I didn't bring my iPhone, because it's bad when you slip and fall on it, so you'll have to take my word that I wore black tights, black turtleneck (under my sweater and jacket!). Oh, and a black toque, black gloves, and black neckwarmer. Kind of like what I wore for this run. Except it wasn't so cold!
That's right, it wasn't so cold today... but it is snowing. Not the lovely big, fluffy flakes that kiss your cheeks, the tiny little ice daggers that stab out your eyes. Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, but they do kind of hurt the eyes!
Still, the run was quite the adventure. As you can see from the details below from my Garmin, it's a hilly route, and not very well cleared of snow. In fact, the longest hill was punctuated with snow drifts-- only about 3-6 inches deep, but it was like running on river rocks- slippery, unsure footing. And the steep parts were particularly slippery!
Right now, we're just taking a little break from putting up the Christmas decorations... the tree is up! I'll post some photos later in the week. When do you put up your tree? Do you put one up at all?
Cool run. We start TALKING about Christmas decorations on Thanksgiving but actually DO it about mid month.
ReplyDeleteAnd people wondered why I didn't run today. I'm just fine with cold, not so good with slippery. We put our tree up Christmas eve.
ReplyDeleteYou are decorating your house - so fun!!! My tree is 2 feet tall from the base to the tree topper and I will likely get it up this week, once we figure out where. My housemate has a taller tree - I think it's 3.5 feet, and hopefully she will also want to put it up this week.
ReplyDeleteHats off to you getting it done in the snow! No Christmas decorating here yet...I wait a couple more weeks before getting started.
ReplyDeleteYou have guts. It just started getting cold here in Arizona and I can't bear going out in it. But I will follow your lead and get out there tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the epic battle. I see that after 56'41" the enemy surrendered and you won.
ReplyDeleteHere we will decorate our house for Christmas on dec. 8th but already the streets and the shops are full of Christmas lights and decoration.
I thought pace doesn't matter in these conditions!! You ran the same route as me- you must have cheated... who was driving the get-away car? Keith???
ReplyDeleteYa, trail runners!
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