Wednesday after work I joined Team Challenge coaches and a few other runners on the National Mall. It was a beautiful Summer evening. On our 3.25 mile run from 7th Street to the Lincoln Memorial and back, we passed softball games, kickball games, touch football games, frisbee throwers, other runners, and tourists. Feeling especially charged with the atmosphere around me, confident about being on relatively flat ground, and wanting to keep up with my teammates, I pushed it early and struggled down the home stretch.
run-walk pattern in minutes:
5-1-12-1-6-1
1.5-0.5-5-2
But I survived and was still able to walk three blocks to the fundraising clinic and six blocks back to my car. Now, the fundraising clinic was on the rooftop deck of a building at just south of the Mall. While we listened to some tips on fundraising, we watched the sun set over the Washington Monument and had a perfect view of the Capitol.. Beautiful evening.
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