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: 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…

Start time: 3/15/12, 5:51am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 4.53 miles
Average pace: 10:51min/mile
Total Miles For March: 32 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 220 miles
Current Shoes: 16 miles

So, after last Thursday’s run… I got sick. Thought it was a cold. Then it was a sinus infection. Then came the antibiotics. Fun. Ended up with an unplanned week off. Ran on Thursday morning to make sure everything was working enough for Saturday’s marathon. Not great, not bad either. Will take the race easy and life is good enough, right? Time for bed!

Start time: 2/23/12, 6:00am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 4.24 miles
Average pace: 9:42min/mile
Total Miles For February: 76 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 160 miles
Current Shoes: 193 miles

On Monday morning (preparing to fly home) I found myself coming down with a cold, so I skipped all exercise for Mon-Wed, and did a shortened run on Thursday with John. Aside from a runny nose at times, no real problems. It’s nice when a cold ends up being short-lived.

Start time: 8/16/11, 6:00am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 4.1 miles
Average pace: 10:28min/mile
Total Miles For August: 27 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 457 miles

For the past two months I’ve been a little bad about updating my running log. Finally put them all in yesterday (although I “backdated” all but the triathlon so if you’re reading via an LJ Friends Feed, you didn’t get flooded)… and then failed to actually enter yesterday’s run.

Anyway, I took all of last week off because my left knee has been a little sore for the first half mile of my runs (and on my last 14-miler a week and a half ago, got sore again toward the end of the run). Been stretching, taking it easy, that sort of thing. And then it finally hit me yesterday what the problem may very well be: I’m way overdue to change my shoes. As in, at 128% of the amount run on them before I normally swap them out. Whoops.

(And in the past when I’ve done this, I’ve had some knee soreness.)

So while I had more soreness at the start of the run yesterday, I have my new shoes today. So hopefully by Thursday or Saturday everything should be back to normal?

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.

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.

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.