It's cold here. It's snowing, not hard, but consistently. It's dark -- there's not much daylight here in Sweden this time of year anyway, but there are thick dark clouds -- like twilight. By the time I get home it will be dark, but the snow and clouds will reflect the streetlamp, so it will be strangely light. It's windy, I can see from the pines blowing outside my office window.
This is my running environment. I'm going to go out tonight in the strange light and wind and snow and run, intervals, for about half an hour. For the first time, I'm going to enable the "zombie chases" feature in my zombies run app. Just...putting everyone on notice that I'm going to hold myself accountable to you. It's hard to motivate yourself when the weather seems bad. Part of the discipline I want to build about my health.
xx to you all.
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Well done ejvcruns ! You have inspired me to go for my run, which I was tempted to put off
I am feeling very heavy and lethargic after celebrating two family birthdays, yesterday and the day before. I ate so much more than I have been over the last nine months and I don’t think it has done me any good!
I have no excuses though! It is sunny and light outside now. If you can run in the dark, cold and snow, I can do it in the light! I need to just get on with it!
Thank you for your positivity and I hope that your run is brilliant!
Very very jealous of your snow - I bet we don’t get any this year AGAIN but not sure I would want to run in it - so well done to you - just imagine how wonderful you’ll feel running in the springtime. I’ve just come back from my run - very windy but beautifully sunny here which made me happy to be running and so grateful that I can manage 5k.
Enjoy your cold, snowy run. If it isn't windy, they can be very enjoyable with the right layers. If you're doing speed intervals, be very careful you don't slip. I found when running on a thin layer of fresh snow, it was surprisingly slippery. If slogging through deep snow, it works the legs differently and your hips/hipflexors could be quite sore the next few days, so be sure to stretch well after.
Fortunately EJ it becomes a habit. I just tell myself I’m going and I do. No debate 😃. Once you’re out there it’s never as bad as you’d feared. Well, not often 😁
Go carefully on the slushy ground, wrap up well, tell someone where you’re going, and have fun 🏃♀️👍🙂
ejcvruns, I think I know how you feel about the season. We are running toward winter here in the states, but have only had a day of powdered sugar on the ground here in Michigan. I have not run in the winter before, having only started C25k and graduated this past summer. I'm concerned about the cold on my airways. Our trees have largely lost their leaves and beautiful fall color. Our furnace is running even as I type. Darker days are here and more are coming. I've been doing my runs on the track in the YMCA which is working for me now, but when we get heavy snow and driving is tough, I'm not sure how I'll handle that--maybe I'll have to do S25k (shoveling to 5k.)
That sounds very eerie, Elizabeth (but in a nice way). I feel like such a loser now – I am planning to run tomorrow before work, but they are forecasting rain (I hate running in the rain), so I was kinda wimping out, debating whether to run on Friday instead…but having read your post, I am going to go out tomorrow, as planned, rain or no rain!
(Are we committed or should we be committed?!) Hope that you do get out – and take care out there, too. Maybe NOT the best night for zombie chases??? (Again, I am super wimp, and have not tried the chases yet...)
Hi, in similar position, just in from work. Cold, wet, windy and dark out there (I’m in Stockport). Can we consider ourselves accountable to each other? No question that I’m not going out, just wish I wasn’t running round boring streets. Much more invigorating if I’m close to water or greenery 🙂 The light from the snow sounds preferable. Hope it’s safe underfoot for you.
You make it sound very exciting, but I know it's not when it's really cold - and windy. It makes it harder. I seize up. In England we've been lucky with the weather so far this year. Well done you for getting out there in spite of it all
Thank you everyone. We did, in fact, have a blizzard type of thing with high winds and heavy snow so it took me like an hour to get the kids home because they think that's a great time to play... -- I was exhausted by that time and stayed in, though I was (am) grumpy about it. Now it is raining. Presumably tomorrow it will be icy. BUT. I am in it for the long haul. There will be a few times when the weather is really foul and it's just not worth it.
Exactly. Mother Nature can be a little fickle sometimes. It's not worth getting hurt over (and having to endure a stint on the IC). I've had less than desirable weather lately (and I'm not put off by cold and snow) so I have had to resort to my treadmill 😫. They're calling for some seriously balmy weather here soon, so maybe, oh maybe, I can get a much needed outside run in this weekend 🙏. Here's hoping you can get out for a run in the next few days, as well 🤞
I took to the gym and the treadmill today for the first time ever! Running indoors isn't my thing at all, but the wind has been pretty bad today, and you never know what's flying around in it when you're out in the dark. The treadmill wasn't as bad as I'd thought it might be, and I didn't fall off it like I feared I might. It'll do as a bad weather backup, but I'm definitely an outside runner. I hope you get to go out really soon. ☺️
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30 mins in a blizzard!
A new route today and a query as a result!
Just one of the reasons I love to run :)
Only person not running in the snow...!
