January 2016

It's been a week since the big snowstorm, and the roads and most sidewalks are pretty clear. The Custis trail was cleared too, very nice. Except for the connector in Ballston, but I ran on the service road there. The worst were the sidewalks on Washington Blvd.

The weather was great. I ran without gloves.

Snow everywhere. The hill up on Johnson St wasn't cleared, neither was Johnson St itself. Good exercise! Key Blvd was clean.

At Lee Highway had to cross to the other side early to use a path.

Ran in the morning, an hour or two before the first snowflakes came down.

First run in a couple of days, cold 6 is now more or less behind me. It was very cold outside this morning, ran with my long pants.

It was 23 degrees when I left this morning. Leo had been crying a few times at night -- he has a cold -- but when I left he was still asleep.

I woke up at 6.00 am -- but so did Leo! So I couldn't sneak out like I usually do. I made him breakfast at 6.20 am and ten minutes later Sasha took over. So I left at 6.40 am today. It was more light than normal, obviously. Still pretty cold. Took a short course to be back in time.

I got my Invisalign retainers yesterday. Normally I start my run with a chewing gum -- that is no longer an option. Run was pretty slow, not unusual for a Friday. My left Achilles hurt a little Wednesday and yesterday after a very cold run, let's see today.

This was the coldest run I did in a long time. It was 22 degrees when I left home this morning at 6.20 am. Brrr... my fingers got cold ten minutes in, but then later got better.

My cold is almost over. Still coughing a little but not much. Run this morning was very nice. I heard Leo at 5.50 am and was worried he was waking up but thankfully he wasn't.

First time in two weeks that I ran my regular course again, went well if a bit slow.

I did pass a couple who were probably doing their New Year resolutions. I was way faster than them, that was nice.