Body Comp 178.6 lbs 16.8 to 9.7% BF Well I was feeling a little better today. I knew the weather was supposed to be changing but I got out just after 7:30 AM. I felt so tight the first 3.5 miles and I was trying to convince myself that I was sick and not up to this. It was cold and I was tight. A couple miles later I was really starting to fly a few miles later that’s when I spotted my first snow flake.
Running South wasn’t so bad and East wasn’t either but when I turned North on 13th my second time around the Draper Days 5K course in reverse the wind was punishing and I was debating with myself how much longer I would go. So when Suzanne showed up after my second time around I was that much happier. I ran around in the parking lot while she warmed up and then I zigzagged behind her most of the time running back and forth. Suzanne was complaining about the weather immediately and that gave me the incentive I needed to tell her it wasn’t that bad. The funny thing is as we were running all along with the wind at our back I knew it would get much worse when we turned east and worse still when we ran north sure enough it did. I tried to convince Suzanne to run close behind me to let me block the wind but she wouldn’t do it. She likes a healthy gap or to run side by side. She threw in the towel after 1 three mile loop she had planned on six.
Later on she told me she was mentally weak and I was mentally strong. That sure builds the male ego but I told her all the mentally weak were still at home looking out the window.
When she left she gave me her much warmer mittens which I was grateful for one more brutal loop and I headed for home. I was grateful on the return trip I was running mostly north. It made things much nicer having the snowflakes fall in front of me rather than pelting me in the face so I couldn’t see. By the time I returned home I had gone 20.3 miles 10 before Suzanne at 1:23:20 HR 143/157 and 10.3 after 1:32:29 HR 140/150. Somehow the two inches of snow that fell while I was out along with potty, and water breaks should be accounted for but the clock was running the whole time and although it looks like a lousy time it was very challenging mentally. | 