Winter (death) running
Even writing this blog post makes me very sad. Why? Because even thinking about winter running right around the corner sends a shiver up my spine, quite literally. But here I go so prepare for an informative yet depressing blog.
Winter training is tough for two reasons. The first most obvious one is the cold and the snow and the ice and everything that comes with winter weather wise. It is so so so hard to get yourself to wake up at the crack of dawn and leave your warm bed to go run in negative temperatures every single morning. Putting on so many layers is literally exhausting and no matter how hard you try you either end up with not enough layers and you're freezing the whole run or you have way to many and you feel like a marshmallow who starts sweating profusely about 5 minutes into the run. Everything about it is tough and makes every run so much more taxing mentally and physically then those nice fall runs that we all fell in love with.
Now what I think the worst part about winter training is the fact that you have to do a very large part of it all by yourself. We all leave school around the very start of December and we come back about halfway through January. When we return to campus we only have a week of training together again before our very first indoor track meet. Only a week!! So basically for the month that you are home for Christmas, New Years and suppose to be relaxing by the fire and enjoying cookies, you need to be training very hard.....All by yourself...In the cold. That my friend is the true challenge.
So to all my fellow runners, good luck and stay warm!!!
Winter training is tough for two reasons. The first most obvious one is the cold and the snow and the ice and everything that comes with winter weather wise. It is so so so hard to get yourself to wake up at the crack of dawn and leave your warm bed to go run in negative temperatures every single morning. Putting on so many layers is literally exhausting and no matter how hard you try you either end up with not enough layers and you're freezing the whole run or you have way to many and you feel like a marshmallow who starts sweating profusely about 5 minutes into the run. Everything about it is tough and makes every run so much more taxing mentally and physically then those nice fall runs that we all fell in love with.
Now what I think the worst part about winter training is the fact that you have to do a very large part of it all by yourself. We all leave school around the very start of December and we come back about halfway through January. When we return to campus we only have a week of training together again before our very first indoor track meet. Only a week!! So basically for the month that you are home for Christmas, New Years and suppose to be relaxing by the fire and enjoying cookies, you need to be training very hard.....All by yourself...In the cold. That my friend is the true challenge.
So to all my fellow runners, good luck and stay warm!!!
I have Saturday dog-running duty (the hubby gets the other 6 days a week), and I hate the winter days. Bundling up and never knowing if it's too much or not enough until it's too late to fix is the worst.
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