i'm looking for a new, d.c.-based running partner to run in the city (anywhere from the mall to mass. ave to glover archibald park) to run with me. i used to run with my marathon-training coworker, but now that the marathon's over and done with, she's taken to running on a treadmill at her gym. and i don't blame her. it's cold out there. unfortunately, i no longer have that luxury, as i canceled my gym membership months ago, feeling that i was too robust and wild to run on an unfeeling, boring machine any longer. stupid me.

said partner would be willing to run with me 2-3 times a week, twice during post-work evenings and possibly once on the weekends, 4-6 miles each time (or longer, if you feel like it). normally i'd be happy to run by myself, bopping along to my ipod, and i often did in the summertime and fall, but frankly, it's getting a little too dark out there for me to feel comfortable hoofing it alone on rock creek parkway, aka Rape Lane.

c'mon, it'll be fun! i will be master to your pupil, pat morita to your ralph macchio, um....mickey to your rocky. etc. if you've been looking to start running, now's your chance. don't think you can't do it; i barely ran and was in extremely poor cardiovascular shape before i bizarrely decided to start just running all over the place. and it's fun! if you run, you can eat and drink whatever you want. if you run, you will develop calf muscles the size of grapefruits. if you run, you'll constantly be buzzing on endorphins. sounds nice, eh?

so. wanna run?