Start time: 1/22/2016, 8:50 am
Location: WSC Silver Spring
Distance: 8 miles
Average pace: 9:22 min/mile
Total Miles For January: 75 miles
Total Miles For 2016: 75 miles
Current Shoes: 202 miles

The last of my five treadmill runs in a row (oof!), and also the last run in before “snowzilla” showed up later in the day and knocked any plans of running out the window for a week.

Start time: 1/21/2016, 6:30 pm
Location: WSC Silver Spring
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 9:20 min/mile
Total Miles For January: 67 miles
Total Miles For 2016: 67 miles
Current Shoes: 194 miles

Winter is so much easier to run in if it’s not precipitating. It’d stopped later in the day so I got a walk to and from the gym as part of this run (3.2 miles round trip) so not a bad little workout overall.

Start time: 1/19/2016, 6:00 am
Location: WSC Clarendon
Distance: 8 miles
Average pace: 9:15 min/mile
Total Miles For January: 61 miles
Total Miles For 2016: 61 miles
Current Shoes: 188 miles

Outdoor run got cancelled on account of cold (bordering on freezing rain), so off to the treadmill… *sigh* Actually not a bad run though.

Start time: 1/17/2016, 3:20 pm
Location: WSC Silver Spring
Distance: 5 miles
Average pace: 8:59 min/mile
Total Miles For January: 53 miles
Total Miles For 2016: 53 miles
Current Shoes: 180 miles

Another part of a very busy weekend, but managed to pop up to the gym w/ Charlie for a short run.

Start time: 1/15/2016, 4:30 pm
Location: WSC Silver Spring
Distance: 8 miles
Average pace: 9:23 min/mile
Total Miles For January: 48 miles
Total Miles For 2016: 48 miles
Current Shoes: 175 miles

Knew I wouldn’t be able to get to my Saturday run due to other weekend events, so squeezed in this 8-miler before dinner plans kicked in.

Start time: 1/13/2016, 6:05 am
Location: WSC Clarendon
Distance: 7 miles
Average pace: 9:29 min/mile
Total Miles For January: 40 miles
Total Miles For 2016: 40 miles
Current Shoes: 167 miles

It was a bit too cold out today (with the windchill, at 5:40am, it felt like 7 degrees) so another crappy treadmill run, complete with a person who took the one next to me even with other ones available. Also, the new bluetooth sweatproof headphones apparently cannot stay in one’s ears if one is sweating. Ugh.

Cut the run a tiny bit short to get into the office to let someone else in, but it was an annoying enough run that it’s probably just as well.

Start time: 1/6/2016, 6:00am
Location: WSC Clarendon
Distance: 8 miles
Average pace: 9:43 min/mile
Total Miles For January: 16 miles
Total Miles For 2016: 16 miles
Current Shoes: 143 miles

A combination of cold temperatures and not feeling great resulted in bagging Monday’s run. Still wasn’t entirely up to the great freeze (although it was better out this morning than Monday was!) so I ended up going on the treadmill. (Plus if I started feeling bad it would be easier to stop.)

Didn’t stop, which was a victory, but I was definitely flagging a lot on the last two miles and took a minute walk break at the start of each. All in all not bad (and glad I got the distance in) but clearly not back up to full levels of energy. On the bright side I got a massage on Sunday and the work on the IT band definitely helped with the knee! Easily the least problematic since Norman OK.

Start time: 12/29/2015, 6:20 am
Location: WSC Clarendon
Distance: 7 miles
Average pace: 9:29 min/mile
Total Miles For December: 49 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 839 miles
Current Shoes: 120 miles

Cold and rain was the weather prediction this morning, so I made plans to just go directly to the gym (normally visited after the run so I can shower on my way to the office) and use the… ugh… treadmill. The usual overheating occurred, but also a bit of annoyance when it comes to personal space.

There were eleven treadmills in a line. I was on treadmill #9. Someone else came along and took #11. That’s fine, no problem, all the other ones were still open. Then someone else came in and used… #10. Really? Really? Really? On the bright side I was a big sweaty mess by the time it was over so hopefully I reeked enough that he regretted his (bad) decision.

Start time: 10/28/2015, 6:30 am
Location: WSC Silver Spring
Distance: 8 miles
Average pace: 9:19 min/mile
Total Miles For October: 75 miles
Total Miles For 2015: 677 miles
Current Shoes: 370 miles

It was supposed to pour down rain this morning (it didn’t) so I ended up going to the gym for (ugh) the hated treadmill. And all in all, it actually was pretty good. It helps that it’s cool out and they haven’t switched on the heat yet so I didn’t turn into a complete furnace. But I was thinking that wow, this worked pretty well…

…then I got home and took off my shoes and socks and discovered that the pointer toe, which with the current shoes seems to get bruised a bit more than normal, had a blood blister burst and soaked the sock with blood. Aaaaaarrrrrggghhhhhh so gross.