Treshold run. 2 min. easy, 15 min @ 1/2 MP, 2 min. easy, 15 min @ 1/2 MP, 2+ miles easy. Average pace: 9:18.
Weather: 32°F, 92% humidity, wind 8 SSW, SNOWING.
If ever there was a day that I should have work yaktrax, this was it. However, when I looked out the window first thing this morning and decided what to wear, it didn't look that bad. But conditions rapidly deteriorated, mostly while I was out there running. It was snowing lightly when I got up this morning, snowed quite heavily for a good chunk of my run, and then had pretty much stopped snowing by the time I finished my run. So lucky me, I was out there for the worst of it. There was one big stretch shortly after I started the 2+ mile cooldown that was just a big puddle of slush. My feet got soaked through. In fact, my whole self was soaked through by the time I got home.
I was pretty sluggish at the start and average pace on the first two miles was 10:35. I had hoped to get the 1/2 MP sections around 8:00, but I just couldn't do it in these conditions and with my tired legs from last Saturday's long run. My pace on the first one was 8:24 and the second one was 8:23. So at least I was consistent.
When will spring every come? Where is the sun? I just want to be warm. And dry. (I should come back and look at this in a couple of months when I'm complaining that it's too hot.) | 