I was swimming

And boy did this day start off  fun. Started the day with a frozen garage door that hubby had to pry open. Headed to

the city.  Today is only -35 with the windchill

Finished my swim (1,100 yards) then had a few minutes in the hot tub. Went to the dressing room and was "nekid" before I realized by goggles were missing. Those things cost $20 so I wasn't leaving them behind, plus they are pink  Put my swimsuit back and and went back to the hot tub, no goggles, then headed to the pool and they were on the edge of the lane I had been using. 

OK now I am working on being late for work so I hurry up and get showered/dressed and head out to the parking lot where I see that the snowfall that was light when I went in an hour previous was now an all out blizzard. Get in the van hoping the wipers will clear the snow. Nope. Look for the snow cleaning tool and cant find it. Have to get out of the van and go around to the back (with frozen wet hair by this time) and lift up the floor compartment to find the sweeper. Then I had to clean snow off the entire van because it was accumulating so quickly.

Then I drove to work. I am exhausted and my day hasn't started yet. Need to save some energy for an hour on the bike trainer tonight.

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I spent 30 minutes force feeding Daisy, 10 minutes trying to find and weigh Trixie, 30 minutes getting ready for work, and have been working for 2 hours.  So, busy!  6 recovery miles tonight.

I can't imagine swimming right now..... even inside - just the thought of it makes me start shivering.

LRB... I have a thing against fur for clothes  but yes I am very aware that it is freezing cold outside. I don't want to go back out.

D, how is Daisy and Trixie doing?

Dave - I will take running in the freezing cold over a treadmill, unless the freezing cold involves winds of 10 mph +.

I like starting these things, I can actually respond to everybody (for the moment).

Whatcha say there, Paco!  Happy Friday and welcome to Friday!

Heading up to Mount Snow after work to ski for the weekend.  I am...looking forward to it?  Wind chills in the negative teens.  My berries may very well freeze and fall off.

8 miles on the treadmill last night at 7:44 avg pace.  4 x 1 mile at HMP.  The last of those was tough.  Good workout.  It feels good to not be in any pain these days.

Hey, hey, hey, people.

FreeSoul87, thank you for starting today's thread. Great job running 6.2 in this weather.

Beth, yikes! I'm glad that you're safe.

Damaris, enjoy your six-miler.

DaveP MI, have fun serving time on the TM.

Andrew, fantastic five-miler.

Phil, enjoy skiing.

Nicole, you can do it.

I'll head to the gym later for a short speed workout on the TM.

Andrea, Daisy has gained 0.40 lbs, so yay.  She is still sleeping a lot, which if I remember correctly I think Trixie did too.  Trixie weighs the same as last week which is good.  So, improving!

I have the day off today for a doctor's appointment (routine) and also because over the holidays off-and-on, I worked  a total of 25 hours at the office to help make sure our office team would not be too far behind when everyone came back to work, so I've accrued some "comp time" hours, nice.  So I slept in a bit today.

Today is a non-run day after 3 days in a row of running. Tuesday, I did 5 miles of hills, hills, and some more hills.  New Year's Day I did the Cobweb Chaser 5K (report  and photos are on the main page somewhere) and Thursday,  I did 3.5 mile easy recovery run/walk.  And then went home and watched the Sugar Bowl and was very happy to see Oklahoma defeat Alabama, yeah, baby!

As for the Cobweb Chaser, our running club photographer and historian, Tom, always does a great job doing a slide show with all our club events.   Here is a link to the show:   http://www.photoshow.com/watch/yi9YN2if .   Tom caught me on course in a couple of them:

And with one of my good buds, Bill, post-race.