3 mile run @ Capitol Hill today!

Today I biked to & from work...  but also ran at lunchtime for the first time!  My friend met me in the front of the office bldg at 12pm.  He agreed to run up to the Capitol Hill Bike Store, so I could get a much needed cap/nut for my front bike wheel.  (Capitol Hill gave me the cap/nut for free btw... which made the run worth it lol)

 So, instead of running to the Monument or Jefferson Memorial as previously planned... we ran up Capitol Hill.

I keep saying ran up Capitol Hill b/c it's really a good incline!  Running up Independence Ave and on Penn Ave, we passed tons of delis, cafes, and restaurants.  It was such a beautiful day, many people were enjoying their lunches outside.  And I really felt the hill, but kept 

going knowing it would flatten eventually... eventually I kept telling myself. lol 

Then we had to make a right on Penn Ave and then to 8th Street.  It was a total of 1.5 miles to the store according to my GPS... perfect! I thought and then my friend encouraged me to run back to the office... but we ran on the other side of the Capitol Bldg and it was all d

own hill!!  So 3 miles today and it felt much better than I would have expected. 

He's great to run with and even better is that he wants to meet everyday to run @ lunchtime.  So I believe I should change my biking routine a bit, while I introduce the running.  I thought this week I could try out biking every other day - Mon, Wed, and Fri, while running everyday.  I'm really going to miss biking to work tomorrow... but excited to see how the running goes!

Oh and my new running shoes felt great! :-)  The picture of the Capitol Bldg is from last year when I was walking around DC... now I'm running in DC lol