Holy Springtime, Batman!
In the course of my last 4 runs, I’ve gone from 21 degrees and windy with slush falling from the sky to 68 degrees and sunny with a slight breeze. Just in between these last two runs, the temperature went up 25 degrees! It’s been three months since I [...]
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Back out there.
So after nearly two weeks on an exercise machine, yesterday the temperature abruptly jumped, and I got out on the road to run again. It was rough. The machines may keep your aerobic fitness up, but they don’t keep your feet and joints ready for all that impacting, and [...]
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Still Fighting!
Just a quick update. It seems I have to amend my temperature rule on runs to include wind-chill. Today was around 30 degrees, according to the forecast, until I went out to run, and nearly had the skin flayed off my face! I’ve never had the tip of my [...]
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Fighting the Elements
Ugh! So after one sub-twenty-degree run in the new year, I instituted a policy of no more sub-twenty-degree runs! At least until I find some gear that protects my nose and lungs while I run, anyway. Who knew you could freeze your nose hairs? Also, as it turns out, huffing [...]
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Much More Believable Inconsistency…
Well, between bad weather, life’s little surprises, and winter grumpiness, I missed a whole week of running. I got out there this morning fully expecting a slow, painful run full of suffering! I was right about the pain and suffering, but surprisingly, not about the slow. I actually beat [...]
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I Long for a Little Boredom…
The weather the last two weeks has made running dangerous, difficult, and confusing, but I’m certainly not bored! There’s been snow on the ground for two runs (not adjacent, of course), a below freezing run, a mid-sixties run, and run with so much sun and heat I felt like it [...]
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Freakin’ Snow?!?!?
I knew it had happened. I’d heard the weather reports. I’d seen the first signs the night before. None of that prepared me for the shock and dread of opening the front door to confront my first snow-run. Never mind for a moment the surprise of seeing pre-Halloween snow in [...]
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