Failures require the time to be studied

Noon- Got the day off work today, so I met up with Kallen at the Longview Lake trail which had a good 3 inches of snow on it.  We kept things chill around 7:50 pace and just enjoyed the little bit of sun we have been missing the last few days. My garmin 305 decided to finally kick the bucket today. Almost 9 years of service and thousands of miles logged.... R.I.P.  I decided on the 911xt for my new watch, I can only hope that it will be as good as my last one. 

Met up with Kallen at the middle school track for his speed workout. My plan was to just run around the track while he did his 400's.  I ended up doing a couple's to help push him through the workout.  Grabed a mile barefoot on the track as well. Short cool down with him to round it off.   

Today was the warmest january run I have been on in a long time, right around 68.  I ALMOST took my shirt off, but decided to not show off the whiteness underneath. 5 N. Oak loop on my delivery route.  Felt really good considering the small workout yesterday and getting over being sick.  Lots of hills on this route made the lungs burn a little more than i wanted to.

Todays run was MUCH colder than yesterday's run.  I woke up and saw a nice sun rise and figured that the rest of the days was going to be "warm".  I walked out side and immediatly walked right back in to put on all my gear.  Finally I was all strapped up ready to go, got the dog and headed out.  Just 3 for us today. Legs felt okay after running and a few hours of bball. 3 plumbers run. 

Today I headed downtown with the wife to help out at the practice and get some stuff done there.  I headed out early in the afternoon hoping that it would have warmed up by then, but it was still around 18. I did Plaza x2 loop and kept it around 7:10 pace.  About a quarter mile left I could tell that I was starting to get some minor frost bite on my quads, time to invest in some better under spandex. 

1 Mile easy warm up before basketball at the church.  We got some lovely freezing rain last night that made it unprobable for me to get a long run in today.  This is the longest every day running I have done since the marathon and I would like to keep  it that way and not slip on ice and ruin everything.