Start time: 8/7/2015, 7:08 am
Location: National Mall, East Capitol, Anacostia River Walk, Navy Yard
Distance: 8 miles
Average pace: 10:22 min/mile
Total Miles For August: 30 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 495 miles
Current Shoes: 168 miles
It’d been a while since we did the Anacostia River Walk trail, so Steve and I tackled that eight mile loop. Some new visual stimulus is always nice.
Start time: 8/5/2015, 5:37 am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.45 miles
Average pace: 9:30 min/mile
Total Miles For August: 22 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 487 miles
Current Shoes: 160 miles
Feeling a little zippy this morning. Maybe because we skipped Capitol Hill and ran down to Lincoln instead?
Start time: 8/3/2015, 5:39 am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.3 miles
Average pace: 9:44 min/mile
Total Miles For August: 15 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 480 miles
Current Shoes: 153 miles
Ran again on Monday after a Sunday run. I normally try to space runs out but so far so good. Clearly not an issue the way it used to be!
Start time: 8/2/2015, 7:00 am
Location: National Mall, Capital Crescent Trail
Distance: 8 miles
Average pace: 10:39 min/mile
Total Miles For August: 8 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 473 miles
Current Shoes: 146 miles
It’d been a while since we did the standard out-and-back with no deviations.
Start time: 7/30/2015, 5:45 am
Location: National Mall, Capitol Hill
Distance: 6.2 miles
Average pace: 9:47 min/mile
Total Miles For July: 79 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 465 miles
Current Shoes: 138 miles
Ended up missing Monday and Wednesday’s runs; the first due to storms, the second due to a combination of factors. Decided to squeeze in a solo Thursday morning run but wow, the humidity just about killed me. Pushed through six miles and decided to call it a day.
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.
Start time: 7/22/2015, 5:39 am
Location: National Mall, Capitol Hill
Distance: 7.25 miles
Average pace: 9:11 min/mile
Total Miles For July: 63 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 449 miles
Current Shoes: 122 miles
I hadn’t meant to take off a week from running, but various issues kept me from running as planned on Saturday and then Monday. On the bright side, coming back this morning was a glorious experience. Almost no humidity and about 70 degrees. After temperatures the past few days being in the high 90s with a heat index even higher due to humidity, this break is fantastic. Just John and me this morning, but we definitely made the most of our good conditions!
Start time: 7/16/2015, 5:39 am
Location: National Mall, Capitol Hill
Distance: 7.26 miles
Average pace: 9:33 min/mile
Total Miles For July: 56 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 442 miles
Current Shoes: 115 miles
After the scorcher of the previous day’s afternoon run, being out before 6am was a pleasant temperature change, that’s for certain.
Start time: 7/15/2015, 3:15 pm
Location: McLean
Distance: 4.25 miles
Average pace: 10:46 min/mile
Total Miles For July: 49 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 435 miles
Current Shoes: 108 miles
Bonus Wednesday afternoon run! Holly and Steve sometimes go for an afternoon run from the office, and Laura and I got to join them this time. The timing worked out perfectly—when we were done I just changed shirts and then headed home—although that said, it sure was boiling hot. Phew! Makes me appreciate those super early start times.
Start time: 7/14/2015, 5:40 am
Location: National Mall, Capitol Hill
Distance: 7.2 miles
Average pace: 9:46 min/mile
Total Miles For July: 45 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 431 miles
Current Shoes: 104 miles
After switching last week to Mon/Wed, this week was back (temporarily) to Tue/Thu since Steve was out of town and it worked better for Ben and John and I. (Although no John this morning.)