reported lots of impassable sidewalks. Today? Barely anything. A few small clumps here and there, but with one exception not on the sidewalks, and clearly in spots where the sun barely hits. Even then, they were much much smaller. It’s supposed to be warm again today and if that’s not enough, rain starting around lunchtime into tomorrow. That should knock out the rest of the snow in one fell swoop. Next stop, mudpie city.

Start time: 3/3/2015, 5:40am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.31 miles
Average pace: 10:16 min/mile
Total Miles For March: 7 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 88 miles
Current Shoes: 183 miles

Good news is that March is starting out with a bit more running. Bad news is that crappy weather is sweeping in, followed by a couple of events that are going to almost certainly derail running for a few weeks. Argh. Well, we’ll see how the latter goes. Hopefully it won’t be TOO disruptive.

Start time: 1/15/2015, 5:34am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.2 miles
Average pace: 9:45 min/mile
Total Miles For January: 33 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 33 miles
Current Shoes: 128 miles

Last Thursday was the “last chance run” before the Charleston Marathon… well, for the rest of my group anyway, since I wasn’t going to be able to attend. It was nice to do it with them, though, and wish them on their way!

Start time: 1/13/2015, 5:37am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.28 miles
Average pace: 9:42 min/mile
Total Miles For January: 26 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 26 miles
Current Shoes: 121 miles

There’s something great and awful at the same time about knowing that at 5:37am, it’s the warmest the day’s going to get. I’m just glad it didn’t dip back below freezing until after we began, so that the sidewalks didn’t ice over.

Start time: 12/22/2014, 5:39am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.12 miles
Average pace: 9:53 min/mile
Total Miles For December: 58 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 810 miles
Current Shoes: 85 miles

Very windy Monday morning; we’d shifted back to a Monday this week for a combination of travel, weather, and holiday plans this week. (Riveting, I know.)

Start time: 12/16/2014, 5:39am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.23 miles
Average pace: 10:15 min/mile
Total Miles For December: 39 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 791 miles
Current Shoes: 66 miles

Had a surprise guest on Tuesday… John! It looks like he might be joining us regularly for the weekday runs again, which would be nice, since it ups the chances of others to run with. (And like Steve and Ben, he’s good company.)

Start time: 11/25/2014, 5:38am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.25 miles
Average pace: 9:35 min/mile
Total Miles For November: 63 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 739 miles
Current Shoes: 15 miles

Trying to get back into the rhythm of three days of running each week. School and winter are both throwing me for a little bit of a loop, honestly.