a barrel of this

I haven’t run for some time because of some problems with my feet which became annoying enough when I wasn’t running to seek out a new orthopedist. The last ortho told me that my running career was over and that I had impact arthritis. It was high time I found someone who understood runners. […]

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. […]

Today I finally got to run over the Rock Creek trellis bridge along the Georgetown branch trail (also known as the interim Capital Crescent trail). I had been close to it on previous runs and in fact I parked and started from where I had turned around in the past thinking I was far from […]

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 […]

Well this was a big disaster. I intended to go out running for 30 minutes then head back home for a meeting. 50 minutes later and I’m running in the pitch black darkness wondering if I’m my boss will forgive me. I determined that the bridge that I had found a while back was not […]

Today was a warm day but, I didn’t have much time so I just went down to the track. Lap times:

1.02 m, 6:09
1.00m, 6:12
1.01m, 6:47

Probably not the best idea to get back into things by doing “speed work” (it was more like a tempo run with breaks between each mile). I’m anxious to get going […]

I cut this run short to enjoy some time walking with my lady. It has been bitter cold here this week.