I missed an opportunity to run Monday at lunch and was a little bummed about it. For some reason I thought running in the rain with potential freezing rain might be a bad idea. Then I drove to work Monday and saw a number of people running and the freezing rain didn’t happen. Dang! Missed the boat!

Yesterday I had driven to a meeting that was 1.5 hours away (one way) and found out after driving for 1h and 15 minutes that it had been cancelled earlier in the morning because of the snow we were getting. They forgot to add my email to the cancellation email that was sent out, so I didn’t know it was cancelled 😦 I turned around and drove back to the office and finished my day early since I had spent my lunch hour driving.

The whole drive back I kept thinking that a run would be just what I needed. A little, mental health run to rid myself of the day’s stress. So I called my husband and asked him to pick up the girls so I could run when I got home.

This is what the weather was calling for: Winds at 30 km/h, gusting to 50 and a temperature of -9C (plus windchill).

I bundled up and went anyway.

The plan was to run from my house to the highway and back. My silly Green Garmin wouldn’t catch at satellite so I had to go on MapMyRun to see how far I actually ran. I finally managed to run over 5k!!!!

The run out was great…cold but I had the wind at my back and it was awesome. No walking breaks at all, that made me happy. I ran to just before the highway as the sidewalks stop and I wasn’t going to run against traffic on the main road in town just for a few extra feet. I turned around into the crazy wind and made my way back.

Since my buddy (Garmin) wasn’t working I had not idea of my pace 😦 but ran for around 40 minutes and managed to clock 6.17 km! Yeah, me! It felt great to run that distance.

I got home and met my husband and girls in the driveway and went inside.

I think my face was frozen because it felt numb.

My thighs were SO red from the cold.

However, my head was in a better space. Oh running, how I love what you do for me.

Have you been stuck at the same mileage?

What did you do to get out of it?