16,5km

12,87km (8mi) in -22C

Due to some cabin/treadmill fever, I took the plunge and went running outside even though the thermoneter showed -22C. I could not stand the guilt of another cold, cold weekend passing me by without a run, so I went for it. Especially since I am just barely meeting the requirements of my marathon training schedule. Barely. Even though I have been breaking my personal land-speed records on the treadmill (5.68km in 30 minutes is my best so far), these 12,8km took me almost 1h30min on the icy roads. 1,5 hours in -22C is ok, I got used to it after a while and even my face warmed up, but the worst was after I got home, I ealized that I could not really feel my feet and somewhere along the way I had twisted my ankle and kept running. So yesterday and today I have been limping around and I doubt I will get in another 6,4km today that I owe from last week or the 3km "EZ" run scheduled for today. Oh well. Limping does not do me any favors as a working girl, so perhaps rest it will be today. My cheapie gym membership runs out in a week, and today it is a tropical -5C or so, so perhaps I will revisit 5am runs again. This would really solve the whole dodge to the gym during lunch and try to fit in some running and run back like a wild woman during the working day. MAybe today I can count as "cross training" as it looks like we might get in some sledding! In any case I have to get a bit more serious about sticking to my running schedule if I am going to make it through those 42km in May!   

3km

6,4 km

6,4km

3 km :(

5.52km

Ok, logging runs on the treadmill at lunch is going to get awfully boring for the reader, so if anyone actually reads this, sorry for the boring read, but life is getting in the way of my blogging, damn it and and i just have little time to be descriptive about what amounts to forced daily exercise. Because, let me tell you, I will take the worst run outside any day over 30 minutes of running as fast as I can on a treadmill to try to condense as much distance as humanly possible into my brief lunch break! That said, today's results- 1,5km on a elliptical because both crappy treadmills were being used and then I got on a treadmill which turns out hows everything in miles.Since I have no clue how fast or far I should run in miles, and smoke was coming from my ears calculating the 1,63km/mi  conversion, I gave up and just ran as fast as I could handle after an attack on the elliptical machine for 9 minutes, so I came to 2,5 miles in 22:30. Not really sure the elliptical "distance" counts, but I gave it all I had despite not wanting to be there in the first place. Although the elliptical faces a window vs. a mirror, so I could people watch, which was a lot better than watching my winter white body running in place. Ok, enough- 2,5 miles is 4.02km. Hm.  that is almost respectable for 22 1/2 minutes. (For me). Good stuff. So I will add my 1,5km on the elliptical for a a grand total of 5,52.