Especially when planning on running over an hour! I didn't get out of bed in time this morning to eat a bagel with cream cheese. But I still thought I would still be fine. Unfortunately, I was not.
I got there right at 7am and saw the most beautiful sunrise. Then we took off. I had no idea what we mileage we were going to do however. We totally took a different route than the last time I was out there (3 weeks ago).
My hands were again hurting, pins & needles. I tried to ball my hands into a fist but still nothing would help. I finally noticed that the pain was no longer there around 1.59 miles into the run and it felt NIIICE! I was also talking in the first part of the run. I thought that might have something to do with how hard it was but I'm leaning towards the no food.
We stopped around 3 miles for some Gatorade and started up again. This time I was keeping the same pace but everyone around me seemed to be speeding up! By the time we got to 3.5 miles, we were all split up. Luckily, I could still see the people in front of me so I knew where to go cause by that time, I was totally lost!
Other lessons learned: bring a snot rag with me to blow my nose into. I think I spent more energy sniffing and messing up my breathing.
It was also the first time that I wore my heart rate monitor outside on a run. Very exciting.
This was me towards the end of the run. Heading south, where the wind was coming from. Immediately after that my eyes started tearing up from the wind and my eyelashes starting freezing more so than they were before.
When I got in my car, I sat down and my butt was so cold, frozen! It hurt every time I hit a bump, it was like pins & needles all over again. Last night I was looking for pants to wear on top of my Under Armor ColdGear tights & under my jogging pants. Hind Women's Drylete XPT Pants. They're loose and will work in cold weather. I was thinking of the Arctic version of the pants but since I am going to wear the UA tights under them, I should be fine. I'm also gonna look for another top too. My fleece pullover was soaking wet which made me very cold when I stopped.I stopped at 5.84 but everyone else continued around the loop to finish up with 6 miles. I just couldn't run anymore. Here's a photo of them making their way around. It looks like a Nike ad! Running in the snow!!
Next Saturday should be just as warm so I'm looking forward to another run outside!Activity
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