Start time: 6/13/09, 8:00am
Location: SW Waterfront, National Mall
Distance: 5 miles
Average pace: 9:25min/mile
Total Miles For June: 29 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 341 miles

Went running with Aaron and Dave, and that was the non-bleah part of today’s run; it’s been a year and a half since I’ve done so. We also ran into Stephanie, JP, and Ben who were just finishing up their own run and next week we might well join them. I was originally going to run two extra miles, but I just felt sick to my stomach the entire time. I made sure to eat a full hour beforehand, but no such luck. The last time I ate oatmeal and then ran in the same morning had the same reaction, though. Is it time to find a different pre-run breakfast? Maybe some toast with peanut butter? Oh well. Aaron wanted two little walk breaks in the run; it felt a little odd doing so after having thrown them out a few years ago…

Start time: 6/11/09, 7:30am
Location: Arlington Boulevard Trail
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:42min/mile
Total Miles For June: 24 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 336 miles

I didn’t think I’d get an outdoor run for Thursday; it’s been a storm-filled week and originally there were supposed to be big raging thunderstorms all morning. When I woke up and it wasn’t raining, though… well, it sure beats running around and around in a circle on the indoor track. Although I am fairly convinced that the Gmap Pedometer is wrong on this route because the second half was… awfully fast. Then again, it’s dead-on accurate for the first half. (This was two out-and-back routes of a mile each.) Oh well, close enough.

Start time: 6/8/09, 8:30pm
Location: Clarendon & Ballston
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 9:10min/mile
Total Miles For June: 20 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 332 miles

I wasn’t planning on running today—I was going to hit it in the morning—but Charlie wanted to go this evening and suggested coming over and we could run together. Sounded good to me! (Plus tomorrow morning is the Virginia primaries for both Governor and my local rep in the VA legislature.) Charlie was a little stiff from playing in a tennis doubles tournament all weekend (he came in third!) but you’d never know it. Nice run through the neighborhood.

Start time: 6/6/09, 8:45am
Location: North Arlington, W&OD Trail
Distance: 8 miles
Average pace: 9:07min/mile
Total Miles For June: 16 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 328 miles

Today’s run felt a little heavy in the air, and with the dark clouds it kept looking like it was about to rain. Never did, though, which was a relief. Added bonus: ran into Susan Keenan walking her dog on my way back, whom I trained with back in 2005. Yay! I stuck with an old standby route; down 10th Street and then Wilson Boulevard all the way to George Mason Drive, then along the Bluemont Trail until it hits the W&OD, and up the W&OD to marker 4.5 before turning around and heading home.

(No splits, the GPS glitched on the way out.)

Start time: 6/3/09, 7:00am
Location: Clarendon/Courthouse
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 9:07min/mile
Total Miles For June: 8 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 320 miles

I reversed yesterday’s route, but otherwise exactly the same. Still felt a little bleah in parts but not quite as bad as Tuesday. Am starting to wonder if my new eating less is backfiring on me and I’m not having enough fuel in me? Or maybe I’m just a big wimp?

(9:00, 9:45, 8:52, 8:51)

Start time: 6/2/09, 7:15am
Location: Clarendon/Courthouse
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 9:11min/mile
Total Miles For June: 4 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 316 miles

Oof. Humid run coupled with some tummy trouble in the second half; ended up taking a walk break on each of the last two miles to make sure nothing truly bad happened…

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2879014

(8:52, 8:52, 9:32, 9:27)

Start time: 5/31/09, 7:30pm
Location: Clarendon/Courthouse
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 9:48min/mile
Total Miles For May: 51 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 312 miles

Just a casual evening run with Charlie on Sunday night; we just wanted to get out and move a little bit, but nothing too big. This hit the spot pretty well; we spent most of it running through the area in-between Clarendon Boulevard and Arlington Boulevard, looking at houses as we ran up and down the streets (and hills). A nice evening.

(10:11, 10:00, 9:32, 9:28)

Start time: 5/28/09, 7:30am
Location: Clarendon/Courthouse
Distance: 3.1 miles
Average pace: 8:41min/mile
Total Miles For May: 47 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 308 miles

I wanted a short run this morning—my tendon still needs some healing so I really shouldn’t be pushing it too much—so I dug up my old “faux 5K” route, which is two 1.55 mile loops around the neighborhood. I’d forgotten how much I enjoy it; sure, I have to run up Washington Boulevard (which is a slow incline that doesn’t seem like much until you run it a second time) but the closest thing to crossing a major road is going across Pershing where it ends at Arlington Boulevard, which is not bad at all. Only a tiny bit of discomfort afterwards, which is a good sign on the tendon, too. Yesterday was spinning, tomorrow will hopefully be swimming, so it’s also a mini-triathlon three day event, ha ha ha.

More importantly, though, it was ultra-humid this morning. I weighed myself before and after the run and even with drinking water while running, I sweated out 1.5 pounds of water in just under 27 minutes. Yuck. Not my idea of a good time, that’s for certain. Fortunately there’s a storm system coming through that I believe is supposed to help knock out some of the humidity. Let’s hope so, I’m not ready for it to already be summer.

Start time: 5/22/09, 5:30pm
Location: W&OD Trail
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:58min/mile
Total Miles For May: 44 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 305 miles

Oops, totally forgot to post this earlier. I had a chance to squeeze in one last run Friday after work before heading out of town, so I picked up 4 miles on the W&OD Trail in Vienna. Very sunny, and and finding parking was a bear because of all the “Viva! Vienna!” setup, but all in all a nice run.

(9:06, 8:50, 9:04, 8:52)

Start time: 5/19/09, 5:30pm
Location: Westmorland Avenue and Washington Boulevard
Distance: 8 miles
Average pace: 9:19min/mile
Total Miles For May: 40 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 301 miles

I’m going to be out of town for most of Memorial Day weekend, and since the weather was supposed to be cool today, I thought it would be a good opportunity to run home from work. So, I took the bus in, and then hoofed it back home after work. It was a little warmer than originally predicted (low 70s instead of the 60s), but still not bad at all. But ugh, those hills! The last time I did this I’d run a slightly longer route where the second half was the W&OD Trail and Wilson Boulevard; today I cut a mile off by running on Washington Blvd for the second half, but I swear, that meant miles 6 and 7 were straight up. Gah. Still, all things considered, not bad at all. And it sure did feel good, mentally, once I got to the intersection with Glebe in Ballston and everything started looking much more familiar.

Just over 300 miles for the year. Yay!

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2421376

(9:10, 9:15, 9:36, 9:05, 9:05, 9:36, 9:37, 9:08)