Well, the 5 TM miles are in without incident. I turned the last mile into a mini-progressive to get the legs turning over and ready for tomorrow's 10k & it felt good. The weather outside, on the other hand, is looking ugly - rain and every once in a while some sleet to make things fun. Oh well, every March can't be like last year (we were in the 70s last March).

 Oh well, every March can't be like last year (we were in the 70s last March).

We had a stretch of mid 80's for about ten days last March, which caused premature blooming of our apple and cherry crops and they all froze and were killed off the following week!

Don't want that again.

 

I said the same thing to someone yesterday. Those days felt wonderful at the time, but it was heartbreaking to go to our favorite orchard last fall and see acres and acres of trees with no apples. The farmer lost 80% of his crop - basically all of his wholesale business - and said his banker was just very glad that he has a strong 'tourism' type business going with pick-your-own, wagon rides, kids' games, etc. to help with cash flow.

 

I would just like for it to not snow tonight on top of today's rain leaving me with a skating rink for tomorrow's long run.

I had not realized other areas were affected as well.

+1 on the no snow.  They were complaining in the office today about it being in the mid 30's, and I was thinking to myself how low my standards have dropped since taking up running!

I am not affected negatively by those temps, now granted, warm weather running for mid-range distances is great (6-10 miles), but once you get in the 90 minute to two hour range, that heat sucks.

Got in my easy 6 @ 9:15/mile, which was probably a bit fast but felt great!  I had to drag myself out the door for this one it turned out to be a great run...probably because it was 55 degrees and I didn't need 2 layers, hat, and gloves!!

Great run AmiK, but that's still glove weather for me.

Package pickup is done, and also 5k in 26:57 w/ 1 stride. Hopefully tomorrow will be faster!

Did 9 miles at 8:26 pace, in lovely 36 degrees with some kind of precipitation going on. It could not decide whether it wanted to be cold rain or wet snow, it just knew it wanted to be annoying. And after posting to someone earlier to make sure to wear a hat for her race that was going to be 40's & rainy, of course I went out with my head uncovered. Kind of fast for me, but this kind of weather does not inspire an easy pace. Plus I needed a pit stop when I was about a mile away from the nearest facility, that was an exceptionally fast interval. (Can't wait till the leaves come back on the trees....)

Way to get it done!  It got nasty for a spell there.

I set out to do an hour on the spin bike but my butt could only handle 50 minutes.  Way too much soreness in the ol' gluteal area and I couldn't go 10 more minutes.  At least my knee felt good!

So its apparent at this point that I'm not going to race tomorrow.  My chest congestion has worsened and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that if I step to that line, I'd be wrong to do so.  This is an extremely difficult thing to digest right now.  My races are what I train for.  If it's any use to anybody, don't mess with the grey areas when it comes to colds and flus.  I messed around inside of them and I'm paying the price.  I'm definitely not young anymore.