Start time: 3/5/13, 5:00pm
Location: Rock Creek Park
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 9:08min/mile
Total Miles For March: 16 miles
Total Miles For 2013: 88 miles
Current Shoes: 282 miles

After missing Monday’s run (“Feels like 16 degrees” from weather.com is apparently my limit for what I am willing to put myself through), and with snow on the horizon for tomorrow morning, I figured I needed to knock off a few miles at the hated gym treadmill after work today. But then something crazy happened… it got up to 50 degrees. And I couldn’t let that go to waste.

So, I mapped out a 4-mile route, changed into my gym clothes, used my “emergency jacket” as well since it wasn’t quite warm enough for just a short-sleeve shirt, drove halfway home and parked in Rock Creek Park at the parking lot right by Beach Drive and Blagden Rd, and then ran and used the time on my This American Life podcast as a stopwatch. Worked pretty well! By the time I was done it was starting to get a little dark, or I might’ve thrown on two more for good measure. But four is better than zero! And since this might have to hold me over until Saturday, that’s a victory.