I Probably Should Make My Blog Public again

20 mph wind?  Light snow?  Poor visibility?  Dark?

NO THANKS!!

I watched T.V. in the comfort of my home instead.

Indoors again.  Just couldn't make myself go out.  Tomorrow will be outside since I have an evening activity at school.  Thursday probably not--I'm moderating for Scholastic Bowl.  Friday not--Chuck is supervising a basketball game.

On Saturday there is a run out in Mahomet (the closest trails to me, about 40 min. from my house but close to school) that sounds pretty cool.  There's a 4 mile loop and you just run however many loops you want.  My problem?  It starts at 8 and I have to leave for a Chicago b-day party at 10:30 or 11.  A colleague will be running 7 loops.  I'm still trying to think of a way I can go out there and run a bit of his run with him.  We'll see.

A nice 8 miles on the streets behind the school (that essentially go nowhere).  No cars, not really cold, just windy (7-10mph winds).  Going into the wind was obviously worse.  There are some retention ponds out there and usually I run around them so that I don't have to do the same loop multiple times.  That was a mistake.  The first lake I almost fell a few times and I decided that I wouldn't run around the other and then the other side of the lake was less slippery, so I just decided to run around the other lake.

Bad idea.  That was where I fell.  There was a sheet of ice and I thought I could run over it.  I slipped, thought I righted myself, and was quite surprised to end up on my butt.  No biggie, but I decided after that to just run on the roads.

Throughout the rest of the run, I either had the wind in my face or an uphill, or both.  Visibility was pretty bad, especially towards the end of the run.   But it was still a pretty great run.

Avg pace:  8:43 avg

Inside again.  Watched some of the Purdue/Wisconsin game.  Rooted for Purdue mostly because I hate Wisconsin.  Purdue won in an intense game.  Probably not good for Illinois in the long run.

I have been doing some more ab work lately.  I'm trying to add that into the daily routine and so far this week I have been doing it daily.

8 cross training miles and some ab work.

A progression run.  Felt great. 

Temp was 16 degrees (2 with 13 mph winds).  It honestly didn't feel that cold, but it did feel windy.  I tried to make sure that I ran well in the wind, since that's usually the only hurdle I have to overcome in races. 

Avg: 8:43.  Mile splits 9:20, 8:55, 8:55, 8:51, 8:45, 8:43, 8:28, 8:32, 8:24, 8:21 and then .6@8:21 pace.  The last mile and a half I had to push myself to keep that pace, but it felt pretty good.