7.5mi, 64:48

Michael Kamen, "Band of Brothers Suite No. 2"
Philip Glass, opening credits to Hamburger Hill

WX at 0600: 73.0 (22.8), BP 69.1 (20.6), DP 30.04 (1017), NNW 8 overcast, RH 87%

Odometer 4: 7.5mi

Z3 high.
Resting heart rate before start = no reading.

New shoes! I decided it was time to retire the Asics Gel-Cumulus shoes I'd been running the last, oh, about 10 months and go get some new ones. I scored the last Asics GT-2100s that were in the post exchange. From what I can tell, they're discontinuing carrying it, which is going to suck, because I can't beat the $70 they sell it for anywhere else. The shoe anywhere else ends up being over a $90 shoe.

To get to Fort Myer, though, I ended up hopping a taxi. No big deal. Since I didn't feel like paying $6.65 to get back, though, I ended up walking back to the Doubletree at Pentagon City, where my class is staying while we conduct the Interagency staff ride portion of the class (i.e., tour various places in town and ask pointed questions not for attribution)

The walk back to the hotel was along Courthouse Road, Columbia Pike, and Army Navy Drive. About 40 minutes, actually not a bad walk. I suspect that makes up for the amount of chow I ingested yesterday (a considerable amount).

Today's run was along the Mount Vernon Trail. The usual quotient of curvy people in technical running garb, some not so attractive, some blisteringly hot. I was averaging about 8:25/mi or so. That was a pleasant surprise. So was all the scenery...

Splits
enter trail 10:51
mile 19:10 (8:18)
mile 27:42 (8:32)
partial 33:40 (5:57)
partial 39:48 (6:08)
mile 48:11 (8:22)
mile 56:42 (8:30)
exit trail 64:48 (8:06) different route