Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't

It looks like February is a wrap!  It threw a few curve balls at us with some weather and sickness and injury.  I for one am glad to have it in the history books. 

Tom and I joined in with the howling wind for a beginning of the week 6 miler.  The last part of the third mile is uphill and into the wonderful wind!  The first turn at the top makes us a little happy as the wind goes from head on to a cross wind.  But the next turn is our favorite!  Turn west and the wind is at our back! 

The crosswind section and the turn west was really hypnotic today as the wind was blowing the snow from the fields onto the road ahead of us making all kinds of crazy designs for us to run on.  Spring, oh spring.....please come soon and be nice and long for us!

I tried to come up with a little ditty for today's windy run.  This is the best I could do.

W...is for the way you blow...at me!

I..is In my eyes consis..tent...ly.

N....is nearly, nearly....eve....ry.  Day.ay..ay...ay.

Wind is here for you and me!

(You gotta sing it like the kid in Little Rascals)

OK, so I mixed a few striders or fartleks in with this run.  I also added a little less than a mile tempo in.  Most of it I just endured it with Tom enduring right along beside me! 

But even a kind of miserable run in the wind is more enjoyable than no run at all!  : )

I just didn't want to get out and run this morning and since I had time later in the day I told Tom to go without me while I stayed in bed for another hour.

I didn't really want to just zig zag around the neighborhood to get 6 miles in so I decided to run to Springville to see my friend, Lesa, at her furniture store.  I wasn't exactly sure how many miles it is to Springville but decided that if I didn't want to go all the way I could turn around and come back any time.

I decided to just go for it.  It was 5.27 miles from my door to Vaud Hank's Furniture store door.  I said hi to Lesa and her dad for a few minutes and got a drink of water and headed back home. 

On the way home I realized that the run over must have been more down hill than I thought because the run home was more uphill than I was expecting.  At one point I decided to walk up a pretty good hill.  I turned my watch off while I walked it.  When I got home it was exactly 5 miles so the hill must have been .27. 

5:27 AP: 8:19

5:00 AP: 8:35

Aahhhh!  A very nice 6 mile run with Tom this morning.  There was no wind so we were able to go south east to start out and head out to the river trail that we avoid during the very windy times.

Most of this run was with Tom and Doug B.  Tom made a little detour with me to the new convenience store on the south end of main.  It is now my favorite "convenience" store!  I wasn't sure if we would find the group again, but we did and ended up running with Doug again.  Nice up into the wind and then down and around away from the wind. 

Now it's Jimmer time!