Start time: 10/18/2014, 7:04am
Location: National Mall, Georgetown, Foxhall Drive, Massachusetts Ave, Rock Creek Park
Distance: 14 miles
Average pace: 10:35 min/mile
Total Miles For October: 39 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 645 miles
Current Shoes: 202 miles

I’m not sure how I get talked into running up Foxhall Drive, (which climbs and climbs and climbs for two solid miles) but there we go. On the bright(?) side it was distinctly better this time around, a good 20 seconds per mile faster. So yay us, right?

Start time: 10/9/2014, 5:35am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.15 miles
Average pace: 10:47 min/mile
Total Miles For October: 11 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 617 miles
Current Shoes: 174 miles

Start time: 10/14/2014, 5:38am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.29 miles
Average pace: 10:14 min/mile
Total Miles For October: 18 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 624 miles
Current Shoes: 181 miles

Start time: 10/16/2014, 5:38am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.23 miles
Average pace: 9:50 min/mile
Total Miles For October: 25 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 631 miles
Current Shoes: 188 miles

Had a little inadvertent time off due to a cold, alas.

Start time: 10/1/2014, 5:34am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 5 miles
Average pace: 10:26 min/mile
Total Miles For October: 5 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 611 miles
Current Shoes: 168 miles

I was already tired/dragging when I started this run; once cold rain came down, Ben and I called it quits a bit early.

Start time: 9/29/2014, 5:37am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.09 miles
Average pace: 10:29 min/mile
Total Miles For September: 55 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 606 miles
Current Shoes: 163 miles

I have a light-up snap bracelet that I wear in the darker mornings, when I’m running by myself before meeting my running buddies. It has three modes; continually lit, blinking, and off. Every time you press the button on it, it shifts to the next mode. While running my first two miles, I had it on continually lit. Near the end of that time, I noticed it was blinking. “Hmmm,” I thought, “I must have accidentally hit the button.” I pressed it twice more and put it back to solid.

Later on the run, it was blinking again. By that point it was light enough out that I just turned it off. When I got back to the car… it was lit up again. And wouldn’t turn off, or even into blinking mode. When I got to the gym (to take a shower), it was still lit up and refused to change. Upon leaving the gym… it was off. And completely dead.

And to think, just yesterday I had said, “Oh good, I didn’t need to replace it this year like I did last fall.” Oops!

Start time: 9/22/2014, 5:35am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 7.35 miles
Average pace: 10:16 min/mile
Total Miles For September: 39 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 590 miles
Current Shoes: 147 miles

Ran with Ben this morning; it was wonderfully cool after this weekend’s warmer, summer-like temperatures. A nice way to start out the week… well, except for the part where I swallowed a gnat. Bleah.

Start time: 9/20/2014, 10:35am
Location: National Mall, Rock Creek Park, National Zoo
Distance: 10.04 miles
Average pace: 10:35 min/mile
Total Miles For September: 32 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 583 miles
Current Shoes: 140 miles

Another zoo run! Hurrah! Always enjoyable.

Start time: 9/13/2014, 7:00am
Location: Gallery Place, Shaw, LeDroit Park, Navy Yard
Distance: 9.79 miles
Average pace: 10:52 min/mile
Total Miles For September: 10 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 561 miles
Current Shoes: 118 miles

After taking two weeks off, I joined the group for a 9-mile run this morning… and hurrah, no problems and everything is all healed up. Mind you, that 9-mile run stretched into almost 10 miles instead… oops!