Good morning and happy Sunday!
I hope you’re all enjoying your weekends — I just wanted to pop in and share some fun photos from earlier this week. I had the best run on Tuesday night with my college BFF Turner (aka Laura… I always use her nickname)! She recently moved to DC and lives right by the zoo, so instead of going to my usual Tuesday night run club we decided to meet up in her hood for a change of scenery and a one-on-one catch up sesh.
I don’t come to this area of the city nearly enough. I was pretty pumped about the zoo! Did you know the zoo in DC is totally free? Pretty sweet — it’s part of the Smithsonian/museum stuff, which is also all free!
This photo is like Where’s Waldo — see me?
You can run right through the zoo to get to one of the Rock Creek trail entrances — perfect!
We stopped a couple times in the zoo along the way to check out the animals, obviously. 🙂
How freaking adorable is this red panda?!??! Turner and I were obsessed. I want one.
Oh hey, just an elephant sighting in the middle of our run, no big deal.
Once out of the zoo, it was on to Rock Creek Park!
It was such a lovely night for a run and the park was gorgeous.
Blurry action shot.
We finished the run out strong — the last mile was essentially all uphill back through the zoo! Oof.
5 miles in 45:42. Done! Our pace was a little all over the place since we were on trails for some of it, but here are the splits. I’m impressed our pace was still pretty good for the last mile that was all uphill!
- Mile 1: 8:40
- Mile 2: 9:37
- Mile 3: 9:00
- Mile 4: 9:10
- Mile 5: 9:14
Average overall pace: 9:08. Yay!
We hit up Turner’s apartment gym after the run for some ab work and stretching, and then headed to a place in Cleveland Park called Nam Viet for dinner. We both got pho (mine with chicken, hers with beef) — it hit the spot big time! We also shared some fresh garden summer rolls before the soup.
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Yum. Such a fun night with a good friend. We’re going to plan weekly exercise + dinner dates, sometimes cooking, sometimes going out. I love combining being productive and getting in a workout with socializing! 🙂
Have a wonderful Sunday — Matt and I are headed out to enjoy the sunshine and then making a trip out to our wedding venue later today with my mom for a vendor planning meeting for the big day! Can’t believe how soon it is.
