Your Training for 02/21/2011 – 02/27/2011

I’m a little disappointed that I only got 2 runs in this week.  Having Monday off, it should have been easy to get at least 3 runs on the books.  However it didn’t happen that way.

Monday I ran on the treadmill because we had just gotten a fresh dump of snow that hadn’t been removed from the roads, much less the sidewalks.  It was a good workout totally 3.4 miles.  I had set the treadmill program on random and it threw some crazy hills my way.  The problem with hills on the treadmill is that you don’t know how long they are going to be.  Knowing if you are almost at the top of the hill makes it easier to fight on – though not wanting to fall off the back of the treadmill is some great motivation too!

Saturday morning when I woke up it was -1 so I waited a couple of hours and when I left the temperature was at 0, though when I got home it was back at -1. Every one was sound asleep when I did a pretty random 4.6 mile run that included Downtown and Cedar Riverside.  I started to go out on a further route when I realized I was starting to get cold so I made a quick course correction which led me on the random route home.  It was a decent run though the fresh dusting of snow that was falling covered up the icy patches and I almost completely bit it!