Every Run is a Great Run!

Nice sloppy Christmas Eve morning run in the snow. Had a pretty good group show up at 7am even with the snowy conditions. Not too cold or windy so besides some sloppy road conditions it was great to be out in the snowstorm. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas! 

Santa brought Kim and I got some Sno-trax gizmos to strap onto our shoes for the days when the roads are slick. Today mother nature was kind enough to give us just the conditions so we could try them out.

Kim went out early with the gang but I slept in a bit and got out a little later. The sno-trax did the trick and made running on the snowy/icy roads much more enjoyable. I even did some mile repeats with no worries about slipping.  Not very motivated to push the pace so I just tried to keep it below 6:45.  Wimped out on mile 3 with a 6:47 but the other miles were 6:30, 6:40, and 6:40.  Half mile slow jog in between the miles. 

Woke up to another 8-10 inches of white fluffy powder snow.  Mocking the snowy roads with our yak-trax strapped onto our shoes we headed out around 9am and enjoyed a nice easy 5-miler in the winter wonderland then finished up with 30 or 40 minute of snow shoveling. 

8:59/145

Pretty chilly this morning around 10 degrees with some wind from the canyon but at least not the crazy wind like we had last week. Kim has the flu so couldn't join this morning but we had a pretty good sized group meet at the church so I had plenty of company for the long run. Ended up being a nice run, sure nice to have decent roads to run on, very few slick spots.