Double Whammy

For the last couple weeks we've been hit with a double whammy. Every running log entry states: cold and wind. The wind chills have been brutal. Tuesday was the worst. The wind chill was -12, and it was a dry cold that seeps into your bones and stays there. I wouldn't have kept going had it not been for the encouragement (sometimes very firm encouragement) of my running buddy.

But today was a double whammy of a much more pleasant kind. The wind was still gusty for the first 3 1/2 of miles of our run, but the temperatures were 58 degrees. So the second whammy was the ever present hills in the Shenandoah Valley instead of bitter cold. Because the weather was so warm, we decided to take advantage of the weather and run our long run today instead of on the weekend when temperatures are expected to plummet again.

And I did this 10 miles four minutes faster than the last time (January 3) I tried; Butch did it 6 minutes faster. So that's progress. We're training as much as possible for the half marathon on March 1 and a second one on April 18.