Woke to some real snow coming down. Interestingly my attitude to that was more of, it is what it is. I have no treadmill to work with as an excuse so that set the tone for what turned in to a very good run. Ran about 11:00 a.m. By then it was above 0 C but still snow.
My mind set was run slow, good foot work and keep moving forward. However, the streets, while very wet, were in good shape and surprisingly several sidewalks had been cleared. Still there were about 2 km of very bad footing. I changed the steps to a more outward (like wearing snow shoes) step in one of them and started to laugh out loud while doing, I thought I might look like a gorilla running down the street to someone in a car.
In the second area of bad footing, I felt myself get very tight in the shoulders and I relaxed and really just went through things nicely. That was a very enlightening 2 minutes; taught me a great deal. I hope I can manage to remember that experience in the coming months.
The running turned out to be quite good and I finished up nicely. Again, showing the patience and positiveness keep things going nicely.
This has been my best mileage week in years. Very happy with 7 straight 15k days in this weather.
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