A clydesdale no more!

Another very windy day.  Running into the wind was very difficult but it sure was nice when the wind was at my back.  At times it almost seemed like too much of a push.  The upper hamstrings in both legs really started to tighten up the last couple of miles so I took it very easy.

I may have taken this pull up competition a little too serious.  I think that I pulled a pectoral muscle.  Hopefully it's just sore but it's pretty painful right now.  I may have to resort to one armed pull ups.  How many points do we get for those?

I'm logging half of my miles for today as ice skating miles. I don't think that I've ever run in conditions that were more icy than they were today. My pace was very slow because I was focusing on not falling. There were a few times that I almost went down but was able to catch myself. I made it to 8.98 miles of my 9 mile run before I finally fell. I sure hope that nobody saw me. I'm sure it wasn't a thing of style or grace. Got back up and ran the last 0.02 to finish off the run.

I'm not working today so I actually got to sleep in until 7 and run in the daylight.  It felt good.  It was cold but with very little wind it didn't bother me.  My knees and hamstrings are a little tender but that is normal for me during the winter.  I ended the run 0.2 miles short of 3,000 for the year intentionally.  I decided that the 3,000th mile will be my Christmas present to myself.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

I know that I don't post on as many blogs as I should but wanted everybody to know that I really appreciate all of the support that I get from the blog.  Even though I have only met some of you a time or two, the relationships that I have developed on the blog have meant a lot to me.  I hope that everyone has a great Christmas!

I've never run on Christmas before but I had a couple of hours to kill this year so I decided to go for a run.  Since it was Christmas and I would be hitting 3,000 miles during this run I wanted it to be an adventure.  I drove up to the BST trailhead by Eaglewood golf course and figured that running on a snowy trail would be fun.  Running uphill, into the wind (gusting up to 40 or 50 mph), in a foot of snow made it much more of an adventure than I planned.  The pace was very slow and at times I had to walk because the snow was too deep.  I got excited a couple of times when I saw the trail was clear for a stretch until I realized that the reason the trail was cleared was because the wind was blowing so hard.  Got to the antennas hoping to see a glorious view of the valley but it was too cloudy and wasn't much of a view (see picture below).  Hung out at the top for a while then headed back to the car.  It was a fun run and was nice to get out.

Here is a picture of me at mile 3,000.

Good run with the the running club this morning.  First few miles were at a pretty easy pace as Jeremy and I ran with a couple of new members then we picked it up for the last 4 miles.  I am actually starting to feel a little bit of the snap back in my legs.