Well, I was supposed to hook up in the morning with my (much younger and supposedly tougher) training mentors. But they decided the weather was too tough for them. Me, I grew up in Wisconsin and spent two years in Norway, including one year above the arctic circle, in Narvik and Tromso, where the sun doesn't rise for two and a half months and the snow is so deep the roads can look like narrow canyons with 10 foot walls of snow on either side. So nothing Utah can throw at me bothers me. OK- so I went out at 8:30 AM in blizzard like conditions. Roads were OK some places, bad others. But this is the kind of running I like. I put in 12.1 miles @ 7:37 average on my Providence-Millville-River Heights-South Logan loop. I was amazed I held that overall pace, because the two miles coming back up 100 east and Canyon road was like running on a wet ice rink- no traction, complete slush slop, I had to baby step the whole way up. Overall I was happy with the run, and glad it is over. | 