All posts by Greg McElhatton

4-miler

04mi

Start time: 8/2/11, 6:00am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 4.22 miles
Average pace: 10:22min/mile
Total Miles For August: 4 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 434 miles

Another run with the guys, another one where the knee bugged me for the first half mile or so.

Group 8-miler

08mi

Start time: 7/30/11, 6:40am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 8 miles
Average pace: 9:47min/mile
Total Miles For July: 49 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 430 miles

Ran two miles by myself, then six more with the group.

It was around here that one of my knees started bugging me at the starts of runs. I think I may have figured out the cause, though, further along.

Another mystery run

05mi

Start time: 7/28/11, 5:45am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 5.27 miles
Average pace: 10:18min/mile
Total Miles For July: 41 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 422 miles

I really should have caught up with my journal much sooner. After two months I’m lucky if I remember my name.

Mystery 4-miler

04mi

Start time: 7/26/11, 6:00am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 11:01min/mile
Total Miles For July: 36 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 417 miles

Back to the mystery runs. I’m guessing from the pace it must’ve still been boiling out.

Hot, Hotter, Hottest

08mi

Start time: 7/23/11, 7:30am
Location: Belle Haven Park, Mt. Vernon Trail
Distance: 8 miles
Average pace: 11:16min/mile
Total Miles For July: 32 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 413 miles

This was a triple digit heat day; something like a high of 102 with a heat index of 120. Steve and Ben were running 18 miles and John and I agreed to try and meet them for 8. The plan was we’d run approximately four miles down the Mt. Vernon Trail and then hopefully catch them coming back up and finish together. Unfortunately we mis-timed it and didn’t see them until we were done. John was a real trooper, though, and pulled me through the worst of it all. (As I joked afterwards, you know it’s unpleasant if I give up caring and take off the shirt.) No worries about time, just aiming to finish sort of conditions.

More unpleasantness

04mi

Start time: 7/21/11, 6:00am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 10:27min/mile
Total Miles For July: 24 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 405 miles

Another unpleasantly hot run (a theme that would continue all week). I had John with me for this run but it was still really, really hot and bad air quality too. We pushed through but it wasn’t pretty.

Post-move

04mi

Start time: 7/19/11, 6:00am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 10:47min/mile
Total Miles For July: 20 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 401 miles

Oh god, I remember this horrible run. I was by myself, it was right after our move, and it was blazing hot and bad air quality to boot. I ended up having some breathing trouble and slowed way the hell down the last two miles. Thoroughly unpleasant.

Mystery 10-miler

10mi

Start time: 7/9/11, 7:00am
Location: Mount Vernon Trail
Distance: 10 miles
Average pace: 10:25min/mile
Total Miles For July: 16 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 397 miles

Looking at the map, I remember this one vaguely. I ran two miles by myself, then met Stephanie and Rich to run down the Mt. Vernon Trail until we encoutered Steve, Ben, Jim, and Michael heading up it (off a long run) and finished it with them.