Wind Chill!

Today’s route: Highway 60
Distance: 3.0 miles

Oh my gosh. The temperature was 28 with a wind chill of 18, and it was sooo cold. I think I could have handled that 28 degrees, or even 18 degrees, but with the wind whipping around us, it was numbing. I wore my heaviest apparel yet, and it still took me a while to warm up, and I never got too hot. I had a heavy hoodie on over my long-sleeved shirt. I had a head wrap on and the hood up on my hoodie. On the way back up 60, I put the hood down and left the head wrap on. My gloves came off toward the end. So, yeah, it was cold.

We ran into dead cat on the sidewalk. It both grossed me out and made me sad. I felt bad for the poor thing.

Jojo went with us again and did very well. She wasn’t able to keep up, but she ran at a steady pace and was sore after it was over, and that’s all any of us can ask of ourselves!

We’re doing the Turkey Day 5 Miler on Sunday! I can’t wait to see how I do!

Runner's Trots

Today’s Route: McDonald’s on highway 60 – to OMU plant and back
Distance: 3.0 miles

Ok, this should be a reminder, NO GRAPES THE NIGHT BEFORE A RUN! I know I have to be careful about what I eat the night before I go running, and I especially can’t eat anything within a few hours of going running. Well Jojo made an awesome dinner last night, consisting mostly of roughage, and I paid for it this morning. I had a bad case of “runner’s trots”. It was so bad, I almost had to stop and walk just to make sure I didn’t have an accident. Luckily, it didn’t hit me until about a mile from the end, and I was able to contain it most of the way. But then when McDonald’s was in view, it was almost too much to bear. I had to use their facilities after our run, because I couldn’t make it home in my delicate condition. Anyway, aside from that, the run was pretty easy. I don’t really like that route though. The road is rough, there is a lot of debris everywhere, and I don’t think Pam and Kevin like it that much either. They just did it because they knew I’d moved back in with Jojo and because it was closer to me. They’re just good people like that. On a funny note, me and Pam were dressed exactly the same this morning. Dark pants and the bright green OMU Power Run long-sleeved t-shirt. Overall, a good run!