~12.7 mi @ ~14.5 min/mi

"Slow down - Caution Tape ahead!" Crabby saves Roadkill, who thinks he sees a finish-line ribbon and starts to sprint. Not for the first time! The duo cut their pace after a few miles when Crabby's knee gets crabby.

Drizzle has stopped; there's only ~0.001 the mud and puddles that friends doing the Seneca Creek 50k are enjoying this fine day. Lovely canine ornaments decorate lawns in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, and Kensington.

"Does a gender-fluid one-person pronoun 'they' act as singular or plural for its verb? Does one say, 'They is wearing their dress'?" A pair of picky grammarians debate edge-cases in modern language. Pippi Roadkill plays Thing-Finder and arrives home with 2 Metro farecards, a happy-face pencil, a discarded yarmulke, and a fancy steel pocket-tool.

At mile 11 he attacks the Mormon Temple Hill and does a 5:55 half mile climb, much-needed prep for the "Runamuck 50k" in Vermont that he fantasizes about attempting in mid-April. Don't remind him about the DC Marathon 8 days away!

(trackfile) - ^z - 2019-04-23