There are many airports in my system that are unforgiving in winter or with a contaminated runway. I am based at DCA and fly to LGA and BOS quite often. We also see Providence and other airports with shorter runways.
DCA is not the place in winter to go looking for a "greaser". It's time to get on the pavement and get on the binders to find out just what you have. If is a rather queasy feeling to give the airplane totally over to the anti-skid and simply sit there and listen to it jerk and rattle. It does a very good job by the way but it is doing the stopping not me.
You don't necessarily have to bang it on but runway behind you is useless.