Start time: 7/21/12, 6:02am
Location: National Mall, SW Waterfront, Navy Yard
Distance: 6.15 miles
Average pace: 10:29min/mile
Total Miles For July: 32 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 296 miles
Current Shoes: 91 miles

Ok, technically I wasn’t supposed to be up to 6 miles. But considering the recovery schedule started with pauses and then worked up to times without pauses, I decided a 6-miler was ok if they had walk breaks. All went well, aside from the rain, but we all agreed we’d take a cool rain over ice, snow, or 100+ degree weather. (But it sure would’ve been nice to have been sans rain!)

Start time: 7/19/12, 6:11am
Location: Takoma
Distance: 3.61 miles
Average pace: 9:45min/mile
Total Miles For July: 26 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 290 miles
Current Shoes: 85 miles

…for me to get to the point where I forgot to record a run. 🙂 In this case, Thursday’s.

Start time: 7/17/12, 6:04am
Location: Takoma
Distance: 3.62 miles
Average pace: 9:41min/mile
Total Miles For July: 22 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 286 miles
Current Shoes: 81 miles

Tried a new route today. Took one wrong turn (oops) and also discover a whole new world… of hills. On Big Hill #3 and 4, I pooped out and walked about 10 seconds on each. Ah well. I’ll conquer them eventually…

Start time: 7/14/12, 6:55am
Location: Rock Creek Park
Distance: 3.56 miles
Average pace: 9:49min/mile
Total Miles For July: 18 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 282 miles
Current Shoes: 77 miles

Ran through the upper portions of Rock Creek Park along Beach Drive. First two thirds went great, then I got caught in a 5 minute downpour and unfortunately it managed to kill all my momentum. Ah well, I got the time in, life goes on.

Start time: 7/12/12, 6:12am
Location: Takoma
Distance: 3.16 miles
Average pace: 9:30min/mile
Total Miles For July: 14 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 278 miles
Current Shoes: 73 miles

As I told Charlie post-run, as the time/distance increases, so do the number of hills thanks to our neighborhood. Not a complaint, just a fact to accept and move on…

Start time: 7/10/12, 6:01am
Location: Takoma
Distance: 2.69 miles
Average pace: 9:18min/mile
Total Miles For July: 11 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 275 miles
Current Shoes: 70 miles

Amazing what 15 degrees cooler can do for you.

Start time: 7/8/12, 6:35am
Location: Sligo Creek Park
Distance: 2.49 miles
Average pace: 10:02min/mile
Total Miles For July: 8 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 272 miles
Current Shoes: 67 miles

I was supposed to do this 25-minute run yesterday, but on Friday afternoon I developed a big ol’ cramp in my right calf that was still bothering me (although not as bad) on Saturday. So, got up on Sunday and thought that maybe Sligo Creek might be a few degrees cooler in the same way that Rock Creek gets that way.

Well, if it was, I didn’t notice. Thick and humid air, generally unpleasant from start to finish. Calf was still a little sore but I think the run helped stretch it out. Glad that’s over.

Start time: 7/3/12, 6:30am
Location: Takoma
Distance: 3.34 miles
Intervals: 15 min run, 2 min walk (x2)
Average pace: 10:11min/mile
Total Miles For July: 3 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 267 miles
Current Shoes: 62 miles

Almost done with the interval part of the recovery schedule! I think I have one more, and then it’ll just be things like “25 minutes” and so on. Slowly but surely getting there.

Start time: 6/30/12, 7:05am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 4.01 miles
Intervals: 12 min run, 2 min walk (x3)
Average pace: 10:29min/mile
Total Miles For June: 17 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 264 miles
Current Shoes: 59 miles

Headed down to the Mall (where my group was running a 10 miler) and timed my own run so that I finished around the same time as them. There was a huge storm last night so I had to do a little tree-dodging, but not too bad all things considered. The Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s tents got trashed though, and I saw my fair share of downed portapotties too. (Eek.) Even starting at 7am it was sure toasty, though, and it’s just going to get worse…