Every Run is a Great Run!

Easy run out in a light snow on a cool morning. But no wind so that made it kind of peaceful. Roads were a bit sketchy so I had to put on the snow tires for about half the run. Kim is still sick but seems to be improving, hopefully she'll be back to normal in another day or 2.

Well I ended up just over 2300 miles for the year. Not too bad just around 70 miles shy of last year.  But best thing is making it 2 whole years with no major injuries. Hopefully I'll be smart enough to keep that up through 2013 and beyond.  

This morning in Manti when I woke up it was +1 degrees and foggy.  I thought I'd take my chances on running later in the afternoon in SF. Good decision, not balmy by any means around 15-20 degrees, but the sun was shining and zero wind so it felt pretty good. Looking forward to Kim getting over her nasty cough soon so she can join me on these kind of runs.

8:25 

So just like yesterday morning in Manti this morning in SF when I woke up it was 1 degree. So I decided to at least wait until we hit double digits which wasn't until after 11am when it got to 10. But since the sun was shining (albeit filtered) and no wind it didn't feel so bad.  

Ran down to the river bottoms and was able to do a bit of speed work with 8 x 400m with 400m jog rests in between.  Didn't pay much attention to pace just ran by feel with it so cold but was pleasantly surprised to see all the quarters in the 1:25 to 1:30 range (5:45-6:00 min pace).

Went out around 11am again for some easy miles. Temps about the same as the last couple days.

8:27/153 

The air was practically toxic today and thermometer said -3 this morning so ended up just doing a little bit at the gym. Some XT and 3.5 miles on the treadmill.

Temps below zero again this morning so waited until 11am to get out. Even then it was only 7 or 8 degrees but the air did seem a bit cleaner than yesterday.  Ran up to the jack-rabbit and was hoping to get a 5K tempo run down river bottoms road. 

Felt good the first mile when most of the downhill occurs and ran it in 6:28, even had momentary thoughts of trying for sub-20 for the 5K.  But then something weird happened about 1/2 way through the 2nd mile.  I'm sure it had something to do with the single digit temps and/or gunky air but I started feeling like my airways - nasal passage and throat - were swelling up so that I couldn't breath.

Start feeling light-headed, cold headache, and a feeling like being smothered and everything went very south at that point. Had to quit after 2 miles with 2nd mile coming in at 6:46.  Thankfully after about 1 minute the feelings of being smothered went away and I finished out the run nice and easy. Dang stinkin' inversion anyway.