Ran at mid afternoon today. Snow still falling in lightly. Just seems to get weirder and weirder. The streets are in pretty good shape, but unfortunately the streets seem a little slimmer with the snow thrown to the side. The sidewalks are 50/50 but that might have made the run quicker.
I felt ragged out there, the start was tough with a slow 3k uphill that the first half had snow on it so trying to find the small steps and good footing was not very successful. Snow cleared off in a couple of places so it go better but I felt ragged the whole way everywhere I ran. Just kept trying to stand up straight and use good foot work.
By the end it was 6 minutes quicker than the last two days. But felt rough, probably a combination 4 straight 15k days and the roughness of the terrain at this point. Positive sides were the good work up the hills and concentration. I managed to get some good speed going toward the end and hit some snow patches that were like sand and noticed that if I have good rhythm going and hit a bad patch of snow that my steps are very efficient, quite small and really good. Interesting that I can't do that at the beginning and it takes about 1/2 the run to get to that point.
Something to think about.
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