Week 6 - Snow Flurries, Snow Showers, Snow

Week 6 started off with treadmill workouts, mandated by the fact that the roads were still impassable by people on foot and motorized vehicles at the same time. The speed workout was 5 x 1k, which was nice to do on the treadmill. I think the tempo run was supposed to be six miles, but once I got over the 30 minute cardio machine limit, I look around guiltily to see how much longer I can go and break the rules, so I didn't get in a full six miles.

By the time the weekend was here, I was ready to be outdoors, but it was still a question as to what roads I could run on. I called the office in North Park to see if they had plowed the trail around the lake, but the lady on the phone there would not tell me. She said that I had to come judge for myself whether I thought it was safe or not. Hrmgh! Lisa and I made plans to meet early Saturday morning, but she had to cancel because of a cough. I enjoyed an extra half hour of sleep and then headed into the office and made plans to do North Park in the afternoon when the so-called sun would be out.

The trail around the lake was the empty-est I have ever seen it before. Sometimes I will be headed out there, thinking Lisa and I are the only devoted runners, only to encounter dozens of other crazies. Not so much on Saturday. I could probably count the number of non-sledriders that I ran into on two hands during my two loops around the lake. There was some sun shining through when I first arrived and some beautiful snowflakes, but it soon went back to blah, wind and cold. Since I am beginning to expand my acceptance of such things as treadmills and music, I decided to do the ipod while I ran AND I decided to give the imapmyrun app another try. I had tried it when I first got my phone, but was thoroughly underwhelmed with it and just gave up on it. I had seen that it had some updates, though, so figured it I'd give it another whirl. It was great! As I was listening to music, a nice lady come on over my headphones to tell me when I hit my miles and what my pace and speed were. It was great until I drained the battery...it didn't make it through the whole run.

Highlight of the week - rediscovery of the imapmyrun app
Difficult part of the week - No yoga/strength training accomplished this week - need to bet back into that, though that has never been the best part of my training...