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.