Running in the snow
Alright - did what was on my training schedule tonight - 17 minute tempo run. The thing that made this run interesting was the snow - it was snowing like crazy for the first 10 minutes, then it turned into some kind of freakin' hail or sleet or some crap like that - like little salt pellets nailing me in the face. Not all that bad though and actually I was getting into the whole 'misery' aspect of it - cold weather, snow/sleet, dark streets, wrong shoes (left my running shoes at the gym at work), and that whole scene. I really had a good time which was a nice change for me - several of the last few runs have just been robotic - no emotion to them at all - this was a good time in that bizarre "I'm into pain" way. Little Eddie went with me and did great. He's training for his first 5k - he's run a couple of 1 mile fun runs but yet to do a 5k and he's into it. He did great and is going to be a fun training partner on these mid-week maintenance runs.
posted by Ed @ 11:22 PM
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That's great that Eddie's doing the 5K too! What a running family. :) I definitely understand about getting into the "misery" part of training. :)
That's the fun part of running in bad weather, you feel all hardcore! Good for Eddie for being hardcore too!!
Well - I have my long run scheduled for today - let's see what today's after-run post reads like! He's really getting into the running, in his words, "to build endurance" which I assume he means for his swimming that he does competitively now, and so he can get whatever medal the races give out. Works for me!
I love that he is so into sports and working out...can't wait to see videos of the kids in swimming and gymnastics!: )
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