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I woke to a white world. Just a light dusting of snow, and it seems to be melting fast. Still, it's foggy and gray, so more than a little damp. I may take a rest day today instead of tomorrow, especially since I'll be going with Jim to a doctor's appointment in a little while. (He's really bad at passing on the details of what the doctors say, and sometimes they matter.)
I had a good 6 mile run yesterday with some faster paced intervals. It was beautiful and sunny, so I'm glad I was outside. Very different from today's gray gloomy skies
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Ginny, waking up to snow must have been nice :-)
There's cold rain here all day. I might go to the gym and try to run some intervals there once I get some errands done. To be determined.
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Morning! I ran 13 with 5 X 1 @ 10K on the TM this morning with a congested chest. The cold body aches are gone but the congestion remains. So far, no big asthma bout and no meds needed. Watching it all the time just in case.
Ginny, a light dusting sounds good.
Jill, enjoy the gym.
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7.5 this morning. 10x600m hill repeats...
Ginny, hope it was pretty this morning! Enjoy the RD and good luck to Jim at the dr's.
Jill, hope you have a good day, running or not!
D- Hope you continue to feel better!
PAD- 600m on hills sounds awful! Good work.
I'll probably run 1-2 today.
PAD - that sounds like a brutal workout.
D - good job getting the run in despite the congestion. I know, you're used to not being able to breathe.
Jill - I hope you were able to get a run in.
Z - enjoy your streak run.
I ended up running today after all. The sun came out around noon and though it was really windy, it wasn't that cold. Jim's appointment only took about an hour so I had time to enjoy the mix of sun and clouds. The snow melted off completely. I ended up with 5.6 at a fairly brisk pace for me.
It was tough but not that bad. It was on the TM .4 @ 5% .3 recovery.