a barrel of this

Snow! Today was my first run in the snow (as an adult). It has been snowing steadily for a few hours now and I wanted to get out there before it got too thick to run through. Something about snow just makes the city seem much friendlier. A few people said hello to me which […]

Okay, today I made up for lost speed. I kept roughly a 6:45 pace for this run mainly because I only had a short amount of time between meetings. Today was also my first run in what can be considered cold weather. It was 33 degrees when I left the house and the sun was […]

Inexplicably I seem to be slowing down. I’ve been cross-training by riding my bike attached to a trainer in my basement for around 20 minutes a day. Yet all of my runs have been slower since I started doing that. I think I need to increase the resistance on the bike trainer and make it […]

My brother-in-law recently pointed out how he dislikes driving to the start of a run. I don’t much like it either so I decided to start seeking out runs that started or ended from my front door or with a metro ride. Today I wanted to attack the Capital Crescent Trail from the other direction. […]