No running this week. First I was waiting for my stubbed toe's swelling to go down. Then yesterday it felt close to normal, if still a little stiff, so I tried to run up on my fairgrounds street. It had already been plowed after our 5-6" snowfall on Wednesday, and Nick's Vivobarefoot Neos seemed to provide pretty good traction on the compacted snow, and my Merino wool layers kept me warm enough in the single-digit temps and below zero (F) windchill, but my right MCL felt funny soon after I started, so I bailed after less than a half mile. I haven't done much stretching or massaging this week, maybe that's why. Or maybe it was Wednesday's squat fest. (Have I mentioned how much I love overhead squats?)
In any case, today it feels fine, but it's almost as cold as Winterpeg out there (-3F/-7F windchill), so I'll just finish the week with two more st sessions today and tomorrow and start fresh with a run on Sunday, when the high should get up into the teens.
Kind of disappointing, but I suppose a week off can be a good thing, like taking last week mostly off from st was. This week I've been having really good st workouts. My front/back, top/bottom pairings are really coming into their own now. Hopefully this tweaklessness will continue. It feels great to settle in and not have to think too much while I'm lifting, like the way a good run feels.
So the solution to that if I want to run really easy is not to look at the watch.
Yah, gadgets can definitely mess with one's head. These days, my Garmin serves mostly as an odometer. While in the middle of a run, there's only three pace measurements: slow, so-so, and somewhat faster.
Edit: congrats on the half marathon run Scratch! You've made really rapid progress! Must be all the run dreams.
Mid 20's if it is sunny and not windy. Freezing if conditions are iffy. Above freezing if ground is wet.
That sounds about right. I can go a little colder than that, but I think 20s is the norm under dry, windless conditions. Most people with decent cold tolerances should be able to manage that. But if the marathon starts early the ground could be colder than air temp, right?
