6.2 mi, 54:30, 8:47 avg
After missing Friday and Saturday due to weather, travel, and being tired from travel and not enough drive to overcome the obstacles I was able to run thanks to my brother-in-law John (might have still run without him but would have probably been boring run up and down his street.
John took Jacob and I to the W&OD trail (Washington and Old Dominion) - rails to trails running/biking trail in Virginia about 44 miles long.
I took off first since I wanted to do 3 miles and John and Jacob were going to run 3. My garmin is kind of messed up so the battery was nearly dead when I turned it on. I didn't have a regular watch either so I carried my phone and used its stopwatch (I don't have a running app either). About a minute and a half into the run I saw a mile marker (have these every 0.5 miles) and hit the lap button on each one (was going to write them down but lost them).
I started out about a ten minute/mile pace and was just under 9 minute pace at the turn around. Weather was perfect and the trail was a pleasure to run on. Second to last half mile I remember was 3:40 and then I felt like I was going even faster after that. When I wasn't far from the last marker my phone switched to low power mode and I lost the stopwatch screen, but got it back after pushing some buttons and had the last lap finished in 3:44 which should have been faster if not for the technical difficulties.
John and Jacob were back and sitting on a bench with coffee when I finished, we then headed to a bagel place and I went into the Dunkin Donuts next door so we could bring back bagels and donuts for everyone else.
Spent some time in DC mall area that afternoon to see some monuments before heading to the airport for the trip back.
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