Brrrrrr! A bit nippy out!

[Fishypieface]

Blimey! Just a bit chilly out this morning! Time (at last!) to break out the new long tights, long sleeves, big flouncy (long!) vest over the top, new fleece hoodie zipped up, new snoody neck thing, new running gloves! Oh the excitement!! 40 mins later the only thing that had come off were the gloves…. Freeeeeeezing!! But it was such a bracing, beautiful clear morning, it certainly felt great to be alive, out and in it at 6.25am. Even if I couldn’t feel my legs below the knee… More like stilts. It was a bit of a hard, painful run, but it was also a wonderful one. Can’t grumble at that

[Razouski]

Wow, sounds like you were wrapped up well and truly. Well done for braving the cold.

[Fishypieface Graduate in reply to Razouski]

It's my first time in the cold as I started in May, so it's going to take a bit of getting used to I can tell!!!

[Vixen67 Graduate]

Lol love the idea of a flouncy top I found my new long sleeved half zipped top to be a complete nightmare riding up and explosing flesh that only I ever see lol ... I tucked it in my running pants pulled my cap down 🏃🏼‍♀️👍🎃

[Fishypieface Graduate in reply to Vixen67]

Oh no! What is it about running clothes for women?! Nothing fits properly... hence my flouncy vest over my long sleeved top, which covers a multitude of sins! Therefore am usually very sweaty but not today! I need to move to Alaska!

[Wantorun2013 Graduate]

Haha this made laugh l went out early this morning too 4 degrees temp just in leggings and thin tee shirt. l get so hot when l run l would just expire if l wore all that 😂😂 was a bit nippy at first though😬. I would leave a trail of clothes behind me😂

[Fishypieface Graduate in reply to Wantorun2013]

Me too am normally, sweating buckets! It was 4 here too and it was freeeeeeeeeezing!! You are amazingly brave in just a tee shirt. I thought I would have to strip off, but no, thank God for all those in close proximity, I kept it all on!

[Wantorun2013 Graduate in reply to Fishypieface]

😂😂👍

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to Wantorun2013]

I went out a bit more wrapped up yesterday morning and had to strip off too !

[Sadie-runs Graduate]

Ooooh sounds like a lovely, bracing run, FPF! 🏃‍♀️❄️

[Fishypieface Graduate in reply to Sadie-runs]

Yep, certainly was!

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I am sooo pleased to have the cold weather. Last week's running at the coast was warm and mild and really good fun but now I am embracing the winter- in t shirt and leggings too

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Sounds chilly and wonderful...very, very well done

[Mummycav Administrator Graduate]

Blooming hummer, I’m freezing reading your post!!! That’s a lot of layers Fishypieface ...my turn to brave the cold in the morning...& I’m not prepared running kit wise, I just have a long sleeved running top...I’m sure I’ll be burning up after the first five minutes of running though...!! Brrrrrrrr

[Fishypieface Graduate in reply to Mummycav]

It was chuffing freezing! I usually sweat like a pig but not today. Couldn't take my top off anyway as had my blinking arm band on! Another faff to sort out! Good luck tomorrow, I think it's meant to be a bit warmer

[TJMazz Graduate]

Gosh how cold is it there? Was 2degrees here this morning when I went running at 5.30 and still had to remove running jacket and run in just my run top. I warm up very quickly

[Mummycav Administrator Graduate in reply to TJMazz]

Me too...I’m like a boiled egg after 5 minutes!!! Lol 😂

[TJMazz Graduate in reply to Mummycav]

Think it’s my age 😂😂😂

[Mummycav Administrator Graduate in reply to TJMazz]

I’ve always been like that!!! I used to be a short distance runner...100 metres & I was like a raspberry afterwards!!! Lol 🙄

[TJMazz Graduate in reply to Mummycav]

I wasn’t ever really a runner before but used to play netball 5 times a week and was always like a tomato 🍅

[Fishypieface Graduate in reply to TJMazz]

Wow, now that's cold (and early!!!!!). Normally I'm like a boil in the bad chicken, but today I was proper arctic

[HeadInTheClouds Graduate]

Sounds like a lovely run, but a bit bloody cold for me..!! Part of the reason I chickened out of running tonight was because it was soooo cold (and I had the ar*e ache and my knees were moaning a bit)... right, I've run out of excuses 😂

Really well done for being up and out at that time of the morning, whilst I'm still in snoresville 😴

[Fishypieface Graduate in reply to HeadInTheClouds]

I was awake at blinking 4am, then 5am, then 6am..... Clocks changing and all that crap . I just piled on everything I own and legged it It was a lovely, crisp sunny morning - worth the sleepless night (just about!)

[HeadInTheClouds Graduate in reply to Fishypieface]

Oh no, that is crap..!! I'm usually out like a light... do a zombie walk for a wee at some point in the night... then nothing again until my cup of tea and a kiss arrives in the morning 😂

[Fishypieface Graduate in reply to HeadInTheClouds]

Haha! Alright for some! I would love to sleep like a log, alas those days are over so might as well get up and do something useful. Plus it's the only time of day I get just for me! Bloody bliss!!

[HeadInTheClouds Graduate in reply to Fishypieface]

I've always been a sound sleeper (apart from the spells of night sweats and hot sodding flushes)..!! I so wish I could run in the mornings - body just says 🖕🏻🙄

[Fishypieface Graduate in reply to HeadInTheClouds]

Oh God yes I know what you mean!! Haha, mine says that too, any time passed 5pm!

[HeadInTheClouds Graduate in reply to Fishypieface]

I'm going to start a new community page "Painfully slow menopausal runners" 😂

I hope you have a better night tonight 😴

[alvi Graduate in reply to HeadInTheClouds]

Fab sign me up!!

[HeadInTheClouds Graduate in reply to alvi]

😂 You're in..!!

[ejvcruns Graduate in reply to HeadInTheClouds]

Me too!!

[HeadInTheClouds Graduate in reply to ejvcruns]

You're in too..!! 😂

[Pc59 Graduate in reply to HeadInTheClouds]

Thats for me too! Especially no sleep !

[HeadInTheClouds Graduate in reply to Pc59]

...and another 🤗

[Fishypieface Graduate in reply to HeadInTheClouds]

Can you imagine??! 😂😂

[HeadInTheClouds Graduate in reply to Fishypieface]

We'll be crawling down the road, hot and sweaty with half of us crying and the other half killing any passer by that looks at us in a strange way 😂😂

[Fishypieface Graduate in reply to HeadInTheClouds]

Sounds like a perfectly normal run to me!

[HeadInTheClouds Graduate in reply to Fishypieface]

😂😂