Start time: 7/25/2015, 7:00 am
Location: National Mall, Rock Creek Park, National Zoo, Dupont Circle, Farragut
Distance: 10.11 miles
Average pace: 10:18 min/mile
Total Miles For July: 73 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 459 miles
Current Shoes: 132 miles

We had a bonus visitor today; Armand’s brother Jason was in town and he was gamely up for a run with us turkeys. We did the National Zoo route, since it would show off a bunch of the city in one fell swoop.

We did have one moment of panic, though. Right after going through Dupont Circle, we saw a dog (italian greyhound?) run down the center of Connecticut Ave, with someone in running gear heading after it, clearly trying to catch it. I ran down our side of the street all the way to M Street, trying to get ahead of the dog so that I could then head in and try to corral it. And while I was making up some good distance on the dog, unfortunately at M Street the traffic was against me crossing and I wasn’t willing to get killed to try and save the dog.

Fortunately, there is a happy ending. When we got the Lafayette Square in front of the White House, we saw that the Secret Service officers there had managed to grab the dog. Phew! Crisis averted.