3.99 miles, 32:02
My friend Space was in town for the holidays so we went for a run in Rock Creek Park. Unfortunately, about half way through he slipped a bit in the mud and twisted his ankle. He tried to walk on it for a bit but it was clearly badly sprained. I high-tailed it back to the car to drive around and pick him up. The park trails are treacherous when it has recently rained. Had I know that his ankle was sore to begin with I would have suggested we stick to the pavement. We were not moving particularly fast and we had already traversed steeper sections which just serves to demonstrate that one can spraining an ankle is all too easy.
On the up side, I received a new Garmin Forerunner 205 from my Dad for Christmas. I’ll do a full write up of it soon but, on this maiden voyage it performed wonderfully. It picked up the signal fairly quickly and kept it for the duration. The red line in the map is connecting where we stopped and I turned the unit off while we walked to see if Space’s ankle would recover. This wasn’t exactly the route that the previous unit had trouble with but, I’ll test it out there soon enough.