Recovery run. 5:30 am Central Standard Time, 19°F, 65% humidity, wind 2 ENE. They've got a lot of snow on the ground here in Des Moines, Iowa. What little shoulder there might be on the roads is covered in about a 2-3 foot pile of snow. I discovered that there are sidewalks and they had been plowed with a varying lack of success. But I stuck to the snowy icy sidewalks because running in the road with no shoulder seemed too dangerous even though there wasn't much traffic at this time in the morning. I had to walk through deep snow on a couple of occasions and nearly fell a couple of times too.
My stats are somewhat approximate because my watch didn't have satellites for about the first .6 miles and wasn't looking for them because I had told the watch that I was indoors when it failed to find satellites from within the hotel. So after about .6 miles when I realized it wasn't giving me pace or distance, I stopped, turned off the watch and turned it back on and waited for it to find satellites. I brought my VFFs and was going to change into them for the last mile today, but I decided that the roads are too treacherous. Also, I'm short on time because we've got to get to the University fairly early this morning. AP: 10:24. Splits (from the point at which I got satellites): 10:02, 10:13, 10:50, 10:38, 10:10 (0.42 miles).
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