Here I go again!

Went to Annapolis and did a 30-mile road biking loop along the bay and the famous town of St. Michaels. Took a short ferry ride to get across one part of the bay, pretty cool. Tendon hurts. grrrrrrrr. Biked to the thai food restaurant to pick up some food and biked back, 2 extra miles for me!

Biked to the office from Bethesda, 10 miles. Did some work I had left from Friday - nice being in the office when nobody is around! In the afternoon I ran to Ballston to see my friend Sangeeta and how her recovery was going. Hot and muggy... felt really tired, went really slow. Not sure why I'm so tired lately... need to watch my food better. May be the heat, but it's not that bad yet... maybe I need to get used to it.

Note to self: stop making stupid bets or you'll end up having to run wearing all sorts of colors and statements...

Bridges run after work, 4.5 miles, rainy and cool, perfect running weather. Took a detour in Georgetown and made the BIG mistake of stopping at the Lululemon store... their running tops and shorts are soooo cute but soooo expensive! But soooo cute... I had to have one... my only vice: running stuff... I have NEVER paid that much money for regular clothes... 

Went back to the office, got my backpack, ran 1 mile to the Dupont metro, metroed to Bethesda, ran 1 mile on the CCT. The CCT was dark and very dangerous, I won't do that again alone...

Before work: 1 mile on CCT to Bethesda metro, 1 mile from Dupont metro to office

After work: 4.5 miles from the office to check on Sangeeta (Ballston)

2.67 miles from Sangeeta's to the Rosslyn metro

Was planning on taking the metro home but the metro broke down on me, so I transferred and went to Union Station... was going to take a bus but it looked crowded and i was sweaty, so I ran home. I got home at the exact same time as the bus. It stops almost on every block, it's ridiculous! Make people walk a little, right?

2.1 miles from Union Station home.

Total: 11.27 miles. Feeling good.
 

Ran to the office, 5.5 miles in the morning. Weird, no matter how slow or fast I think I'm going, I always get to the office in 45 minutes.

May do more in the afternoon, not sure.

Help me decide which headband to get:

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Ran from the office to Chevy Chase circle, a very hilly run around nice residential neighborhoods. Feeling tired but not bad. Shins hurt a bit - next week it'll be a taper week...

From Chevy Chase to the Bethesda metro (1) and from the Dupont metro to the office (1).

Walked from the office to the other end of Georgetown to get a belly dancing costume for a party tomorrow, then from Georgetown to Dupont. No running... lazy me...

I really shouldn't put zero here... but technically, I didn't go running... Once or twice a month I volunteer with an organization called KEEN (Kids Enjoy Exercise Now), playing sports with children and teens with cognitive disabilities. Oh boy, kids have so much energy! It's only a couple of hours, but by the end you are truly spent. I participated in the music program this time, so we did lots of singing, playing with different musical instruments, and dancing. Every once in a while one of the kids took off running so fast, I wanted to hire him as a coach! You would've thought we were torturing them, cause they were trying to escape all the time... Too funny...

After that I volunteered as course marshall at a local race, the first Capitol Striders 8k, on the Capitol Crescent trail. As soon as I got to the start line, the course director asked me to get on a men's road bike with an odometer, holding the mile marker signs on one hand, and stopping and posting them every mile... Why he asked me to do this knowing about my luck with bicycles, I don't know... But I did it, and survived. Then monitored the course to make sure the bikers knew there was a race going on, and took some pictures. Boy were some bikers mad! Ridiculous. It was a fun time. I should've ran before or after the race... but didn't.

Went to an Arabic-themed party at night, so much fun! My costume was very conservative so I'd post pictures, but in all the pics I'm dancing with girls that were not embarrassed to show their "talents" :)

A girl from Colombia and I were laughing cause we had trouble learning some of the moves, because they are so specific... Latinas are more used to moving everything at the same time, like when you dance salsa or merengue. But they said I didn't do so bad. Need to practice more!