5+ miles, 55 minutes — a nice cool day, and the noon break (from a class I'm taking in the Reston area) gives me enough time to jog ~0.7 miles to the Washington & Old Dominion trail where it crosses Sunset Hills Road. I head east, from milepost 16 to 14 and then reverse course. Average pace for the first half of the journey is ~9:20, but I tire and the second half is ~10:30, still quite fast for me historically. "Rod" overtakes me near the end and introduces himself.

(correlates: SpasmodicHercules, 2008-07-19 - WOD Trail Trek, 2007-09-15 - AT Point-to-Point, ...)