Half day working today, then off for the next 5 days.  Plan on 3 - 4 miles around noon-time or 1 pm or so, after I get off work.  Cold front moving in for us.  Will be in the 50s when I run - nice - but then around 3 pm. or so, the rain moves in, the cold moves in and the temp will start drop-drop-dropping!  Cold rain tonite, high on New Year's Eve of only in the low 40s, and on New Year's Day, our weather guy said it probably won't even make it out of the 30s, and the rain will continue through the day.   That will be a fun morning to do my New Year's Day 5K!  Luckily, the park where the 5K is being done is only about a mile from my house, so I won't have to drive on icy, wet roads to get there.

By Friday the cold weather starts to move out...and then we are back in the 60s and the weekend is predicted to be beautiful again!  Our weather goes back and forth like a madly swinging pendulum!  I think Mother Nature has a grudge against Texas for some reason, she just won't let us have some nice stable weather, one way or the other.

LRB, please pass a note to your Detroit Lions to KICK DALLAS COWBOY BUTT this weekend. Thank you...thank you very much!

Clothes. Problem solved.

It is below 0 here this morning, but since I'm on the DL, I wasn't going to run outside anyway. Attempted the elliptical - within the first 5 minutes, my knee went out. Switched to the bike, and it happened once there, too, when I had the leg to near full extension. So, 10 minutes bike, two miles walking on indoor track, another 10 minutes on the bike. And my knee is very achy now.

 It's 28 outside? What should I wear?

28 isn't that cold, but you already know that.  For me, that is light pants, light hoodie, winter hat, gloves.

Today my schedule calls for one easy hour of running.  The problem I've having is running "easy" right now when my legs are rested and ready to GO.  So yeah, I'll most likely end up running harder than easy.  Last night's "easy" run was 30 minutes at an 8:06 pace on hills.  I covered 3.79 miles,

And GOOD MORNING, imo.

It is sub 0 F with the windchill this morning. It is very sunny and the sidewalks are still dry, so it isn't bad at all. My second week of higher mileage is well on its way. No speed, just volume again. I'll run 10ish today.

B+, I'd wear what baboon said. But by now you're probably out.

TTYL, dailies

Send some of that my way.  Since you guys are colder, it's only 75F here (people are bitching, what?)

0 for me this morning.  Looks like I'm going to end the old/start the new year off with a no-run streak.  My thumb and a tablesaw had an argument yesterday after lunch.  My thumb lost of course.  The ER doc said I will need a little reconstruction, the chunk missing is too big to grow back properly.

I have to keep it clean and dry, and re-dress it every few hours.  When the throbbing stops, maybe sweating on it won't matter.

ETA: since you almost asked, and it is a cool pic in a nasty sort of way...

 

28 isn't that cold, but you already know that.  For me, that is light pants, light hoodie, winter hat, gloves.

I wore a toque instead.