Ted's Bulletin--New Restaurant on Capitol Hill

After running a 10K race today, Shane and I had lunch at Ted's Bulletin on Captiol Hill Barrack's Row.  It's a new restaurant that has just been open for 8 days. 

We both had a burger and a chocolate milkshake.  I loved my milkshake, but Shane was disappointed.  He thought it tasted like it was make with Hershey's syrup. 

Although it said on the menu that they serve breakfast anytime, they didn't have breakfast available.  It is a diner and they weren't serving breakfast.  They explained their goal is to have breakfast anytime, but they aren't there yet. 

The burgers were good, but the cost of two burgers with milkshakes and tip was $45.  Not exactly diner prices.  We'll try it again though eventually. 

The photos above are from their Web site.  It wasn't empty when we were there.  It was full with people waiting to get in.

Running the Capitol Hill Classic 10K

Today was the 31st running of the Capitol Hill Classic 10K race.  The race benefits the Capitol Hill Cluster School, a DC public school serving about 1,000 students from pre-school through 8th grade.

My goal was to finish in less than 50 minutes.  My clock time was 50 minutes and 15 seconds, but my net time was 49 minutes and 19 seconds, with an average of a 7 minute 57 second mile.  Of the 1,135 men that ran the race, I came in 378th.  In my age range (45-49 year olds), I came in 33rd out of 94 racers.  For some reason they divide the results into men and women separately.  There were many woman who beat me also, but I have way of knowing how I ranked overall among both sexes.

Running with Blue Shirt

 I was very happy with my results.  It was a perfect day for a race.  It wasn't too warm or too cool or too humid.  The toughest part of that race is running up Capitol Hill.  It comes in the last mile of the race and it is a bitch.  I could have used my blue sponge.  I was struggling.  Anyway, I made it up the hill and was able to recover enough to sprint the last few blocks to the finish.

Interestingly (to me at least), I ran this same race 2 years ago with a net time of 50 minutes 17 seconds.  I'm 2 years older and almost a minute faster.  It isn't a huge improvement, but it is better than getting worse.