Day 24

Daily distance: 6:02
Weekly distance: 9.33
Training distance: 94.89 Miles
Pace: 11:40
Time/Temperature: 1:00 p.m. 31 degrees, Parly cloudy
Weight: 145

Oh my goodness it was a COLD run!!  I spent three hours thinking about when to run.  I was doing field visits for work and it was all over the radio and facebook that the temperatures were going to steadily drop each hour of the day.  So I pulled over at 11:30 at the battlefield and thought that I would knock it out then, but then I realized that I didn't have two pairs of pants, just one and that my legs get chilly at 45 degrees so they surely would at 32 degrees (which it was at that time).  So I zoomed to my other appointment and then had to drive 30 minutes home.  The entire time I am thinking in my mind what I will wear so that I will be warm enough but not too hot on my run.  It is such a balance in cold weather running.  I get home and it is now 12:45.  I am very hungry, but it is more important to me to get this run out before the temperature drops even half of a degree more.  Half way through the run I realize that I perhaps should have shoved something down my throat before running.  I am out of zing and had nothing to keep me going.  

I end up wearing my winter running pants with yoga pants on top.  I wear two of my winter running shirts.  I wear a band around my head and another fleece band around my mouth.  This ended up coming down to a neck guard because it was too tight for my breathing.  My son has a bandana that would have been perfect but I couldn't find it.   I also had two pair of sock on and gloves.  My phone was not fully charged, so I knew it would die on my again during this run.  I really need a new gps system.  

I ran in silence due to trying to keep my phone alive.  I was not cold internally but could tell that my skin was.  My legs and hands tingled.  My pace was slower but it didn't seem that way.  I think it was just the natural slowing from the cold.  My lungs did good at the end which I was concerned about since I didn't have anything warming my breath.

I do not like running in this cold of temperatures, but I will do it!  And tomorrow is going to be even colder.  BRRRRR