Start time: 8/19/07, 8:00am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 8 miles
Average pace: 8:46min/mile

Today’s run started out well enough; overcast skies, low temperature… in August, no less. Then at the 3.5 mile turn-around, I managed to twist my ankle all the way the heck around as my foot suddenly went perpendicular to my leg. Ouch. Cue Greg swearing loudly several times as he hops up and down on his other foot. Smoooooth.

Then, right as we finished up the run, Paul looks over at me and says, “Hey, you’re bleeding.” Dammit, I put BodyGlide on, but sure enough there was a big smear of blood down the right side of my shirt at nipple height. I washed it off as best as I could, but apparently the other one was feeling left out so it decided to bleed as well. Good god.

(My theory? Once you’ve had the bleeding nipples in a running season, it will take several months for them to truly heal. So, I guess even for short runs it’ll be NipGuards for a while. Yeesh.)

Still, other than all that, a good run, honest!