“I will smoke P. Diddy like a cheap cigar.” IdleWords on training for marathons. I go running along the Mall once or twice a week (it really should be at least three times a week, but I’m not the morning person I once was), which is a five mile run from the Capitol to Lincoln Memorial and back again. I can never make the whole stretch; most of the time I get lazy when I reach Old Abe and take the Metro back home.