Yeah, that cold front or polar vortex or whatever arrived overnight. Today was cloudy, windy, and cold. Below-freezing cold. Since I had the day off I would have run in the morning, but there were crystals on the deck of some form of precipitation, and I decided to wait a little. This afternoon the mercury had risen to 36 degrees, and even though the wind chill was still below freezing I went for it. I thought about running on the treadmill, but this close to a race I don't really want to.
The plan called for a tempo run, which I did over the course of my 6 miles. As I've done a few other times, I walked up the hill by the golf course since the wind was blowing fiercely in my face. Other than that I got in the four miles of tempo, cutting the recovery portion of the run a little short. But that was fine, because even that felt like a big effort because of the wind. I'm looking forward to next week when the outings are shortened and I can rest my legs for the race.
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