Slow, wet slog, aka recovery run in the snow.
6:15 am, 30°F, 83% humidity, wind 9 NW, snowing, about an inch of snow on the ground.
I put on my smart wool and strapped on my yaktax and headed out the door. (Actually, I dawdled for a long time first.) I stood there for a minute and thought about going back inside, but then I'd just have to run later, so I decided just to get it over with.
The problem with yaktrax in a freshly fallen wet snow like this is that they develop snowballs under your feet every few steps and then the snowballs fall off a few steps later. Rinse and repeat.
At one point a bus went by me and sprayed a bunch of snow on me. A while later, a snow plow went by me and he slowed way down in order to avoid spraying a bunch of snow on me. I yelled out thank you to the universe because there's no way he could hear me.
I'm glad that if we had to have snow, at least it was on a day that I had a recovery run.
AP: 10:21. Splits: 10:24, 10:22, 10:40, 10:16, 10:24, 10:02, 0.16 @ 9:58.
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