It's so quiet around here that I can hear the snow fall. I hope everyone has figured out some strategies for coping with the snow and ice and managing to stay on your feet and off your a$$, unlike me who now gets PTSD every time I encounter a decline when I'm running. Is anyone running the Winter Carnival Half? If the weather looks promising, I might sign up at the last minute for something to do on a January weekend. How's the course and what's it like as an event?

I ran on Shepard Rd today. Moron me, didn't think about the plows putting the snow from the road onto the bike/walking path. I should have brought my yaktrax with. Side note- I got 25% off my yaktrax purchase at Run N Fun for solving the Rubik's Cube behind the counter, my useless knowledge comes in handy sometimes. I might run that race, if DW wants to. I'm really looking for races in April, my marathon training plan calls for races 8, 6, and 4 weeks out. Neither Need To Race or Raceberry Jam have anything listed for those weeks.

Thanks for the info, hermosaboy. It's going to be a game day decision whether I run the Winter Carnival Half - I was on the DL much of '08 and will likely run a personal worst so this will be one "for fun." Traitor, what spring marathon are you doing?

Is anyone running the Winter Carnival Half? If the weather looks promising, I might sign up at the last minute for something to do on a January weekend. How's the course and what's it like as an event?

I just got the following e-mail from the Running Room. Sorry for anyone really anticipating the Half tommorow. Hi All, Just a note to let you know that the half marathon course has been shortened to approximately 6.5 miles (or half of the marathon distance) for tomorrow. The start time will remain the same at 9:00am. The 5K race will go on as scheduled and start at 9:15. The half marathon turnaround is just East of 35E on Sheppard Road and will be at the break in the median there so that runners can go westbound on the way out and eastbound (or with traffic ) on their way back. We will move the water stop to this point and will be serving individual bottles to the runners. This should make it easier for volunteers. Thank you participating in the 2009 Securian Frozen 5K and Half Marathon! Copyright (C) 2000-2009 Running Room Inc.

Running. It was over 40 outside today

Um, I think the alternate choice is part of the reason we ended up in this electoral tie in the first place!

The lesser of two evils?