~12.8 miles @ ~11.4 min/mi

"'You were right - I was wrong', says Mark," says Emaad, "and you must begin your report with that!" Banter goes meta in the final mile along Rock Creek Trail. Today's trek begins with Barry, hoping for magic from a corticosteroid shot in the hip on Thursday, still suffering. He accompanies Rebecca and me downstream and back, then sends us on ahead after Emaad joins us at mile ~2.

Temperatures rise from near freezing into the upper 30's. We meet Gayatri and a friend on the Matthew Henson Trail and fist-bump. Chatter includes head-shaking at current political discourse, reviews of classic Clint Eastwood movies, thoughts on refugees from Vietnam and more recently the Middle East, and the obligatory runner injury analysis.

(trackfile) - ^z - 2016-03-22