Psalm 91:1 NKJV He who dwells in the secret place

Ran one Mile today and nothing else to say.

9.4 miles at an 6:31 pace in 1 hour.

Christmas Eve and the weather wanted to give us a whiter Christmas than we already were going to have. I ran in a heavy wind (25 to 30 mph wind gusts) and snow today it was really a tough run. I originally wanted to do a tempo run but when I saw the weather I thought no way. I slept in today and left around 10am, because I'm making this a major cut-back week to enjoy the family. I will only be running once a day this week and nothing on Christmas Day.

The first 5 miles were in a headwind and tons of snow coming down and I averaged a 6:45 pace. The last four miles were in a cross wind and I wanted to end them with a strong run. Splits were (6:16, 6:01, 6:24 and 6:16) all in all a pretty decent run on Christmas Eve. The effort was tougher than normal at this pace.

Merry Christmas very one!!!!!!!!!

No run today, but great family time. I consumed enough food that I will need to burn calories tomorrow. I probably won't eat very good the rest of the week. I deserve to indulge, because I've been on a very strict food watch for along time. This week I'm going to enjoy my family, and some fun runs and eat a lot of good food.

9.2 miles at a 6:56 overall pace in 1:03 in a heavy wind and snowfall.  I wore my new underarmour tights and underarmour cold gear mask.  What a great product underarmour is.  I never slipped, but I was making sure that my footing was good.

Was going to run with my wife later, but we got too busy having fun. 

10.33 miles at an overall 6:41 in 1:08. Very snowy windy run again today around 18 degrees. I almost fell once, but I caught my balance. The snow was really coming down hard as well has the wind was blowing good. I did manage to find some traction on the main roads which I mostly did this run on.

Lunch:

2 miles in 12:16 in 24:45 : Went for a run with my wife after about a couple of hours after I got done with my run. My wife struggled a bit with her breathing, but she toughed it out and finished the run.

Today I ran a longer aerobic run of 17.51 at an overall 7:01 pace in 2:02. I ran everywhere. Downtown on Main st, and than uphill on Buckskin Rd. to our Hospital which is a 2 mile stretch. The temperature was 18 degrees with an 18mph wind that was really cold hitting the face. With the wind chill factor the temperature was 8 degrees according to the weather's web site. I ran 10 miles into the head wind then I had to turn around because my forehead couldn't stand the cold wind anymore.

I wanted to test my new mittens out with a long run in this bad cold weather to see how my hands would do (I know I'm a sick person to want to run long in extreme windy, cold weather). These mittens were excellent and my hands didn't get cold like they usually do (Thanks to my Wife's Christmas present to me). Mittens seem to work better for me in the extreme cold than what I've used before.

I didn't take a gel, and I didn't drink water or anything else for the whole run. I wanted to see how my body would handle this. My energy level seemed fine, but I could tell on the last mile that I could have used a little bit of an energy pick-up.

When I walked into our house after the long run my wife asked if I would run a faster mile with her right now, and I said okay. She wanted to see how far she could run at a 9 minute pace. She did .45 before she was out of breath. Than we walked/jogged for a minute and picked the pace back up again and did this one more time before we finished with a total of 1.3 mile 16 :14 minutes. Very good speed work for her, and it was her idea.

8.42 miles at an overall 6:35 pace in 55:32 minutes.  Very windy, snowy run again.  I really sound like a broken record.  I picked the pace of today a little.  I wanted to run a little fast but not at tempo pace.  I do need to put in some speed miles next week.  The wind was a factor again, and the snow was not coming down very hard so that was nice.