Painfully slow run. Average pace 9:54. Shred level 2. 5:00 am, 28°F, 94% humidity, wind 5 WNW, steadily falling light snow, 1-2" of snow on the ground. My husband and I both got up at 4:30 this morning and I asked him to check the school district website to see if there was a delayed start or a snow day. He never said anything about it, so I assumed that he checked and that there was no closure. I looked out the window and the snow didn't look to deep and I considered taking the Yaktrax off my shoes (I had put them on last night). So I got dressed and headed out the door. It was unpleasant when I was going either North or West because the wind made it feel like the snow hitting my face was little pins pricking me in the face. The Yaktrax probably turned out to be a good thing because the snow was deeper than I thought (and got deeper over the course of the run), but they were kind of annoying because they kept developing big clumps of snow under my heels. I would get a new clump about every 10 steps or so. Most of the time I could knock them off by stamping my foot down, but I few times I had to stop and pull the snow off with my hand. I guess that contributed to my slow pace a little bit. When I was almost finished with my run I got a text message from my son asking me if it was a snow day. I called him back and told him that I didn't know and that he should check the district website. When I got home, he reported that it was indeed a snow day. I haven't been able to get ahold of my husband to find out if he checked the website earlier this morning, so I don't know whether they called the snow day while I was out running, or if my husband didn't check. In any case, if I had known it was a snow day, I might have gone back to bed and run a little later. Oh well. At least it's done now. I'm a little worried about tomorrow's tempo run. The snow will be even deeper tomorrow. I wonder if it would be a bad idea for me to go do it on the treadmill, since I haven't run on a treadmill for nearly a year. The other problem is that I have to drive to get to the treadmill, which is no fun in the snow and takes extra time. The time won't be a problem if the schools have another snow day tomorrow, which I think is likely. In other news, I've got a stiff neck. It was hurting yesterday, and then was really stiff when I got up this morning. The running loosened it up a bit, but it still hurts. I think it was caused by the sewing I did on Monday night, leaning over the table and the sewing machine while I was stressed out and tense. This is the view out my back window just after noon today. Check out the height of the pile of snow on the chair.
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