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temve at 08:30pm on 03/02/2011
temve at 08:30pm on 03/02/2011No, it's not Monday and this is about as far from a weekly check-in post as it gets, but feel free to check in anyway!
It may be hard to believe, especially to those of you digging yourselves out from the masses of snow brought about by the recent blizzard, but another winter's almost over, and I'd love to hear how you managed to get through it.
I, in no particular order:
a. spent the best part of a week confined to my house with the flu
b. ran across a newborn sand dune deposited by the January river floods - it will be an awesome beach-oid come summer, but right now it's right across the damn trail
c. reacquainted myself with why I don't like treadmills
d. ran in sub-freezing temperatures, bundled up in two layers of long sleeves and pants and being honked at by cars
e. acquired a really ugly but nifty and very cheap white fleece vest that keeps my core nice and toasty
f. forgot my headphones every time there was something worth watching on the TVs at the gym - unlike the rest of the sporting population that evening, I'm actually interested in Roman history
g. forgot my stupid socks but didn't realise it until after I'd already paid my gym entry fee and thus spent 5K running sockless before getting a blister, giving in, and being reduced to biking for the weekend
h. signed up for a half-marathon in mid March, which sounds a lot less crazy now than it did when I signed up for it
i. made my short runs longer (about 8K) - now to make the long runs (about 10K) longer too!
j. ran 18.6K on the last sunny day of autumn; had cold hands and excellent radio signal throughout
k. ran 5K in under 30 minutes one memorable time in freezing January
l. just today, to my great surprise, ran 10-minute miles: 5 of them in a row. And the feeling that I could have done even more of those without exhausting myself made me quite wide-eyed for a moment...
I guess I'm a real runner now. Huh.
How was your winter?
It may be hard to believe, especially to those of you digging yourselves out from the masses of snow brought about by the recent blizzard, but another winter's almost over, and I'd love to hear how you managed to get through it.
I, in no particular order:
a. spent the best part of a week confined to my house with the flu
b. ran across a newborn sand dune deposited by the January river floods - it will be an awesome beach-oid come summer, but right now it's right across the damn trail
c. reacquainted myself with why I don't like treadmills
d. ran in sub-freezing temperatures, bundled up in two layers of long sleeves and pants and being honked at by cars
e. acquired a really ugly but nifty and very cheap white fleece vest that keeps my core nice and toasty
f. forgot my headphones every time there was something worth watching on the TVs at the gym - unlike the rest of the sporting population that evening, I'm actually interested in Roman history
g. forgot my stupid socks but didn't realise it until after I'd already paid my gym entry fee and thus spent 5K running sockless before getting a blister, giving in, and being reduced to biking for the weekend
h. signed up for a half-marathon in mid March, which sounds a lot less crazy now than it did when I signed up for it
i. made my short runs longer (about 8K) - now to make the long runs (about 10K) longer too!
j. ran 18.6K on the last sunny day of autumn; had cold hands and excellent radio signal throughout
k. ran 5K in under 30 minutes one memorable time in freezing January
l. just today, to my great surprise, ran 10-minute miles: 5 of them in a row. And the feeling that I could have done even more of those without exhausting myself made me quite wide-eyed for a moment...
I guess I'm a real runner now. Huh.
How was your winter?
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