Start time: 9/2/12, 9:20am
Location: Takoma, Silver Spring
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 9:30min/mile
Total Miles For September: 4 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 334 miles
Current Shoes: 129 miles
Silly me, I’d thought after running at high altitude for two weeks, I would be super-strong upon my return. With hindsight being 20/20, I think I’d rather have cool-but-thin air than hot-and-thick air. Gah! That is one hell of a humid morning.
Start time: 8/21/12, 5:30am
Distance: 3 miles
Average pace: 9:58min/mile
Start time: 8/22/12, 5:30am
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 10:24min/mile
Start time: 8/25/12, 7:30am
Distance: 5 miles
Average pace: 10:13min/mile
Start time: 8/27/12, 5:30am
Distance: 5 miles
Average pace: 10:00min/mile
Start time: 8/31/12, 5:30am
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 9:48min/mile
Location: JW Marriott gym, Bogota, Colombia
Total Miles For August: 21 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 330 miles
Current Shoes: 125 miles
So, one broken toe and several weeks off later… the next five runs were all on a treadmill in Bogota, Colombia. A combination of the VERY high altitude (over 8000 feet!), bad air quality, and not knowing the neighborhood meant that discretion was the better part of valor for my exercising. Missed one or two planned runs due to the work schedule not quite cooperating, but I did the best I could and I’m pleased with that. (Plus some crosstraining on other days as well.)