Yesterday’s run was quite different than planned. I’d hoped to go out for a 12k in the afternoon, but wasn’t paying enough attention to schedules. As it turned out, I wasn’t able to get out of the house till 6:30. The temperature was at around -5 C as I was starting, and since there had been some melting during the day the shoulders were slick.
My ipod decided to start acting up, about a minute into my run it crashed. Well, I reset it, and it crashed again. For the 1st 3 km I kept taking off my gloves (brrr) resetting the ipod, holding it while it rebooted, having it crash, deciding I’d run without music tonight, then after a few minutes decide to reset it again, etc. The fact that I had a new playlist I wanted to listen to wasn’t helping my attitude. Anyways, after about the 5th reset I tried a different playlist and it worked fine.
I ran up into town, traffic was pretty light so it wasn’t too bad running on the road. I came out of town at around 6 km on some backroads towards home, and this part was fantastic. Up until then I hadn’t realized that it was a perfectly clear night. I had about 25 minutes on this stretch, with no streetlights running under the stars. I started hearing a clunking noise next to me at one point, took me a few minutes to realize it was the water in my bottles freezing.
I ran 12.5 km, at a 6:03/km pace. I was a bit concerned about my right Achilles last night, but none of my assorted injuries are too sore today.
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