OK, time for winter to be over now. Great to see you, it was fun, here's your hat and coat what's your hurry...BUH-bye now.
Or, is it just me that feels this way?
What kicked this off was watching part of the Today show this morning. They're broadcasting from Miami Beach, FL today, where it's in the 80s. Oh and it was sunny, too.
Don't get me wrong...I enjoy winter, most of the time. But this one has been unusually cold and snowy, and (to get the post back to running,), it makes it next to impossible to run outside. It's typically not light enough to run safely until about 6:30 or 7:00AM, which is too late for me to get out given the length of my mid-week runs now.
As I've mentioned before, the indoor track is an absolute Godsend. One of the neat things is I can catch the sunrise through the east-facing windows, and I get to watch as the sky lights up gradually. It makes that particular portion of each lap something I really look forward to.
And I had some good runs this week--one 5 miler that I was able to do at a sub-9:30 pace. If I can keep that pace for the Shamrock Shuffle in a few weeks, I'll set a new PR by a couple minutes and will qualify for a faster corral next year.
Tomorrow I'm flying out to California for a week-long work meeting. I'll get to do my Sunday AM long run on a path that runs alongside the San Francisco bay, and I always enjoy the scenery in that area which will be nice.
One last thing...Michelle posted a comment where she asked about what podcasts I listen to. I've been checking out a few running podcasts recently, so look for a post here soon with some reviews/links of what I like and listen to.
Happy running!
Friday, February 22, 2008
I am SO done with winter...
Thursday, January 24, 2008
C-C-C-C-C-COLD......
It's cold here...like really deep, bone chilling, deep freeze, water freezes in about a nanosecond cold.
I left my house at 5:45AM to get my training run in--thank you, God, for an indoor track less than a mile from my house (which I drove to, thankyewverymuch)! The temperature gauge in my car showed -9F. At 7AM it'd warmed up to a balmy -4F. YUK.
It's so cold, I'd rather just stay at home all the time--no training outside, no going out for dinner, no coming to work--just a nice warm house, my fuzzy warm houseshoes, and my coffee machine. Oh well...
One bright spot, though--tonight is the premiere night for the movie Spirit of the Marathon. My blog pal Tim Wilson mentioned this movie in one of his posts, and I got a bunch of friends interested in going. One of my friends joked that we should take a taxi to the theater (4 miles away), because we'd be so inspired we'd want to run back! Uh, with an air temperature of probably 2F...not so much.