All posts by Greg McElhatton

Update: still warm

Start time: 6/18/2015, 5:40 am
Location: National Mall, Capitol Hill
Distance: 7.3 miles
Average pace: 9:35 min/mile
Total Miles For June: 48 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 347 miles
Current Shoes: 21 miles

Still warm but not quite as truly awful. So that’s an improvement, right?

Still Hot ‘n’ Humid

Start time: 6/16/2015, 5:40 am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 9:53 min/mile
Total Miles For June: 41 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 340 miles
Current Shoes: 14 miles

Another very hot run, to the point where I cancelled the last “bonus” mile.

That Was Just Awful

Start time: 6/14/2015, 7:08 am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 8 miles
Average pace: 10:22 min/mile
Total Miles For June: 35 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 334 miles
Current Shoes: 8 miles

Too hot/humid, should have started earlier. You know things are going bad when not only did everyone in the group agree to cut the run short from the planned 10 mile distance, but my self-conscious nature completely melted and for the last two miles I went sans shirt in an effort to feel vaguely less awful.

Rather Humid

Start time: 6/11/2015, 5:35 am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7 miles
Average pace: 9:37 min/mile
Total Miles For June: 27 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 326 miles
Current Shoes: 420 miles

Super, super humid this morning; by the time it was over, I was soaked to the bone. Bleah. That said, maybe we all just were desperate to get out of the humidity, but we moved at a nice clip.

Home Ground

Start time: 6/6/2015, 8:43 am
Location: Sligo Creek Park
Distance: 6.2 miles
Average pace: 10:00 min/mile
Total Miles For June: 20 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 319 miles
Current Shoes: 413 miles

Was NOT feeling well for a good stretch of this run, unfortunately. Win some, lose some.

More Dampness

Start time: 6/4/2015, 5:40 am
Location: National Mall, Capitol Hill
Distance: 7.3 miles
Average pace: 9:51 min/mile
Total Miles For June: 14 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 313 miles
Current Shoes: 407 miles

Still kind of gross out, so the new shoes remain on deck.

Damp

Start time: 6/2/2015, 5:40 am
Location: National Mall, Capitol Hill
Distance: 7.25 miles
Average pace: 9:41 min/mile
Total Miles For June: 7 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 306 miles
Current Shoes: 400 miles

The original plan was to swap out shoes this morning, but we’re having a lot of rain and storms this week. Decided not to trash the new shoes on their first week, so they’ll wait until next week, most likely.

OMG Awful

Start time: 5/31/2015, 10:00 am
Location: Sligo Creek Park
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 10:02 min/mile
Total Miles For May: 93 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 299 miles
Current Shoes: 393 miles

Should have gotten up much earlier. Too humid and hot; this felt like a July run, not end-of-May. Oooofff.

A Little Toastier

Start time: 5/28/2015, 5:39 am
Location: National Mall, Capitol Hill
Distance: 7.15 miles
Average pace: 9:52 min/mile
Total Miles For May: 89 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 295 miles
Current Shoes: 389 miles

Definitely was feeling the humidity today… uuugggghhhhhh. Also, time to swap out the shoes. Probably the first run in June will be just that.

Warming Up But Pushing Hard

Start time: 5/26/2015, 5:36 am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.25 miles
Average pace: 9:34 min/mile
Total Miles For May: 82 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 288 miles
Current Shoes: 382 miles

It’s definitely getting a little toastier. Pushed hard though, and Steve and John followed suit.