1:11:36. 4 mile steady state run + 2.5 mile wu and 2 mile cd. Got up at 5 to run (3 my time) because our meeting today started at 7 (we worked from 8 - 7 last night with a 30 min lunch break). I am exhausted. It takes us somewhere between 2-3 hours to review one grant. These grants are huge (about 500 pages/grant) and worth a whole bunch of money. It was dark and windy -- the Rock Creek Trail was about 2+ miles from my hotel, once I got on the trail it was even darker because there are no lights, but the moonlight came through the trees just enough for me to "mostly" see in front of me (I did run off the trail once into a mud puddle, almost fell!). I was a little worried I was going to run off the trail and fall into the creek, but luckily that never happened ;-). The worst part was that it was very windy and there were tree branches all over the trail - I could not see these until I was right on top of them so my legs are all cut up and bruised from being hit by them -- I kept wondering what would happen if I did a face plant and got knocked out -- it would take hours and hours before anyone would find me and they wouldn't know who I was because I did not have any id on me ... and the NIH group would be really mad! I am not sure I was actually running the exact pace I was supposed to, but the effort was solid, and I felt like I was able to get a solid run in. Unfortunately, there is no way I can run my evening run tonight ... | 