Oh man...it has been a mix of snow...and then...no snow...running on snow, or better said, running through the snow (sometimes with yak trax a spring loaded grippy thing that fits on the bottom of your shoes) is hard, cold, wet and needless to say slippery. Sometimes I look at the weather and just say, "it is time to run on the treadmill" ugh. I REALLY don't like running on the treadmill. It is boring, and for some odd reason, every time I run on the treadmill I hurt the next day. I have always read that running on a treadmill was supposed to be something like 15% easier....hmmm not for me. It feels harder for me and for whatever reason I must run differently than I do outside, because something always feels out of whack when I get done running on any treadmill. Ok...enough whining. Running outside in the weather is something that I have (mostly) evolved to love. Rain, just water. Snow, just cold water and usually quietier when your running down the road. Wind, sythetic hills. So, I think I've started to convince myself that running in the (extreme) weather is just part of the game and have embraced it. Which of course doesn't mean that I'm not looking foreword to the time that I can run in shorts and a tee shirt.
So, weather? bring it on.
