We're in the midst of a freak cold snap around here for the last week or so. Temperatures are consistently in the -40'C range and it's made running tougher than usual. I've still been out there, it's just that it's been so cold you can barely see or think straight.
Cooler heads prevailed over the whole Ultra Marathon debate...tackle one thing at a time and maybe take some time to enjoy this journey before embarking on the next one...besides I plan to do Disney in 2015 and That's going to take up all my extra funding over the next year and yet another out of town run will end up costing me another $500.00...so yeah...no Ultra for me...or at least that's the decision for now.
Back to the arctic front we've been running in...I think the thing that makes it awesome is the total frost face you end up with. There's nothing like the realization that your upper and lower eyelashes have actually frozen together. You debate letting it go, but then you realize you can't really see where you're going. So you take off your mitt and attempt to pull them apart...because removing all the frost might ruin the most epic selfie you plan to take at the end of your run to show how hardcore and awesome you are! The you realize that in spite of being inside your jacket against your body, your camera has actually frozen solid and won't work.
~sigh~
No epic selfie for me this weekend.
...but I did manage to run...just not as far as I'd scheduled...but 5km in -43'C is like 15km in +10'C so it's all good.
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