4.5 miles, 38:22
I was just singing the praises of the Garmin Forerunner last week but today, it did me no good at all. First off it is missing several miles of distance that I’m sure I ran. It only managed to gather four positions over the entire run. Secondly, I got lost and tried to use it to get back to a trail and since it didn’t have sync with the satellite at the start it pointed me in the wrong direction. Luckily, I ignored it.
Rock Creek Park is huge. At one point I thought I had wondered up into Maryland. I wasn’t lost so much as disoriented. Unfortunately, it is getting dark very early here so even starting at 4:30PM doesn’t leave much daylight. Running in the near dark on trails is no picnic. I might experiment with a head lamp.