Start time: 5/11/13, 7:00am
Location: MBT Trail, Takoma, Manor Park, Ft. Totten, Brookland
Distance: 9.93 miles
Average pace: 11:46min/mile
Total Miles For May: 34 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 250 miles
Current Shoes: 149 miles
That was not one of my more elegant runs. Really hilly and humid course today and I was dragging from far too early on. Some you try to finish well, others you just try to finish.
Start time: 5/6/13, 5:46am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.25 miles
Average pace: 9:42min/mile
Total Miles For May: 24 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 240 miles
Current Shoes: 139 miles
A tiny bit creaky after Sunday’s run, but all in all, not too bad. (Bit breezy.)
Start time: 4/27/13, 7:00am
Location: National Mall, Mt. Vernon Trail, Georgetown
Distance: 9 miles
Average pace: 10:13min/mile
Total Miles For April: 66 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 212 miles
Current Shoes: 111 miles
Start time: 4/29/13, 5:46am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 9:48min/mile
Total Miles For April: 70 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 216 miles
Current Shoes: 115 miles
Start time: 5/1/13, 5:48am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.25 miles
Average pace: 9:09min/mile
Total Miles For May: 6 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 222 miles
Current Shoes: 121 miles
Start time: 5/3/13, 8:30am
Location: WSC Silver Spring
Distance: 3 miles
Average pace: 8:57min/mile
Total Miles For May: 9 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 225 miles
Current Shoes: 124 miles
Start time: 5/5/13, 8:00am
Location: National Mall, SW Waterfront, Tidal Basin, LBJ Park, Mt. Vernon Trail
Distance: 9.53 miles
Average pace: 9:46min/mile
Total Miles For May: 18 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 234 miles
Current Shoes: 133 miles
Saturday, 4/27: Nice jaunt over the bridge to Mt. Vernon Trail, then all the way up to Key Bridge and heading back via Rock Creek. The inevitable “we’re running down M Street faster than you can normally drive it” jokes were made.
Monday, 4/29: Wet and rainy and miserable, so much that there was a unanimous “I’m fine with cutting this run short” decision made by all three of us.
Wednesday, 5/1: Steve and I were clearly feeling a little zippy after Monday’s shortened run.
Friday, 5/3: Went to the gym before heading out of town and as part of the workout picked up three on the (ugh) treadmill.
Sunday, 5/5: Steve ended up having to miss Saturday’s run so we picked up a 9.5 miler together, which worked out really well. Had to adjust a few times to avoid the Race for Hope 5K course but that was part of the fun, just making up the route as we ran.
Phew!
Start time: 4/24/13, 5:50am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.25 miles
Average pace: 9:44min/mile
Total Miles For April: 57 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 203 miles
Current Shoes: 102 miles
Another cool morning, but not as much as Monday’s. Just me and Ben, and aside from a large platoon of Army soldiers exercising on the Mall, a fairly uneventful time.
Start time: 4/20/13, 7:00am
Location: National Mall, Bloomingdale, H Street, Navy Yard
Distance: 10.2 miles
Average pace: 10:23min/mile
Total Miles For April: 45 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 191 miles
Current Shoes: 90 miles
Start time: 4/22/13, 5:50am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.25 miles
Average pace: 9:39min/mile
Total Miles For April: 51 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 197 miles
Current Shoes: 96 miles
Saturday: Nice run all over DC; up to Bloomingdale, then over to the H Street Corridor, then through Navy Yard before heading back.
Monday: Temperature drop! Chillier run but a nice one overall.
Start time: 4/17/13, 5:50am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 9:42min/mile
Total Miles For April: 35 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 181 miles
Current Shoes: 80 miles
Ran with Ben this morning for the first half; would’ve had another half-mile with him but he wasn’t feeling well and walked the last portion of his fourth mile back in. Tacked on my 2 solo miles onto the back end of the run and they went well. It was very humid out and between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, the Mall was full of fog. A bit of a surprise! Then when I got back to my car, just as I was walking up to it, my friend Eric ran by and said hello (out for his own run). Too funny.
Clyde’s 10K
Start time: 4/14/13, 8:15am
Location: Columbia, MD
Distance: 10K (6.2 miles)
Finishing time: 55:28
Average pace: 8:57min/mile
Total Miles For April: 29 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 175 miles
Current Shoes: 74 miles
Hilly, hilly 10K up in Columbia. Lots of climbs that never seemed to quite balance out with downhill stretches, although I’m sure that’s all just in my head. Ran this race with Stephanie (who warned us about the hills) and Ben, and had a great time. Cool start, which was good; kept up with Stephanie until around mile 3.5, at which point she got ahead of me on a massive hill and I never quite caught her.
Good finishing time for me, though. My last two (and fastest two) 10Ks were 52:30 back in 2008, and 54:02 in 2010. Considering I was at my fastest overall in 2008, only an extra minute in a half for a hilly hilly course? I’m very pleased. After a couple of lackluster finishes at races recently, I feel like I did a good job here. Probably could have kicked it a little faster near the end, but no complaints.
Start time: 4/10/13, 5:47am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 5.33 miles
Average pace: 10:03min/mile
Total Miles For April: 23 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 169 miles
Current Shoes: 68 miles
Oops! Forgot to add in this run. As it’s backdated I have no memory of this at all, save for deciding to skip my extra (6th) mile for some reason or another.
Start time: 4/8/13, 5:50am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.25 miles
Average pace: 9:11min/mile
Total Miles For April: 18 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 164 miles
Current Shoes: 63 miles
Had a lovely run this morning. Finally, shorts and a t-shirt on a morning when you’re supposed to be able to do so. The regular buddies were all otherwise engaged, so my running partner this morning was Ira Glass on the iPod. Life was good.
Start time: 4/3/13, 5:50am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.21 miles
Average pace: 9:50min/mile
Total Miles For April: 12 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 158 miles
Current Shoes: 57 miles
Ok, spring, get your ass over here.