Start time: 11/08/05, 6:30pm
Location: Clarendon & Wilson Boulevards
Distance: 2.7 miles
Average pace: 9:28min/mile

A funny story by way of introduction. Before I ever started up this crazy running thing, I remember seeing people run up and down Wilson Boulevard (while eating dinner at Whitlow’s) and thinking how everyone who ran by looked really buff and athletic, and how cool it would be to be like them.

Fast-forward half a decade… and I’d finally gotten off my butt post-marathon and out running. Nine days of no running and apparently that’s all it takes for me to be huffing and puffing as I did a loop around the neighborhood. I just felt beat after a mile or so. Still, the important thing was to get back out there, finally.