This is what it looked like in my ‘hood this morning. When we woke up, it was snowing and the boys were quite excited to walk to school in it. It continued to snow quite heavily on the walk to and from school, so I was quite surprised we even had school. After dropping Jones off, we walked home and then I drove Shoo to preschool.
Today was supposed to be a long run. I do my long runs on Tuesdays as Shoo is in preschool for 5 hours. I figured I’d drop him off and then hit the treadmill. Thanks to my northern readers, I decided I needed to at least try to run outside. I don’t have yaktrax and my shoes aren’t screwed, but I figured I’d just see how it went. I wanted to do 11 miles and figured that any miles I managed outside would make the treadmill that much more bearable.
Other than the snow coming down and getting in my eyes, it was an awesome run! I felt so hardcore LOL! After about 8 miles, Beer Geek called me and told me the schools were closing early. That meant I had less than a half hour to get to Shoo’s school, before we walked to pick up Jones. Darn! I was really enjoying the run. I ran one more mile, grabbed a quick shower, picked up Shoo and then we walked to pick up Jones.
Jones has a cold, so he headed into the house when we got home, but Shoo and I did some shoveling and snow playing. All told, I walked 3 miles, ran 9 (at an average of a 10:05 pace), and shoveled for about 45 minutes. I’m going to be sore tomorrow!
Awesome cross-training with the shoveling and staying upright in the snow! I love those outside runs that make you feel amazing. I think you guys are sending the snow our way, cuz we’re expecting a dumping over night… thanks LOL.
Beautiful!! I’ve never lived in snow so I don’t know what it’s like but it does sound rejuvenating to run in the cold (real cold). Great job going for it! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Hope your little guy gets over his cold quickly. 🙂
so pretty.and so glad it’s you not me.I know I say it all the time but Im now officially TexasWimpy.
Looks like it was a beautiful run. Even though the snow is pretty….I am so over it. ha!
Oh yeah. You’re gonna be feeling that in the morning. And you ARE hardcore all running in teh snow without yaktrax or screws. Go you!
That is hard core running 9 miles as the snow drives schools to close early! Your ‘hood looks beautiful 🙂
Great run! Plus you got in your cross training with all that shoveling. Love the pic of the beach bucket and shovel with the snow! 🙂
That activity definitely adds up to at least 11 miles. That’s a sweet picture– hope Jones is feeling better soon and not infecting the whole family ;).
Is it still snowing there?You are cra-zay running in that with no YT’s or screws but GREAT job!! Dang!
Glad the run went so well! I heard that things got shut down in DC today due to the snow.I love your neighborhood; it’s so pretty!