Easy run, if you can call it that. Average pace: 10:25.
Outside temp: 28°F, wind from the north, light but steady snow
I did the level 3 shred before heading out.
When I started out the snow was sticking to grassy areas, parked cars, and me, but not to the roads. The roads were just wet. After about 4 miles, either the temperature dropped or the elevation went up or something, because then I had snow sticking to the sidewalks. I ran almost all of the rest of the way on about a quarter inch of snow. But then when I got back to my house, it wasn't sticking to the sidewalks.
I ran a little farther than I had intended. I was going to head north through this park/open space that runs roughly north/south, but I had to run eastward along the south end of the open space to get to the trail, and the wind was whipping down through that open space like nobody's business. It was very uncomfortable to run across the open space. I wasn't about to turn north and run straight into that wind. So I went farther in order to go around it. I did have to turn north eventually in order to get back home. It was on a busy street, so it was still fairly open and windy, but not as bad because there were houses on either side of the busy street. But that's the part where the snow was really sticking to the ground.
There was one point after I turned off the busy street onto a smaller street and I was still running on a snow, that it was very quiet and peaceful for just a second. There was no sound, except my breath and my feet padding along on the snow and somebody's wind chime. But then I care came by and broke the moment.
I think this morning as my first real inauguration into winter running. I was glad I had too pairs of socks on. And I was pretty wet by the time I was done. | 