Monumental Monument Run!

My friend Kayla’s friend Michelle wanted to run the monuments today and invited me to join them. I then invited my friend Amy to join as well since all 4 of us are running the Cherry Blossom 10 miler in April. This was my first “group run” ever.  We planned to run part of the Mount Vernon Trail over the Memorial Bridge to the Mall. 

I was worried about being super slow, but we all were able to stay together chatting. We kept to ~11 min mile which was perfect. We ended up covering 5.25 miles (my longest run since Marine Corps Marathon). We chatted back at our cars after the run and made plans to run Rock Creek Park in MD next weekend. 

Note: That is a stock photo fromt he web, but is that bridge we ran over heading towards the monuments!