Start time: 9/17/12, 5:45am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 9:45min/mile
Total Miles For September: 35 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 365 miles
Current Shoes: 160 miles
Another beautiful, cool morning. I would be thrilled with several months of this weather.
Start time: 9/13/12, 5:47am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 9:33min/mile
Total Miles For September: 24 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 354 miles
Current Shoes: 149 miles
Could have sworn I posted this already but I guess not. Anyway, fantastic run. Best in a very long time. Just me and Steve and even with some walk breaks I feel like we were moving at a nice clip but without much effort. More like that please.
Start time: 9/15/12, 10:54am
Location: Takoma, Silver Spring
Distance: 5 miles
Average pace: 9:25min/mile
Total Miles For September: 29 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 359 miles
Current Shoes: 154 miles
Late start due to a Friday night concert that ran three hours (but go Bruce!). A little warmer than I’d have liked but not bad; part of it was my potential bicycle route to the WSC in Silver Spring, which worked easily.
Start time: 9/11/12, 6:00am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 4.09 miles
Average pace: 10:27min/mile
Total Miles For September: 18 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 348 miles
Current Shoes: 143 miles
Was a little late out the door so didn’t get my solo mile in beforehand. But great running weather in general.
Start time: 9/8/12, 8:21am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 5 miles
Average pace: 10:12min/mile
Total Miles For September: 14 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 344 miles
Current Shoes: 139 miles
Start time: 9/5/12, 5:45am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 5.06 miles
Average pace: 10:12min/mile
Total Miles For September: 9 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 339 miles
Current Shoes: 134 miles
Back with the group, who has shifted (at least temporarily) to Monday/Wednesday runs in my absence. Since I normally have spin class on Wednesdays, we’ll see how this goes. Anyway, another thick air run. Just awful. Hopefully things will change soon for the better.
Start time: 9/2/12, 9:20am
Location: Takoma, Silver Spring
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 9:30min/mile
Total Miles For September: 4 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 334 miles
Current Shoes: 129 miles
Silly me, I’d thought after running at high altitude for two weeks, I would be super-strong upon my return. With hindsight being 20/20, I think I’d rather have cool-but-thin air than hot-and-thick air. Gah! That is one hell of a humid morning.
Start time: 8/21/12, 5:30am
Distance: 3 miles
Average pace: 9:58min/mile
Start time: 8/22/12, 5:30am
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 10:24min/mile
Start time: 8/25/12, 7:30am
Distance: 5 miles
Average pace: 10:13min/mile
Start time: 8/27/12, 5:30am
Distance: 5 miles
Average pace: 10:00min/mile
Start time: 8/31/12, 5:30am
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 9:48min/mile
Location: JW Marriott gym, Bogota, Colombia
Total Miles For August: 21 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 330 miles
Current Shoes: 125 miles
So, one broken toe and several weeks off later… the next five runs were all on a treadmill in Bogota, Colombia. A combination of the VERY high altitude (over 8000 feet!), bad air quality, and not knowing the neighborhood meant that discretion was the better part of valor for my exercising. Missed one or two planned runs due to the work schedule not quite cooperating, but I did the best I could and I’m pleased with that. (Plus some crosstraining on other days as well.)
Start time: 7/28/12, 11:20am
Location: Lost River, West Virginia
Distance: 3 miles
Average pace: 10:16min/mile
Total Miles For July: 45 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 309 miles
Current Shoes: 104 miles
Went for a short run while out in the mountains (Lost River, West Virginia). Phew! Those hills (plus some bright sunlight and perhaps the attempted return of my breakfast) did me in.
Then, later in the day I whacked my little toe against a chaise lounge. Broken or just banged up? A good 24 hours later, still hurts like the dickens and slightly swollen. We shall see. *sigh*
Start time: 7/26/12, 5:51am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 5.11 miles
Average pace: 10:50min/mile
Total Miles For July: 42 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 306 miles
Current Shoes: 101 miles
Just the two of us on a slightly slow Thursday morning.
Start time: 7/24/12, 5:45am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 5.11 miles
Average pace: 10:02min/mile
Total Miles For July: 37 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 301 miles
Current Shoes: 96 miles
It’s nice to be back.