Running With Friend and Foe - The Wind

I have been quite consistent with making late blog entries. I have ran 3 times since my last entry. To update the running mileage log - I ran 4 outside on Saturday, another 4 outside on Monday and then shied away from the cold temperatures which were in the low 20's today and ran 3 miles inside on the treadmill.

If I have calculated accurately, I have ran 43 miles this month! Not what I should have totaled, but it will have to do. I am pleased none the less.

I'm really needing that mild winter to come back around. Where is it? Even as I write this post, it is snowing, again!

The last two times I ran outside I ran in some of the windiest weather yet. I'd much rather run in the heat, the cold, the rain or snow, but I do not like the wind, at least not when its coming right into my face. It is a fierce foe and makes me work harder while making me feel like I'm making very little head way. On the other hand, the wind can become quite a comrade when it is at your back. On Saturday, one gust of wind came at my back so hard and fast it nearly knocked me on my face. I couldn't help but pick up my pace and it was with such ease. It felt effortless. So my running in the wind was appreciated as well as very displeasing to me. I liked it, then I was disgusted by it. It was my friend and my foe at different times throughout my course.

I am hoping for less windy weather to run in on Friday. And warmer too! We'll see what the weather man says. In the mean time, I'm praying for the return of the mild conditions we had earlier in the season.