All posts by Greg McElhatton

Shorts and t-shirt!

06mi

Start time: 10/15/12, 5:46am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 9:26min/mile
Total Miles For October: 45 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 448 miles
Current Shoes: 243 miles

Nice 60 degree weather this morning. I believe Wednesday’s run by way of comparison is scheduled to be in the 40s…

Great day for a 12-miler

12mi

Start time: 10/13/12, 7:00am
Location: National Mall, Rock Creek
Distance: 12 miles
Average pace: 10:19min/mile
Total Miles For October: 39 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 442 miles
Current Shoes: 237 miles

Beautiful day, great company. Steve and I picked up the pace on the last four miles and we both felt fantastic.

Shoe Swap Around the Bend

06mi

Start time: 10/10/12, 5:45am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 9:34min/mile
Total Miles For October: 27 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 430 miles
Current Shoes: 225 miles

Almost time to replace the shoes. Another week or two and that’ll be it, I think.

Catching up

04mi, 05mi, 06mi, gym, treadmill

Start time: 10/3/12, 5:45am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 5 miles
Average pace: 10:12min/mile
Total Miles For October: 11 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 414 miles
Current Shoes: 209 miles

Start time: 10/5/12, 5:45am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 10:13min/mile
Total Miles For October: 17 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 420 miles
Current Shoes: 215 miles

Start time: 10/8/12, 1:45pm
Location: WSC Silver Spring treadmill
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 11:06min/mile
Total Miles For October: 21 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 424 miles
Current Shoes: 219 miles

Oops! Quick catch up.

Wednesday: Muggy and humid plus little sleep on Mon night/Tues morning meant that I was dragging bad on Wednesday with Ben and John. Cut out the extra mile at the end and called it a day.

Friday: Just me and Ben doing a make-up run since we knew we were both unavailable on Saturday.

Monday: Over the weekend I did some weights involving legs, and one of my calves has been a little tight since then. Stretched it out really good, then after a 5-minute walk started out slow (12min/mile) on the treadmill and slowly built it up a bit. No pain at all and now it feels MUCH better.

Almost time to swap out the shoes!

Good Stuff

12mi

Start time: 9/29/12, 6:30am
Location: National Mall, East Potomac Park, Georgetown Waterfront
Distance: 12 miles
Average pace: 10:32min/mile
Total Miles For September: 73 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 403 miles
Current Shoes: 198 miles

Rounding out September with an (almost) fantastic run. Great company (Ben, John, Stephanie, Steve), fantastic weather, and my first double-digit mileage in over six months. Considering it was a 4-mile jump from last Saturday, I’m quite pleased.

Only complaint is that after last Saturday’s chafing/bleeding, I shouldn’t have just relied on BodyGlide to protect myself this go-round. Oops. Ah well, at least it was a dark shirt, right?

Another Cool Morning

06mi

Start time: 9/24/12, 5:46am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 9:53min/mile
Total Miles For September: 55 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 385 miles
Current Shoes: 180 miles

Just me and Ben this morning — Steve started with us but his ankle was bothering him so he just went about 6 blocks and then turned off towards home — and the cool temperatures were back. Yay!

Ow

08mi

Start time: 9/22/12, 10:22am
Location: Takoma, Sligo Creek Park
Distance: 8 miles
Average pace: 10:11min/mile
Total Miles For September: 49 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 379 miles
Current Shoes: 174 miles

Good news: 8 miles! Highest mileage since the marathon in March (and my stress fracture).

Bad news: Really should’ve started a little earlier. It wasn’t necessarily boiling (only 75 degrees after all) but the sun was out and shining bright and I was sweating up a storm. Also forgot to put on Bodyglide. Ow ow ow. (At least I remembered the sunscreen.) Also took a walk break or two up some steep hills on the way back.

All things considered I’ll take it as a victory.

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