Tell me how you've HTFU'd lately (Read 2844 times)

Zoom, you are the man (or woman)

Even moreso this year. I'm closing in on 1500 non-dreadmill miles and early '08 was one of the snowiest periods in MI history.

It's funny that I came in from my run and logged my miles and this thread was at the top of the forum. Just returned from thanskgiving travel --- lots of driving, sick familiy, lots of looking for doctors and pharmacies in strange towns. Was up last night with my son and kept awake by DW's coughing, so less sleep than I would have liked, and I feel like I'm getting sick as well. I did not feel like running today, but I was supposed to do intervals today on the track near my house. I got out of bed reluctantly at 6:00, saw that there are about 2" of new snow, but the roads looked clear. I told myself it would be OK, got outside and found that my driveway was super icy. Almost packed it in. Instead decided to do a warmup mile to the track and see how it looked -- I figured if it was icy, I'd just jog 4 easy miles. When I got there, found that the track was largely clear of ice, even mostly dry (???). Had a good workout. It's funny how much better almost any run in cold, dark, snow and ice is than you expect --- got to remember that with winter coming.

Last week. 6:00am 6.3 mile run. 38 degrees, windy and pouring rain. Still better than the dreadmill.