11-18-13 vs. 11-18-14

Last year at this time we probably walked several miles through our neighborhood in Washington going and helping family, friends, and strangers sort through the debris from the tornado that went through the day before. Today, I ran thorough the neighborhood again, I often run through it, but today it was a little more meaningful. Such progress! Here is a comparison from last year and then today during my run.

On the way to sister's 11-18-14

On the way to sister's house 11-18-13

From sister's house 11-18-14

From my sister's house 11-18-13

Today was cold and windy, but I am determined to run outside for as long as I can. I bundled up since the temperature outside was 19 and the wind chill was 7. I knew once I started I would be o.k., I just didn't know about how cold my face would get. Today's attire was 2-layers of pants-fleece lined leggings and running pants. 3 layers of shirts all long sleeved- a snug underlayer-Columbia running shirt and then wind breaker, gloves and a pull over hat/mask to cover my face.  The mask helped protect y face from the wind but it got to warm breathing so I had to pull it down a bit. If the wind got too bad I would pull it up for a while. After the first mile the gloves came off. I had plenty of layers on! Just getting ready to go with all the layers on started to make me sweat today.
Ironically, the first song that played on my playlist today was Summertime I just had to laugh. It's funny how all the songs play at all the appropriate time.
My legs were heavy today to start with, but then again they always are on Tuesdays.
I didn't go as far today as I had hoped, but I went 30 minutes. I was going to go the "long way" home to add some distance.  However,  I saw Mom and Dad coming home and they stopped and needed to talk...so I visited with them for a while and took care of some things at their house. After my "break" from running I ended up just taking the short way home...which was o.k. I still got in my 30 minutes.

1 mi

0.5 mi

1 mi

5 mi

10 mi

DISTANCE	PACE	ELAPSED TIME
1.0 mi	11:27 min/mi	00:11:26
2.0 mi	11:44 min/mi	00:11:43
2.7 mi	10:48 min/mi	00:07:17