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January 20, 2008
A Chill in the Air
Well, just like the rest of the country, Pittsburgh saw a dip in the temperatures last night/today. When I woke up weather.com informed me that it was 6 degrees with a -11 windchill. Yep, that's cold enough for me! But then I think about sitting tonight in Lambeau Field watching the Packers play and 6 degrees sounds kind of toasty! :)
Regardless this morning I had a long run of 90 minutes so O and I started putting on the layers! Unlike riding, I will run in any kind of weather. Running in cold just doesn't phase me that much. I can remember some really, really cold days in high school where my high school coach would make me run loops around the high school instead of doing one of our loops around town so that if I froze to death it wouldn't be that hard to find me. Of course I'd RATHER run in 70 degrees and sun but I don't live in San Diego.
Anyway, I decided on my thickest tights, a thick base layer with a fleece on top of that and then a thin windbreaker, a baclava (O had to talk me into it but I'm glad he did), a wooly hat on top of that, gloves and socks over the gloves (a trick my high school coach taught me). O had so much clothing on I can't begin to recount it. And Roxy? She just wore her fur coat! She is one tough pooch if you ask me.
The run itself was actually quite good! Legs felt good, HR was low, and other than my feet, I wasn't that cold. That is until the wind would start whipping up. That's when I felt like I had an ice cream headache...you know...when you head starts to hurt because you've eaten your ice cream too fast?
Afterwards I had to take a picture of the icicles that had formed in O's beard. Roxy also had an icicle beard. We were calling her "Frosty" all morning! :)
So that ends a great week of training (actually I still have an hour easy to do on the trainer this afternoon but that's not too bad)! Starting to feel good again as the volume increases. Life is indeed good.
Posted by beth at January 20, 2008 2:27 PM
Comments
I just thawed out a few minutes ago, so I thought I'd use my fingers to write a comment:
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Posted by: O at January 20, 2008 3:01 PM
You're right. It WAS super cold here in the Burgh this morning. Glad to see someone else was outside bearing the elements. I was getting some strange looks as I ran down main street...Nice run you two!!!
Posted by: Chad at January 20, 2008 4:50 PM
So I braved the 24 degree temps here (yeah, I know I'm soft) with 17 mph winds. My hands were freezing (no mittens, only gloves) and so were my face & toes, but the worst part about it was that I saw a guy running IN A T-SHIRT. He had a windbreaker wrapped around his waist so it wasn't even like he didn't realize how cold it was. No, he knew how cold it was, but somehow he had become WARM ENOUGH to take off the windbreaker. What the heck?
Posted by: B at January 20, 2008 6:44 PM
I will stop complaining about being cold! I had a longish ride this morning and at the start it was 66* and of course warmed to 82*...I was so cold when we started... I will never complain after those photos! Hope you enjoyed a HOT bath, warm tea, and maybe even a fire...! No colds either!
Posted by: Bree at January 20, 2008 6:52 PM
Way to HTFU! Better than my treadmill romp. You guys are the epitome of hardcore - by the way, the cookies look GREEEEAAAATT!! (think "Tony the Tiger"). Yum!
Posted by: marit c-l at January 20, 2008 8:19 PM
Roxy is soooooooo cute! Thanks for the sock over the glove tip. I always need an extra-little something for my hands for the the first 5 minutes and I'm going to try this on my next run.
-Danielle
Posted by: Danielle at January 21, 2008 2:24 PM