Just a little break

Well it got pretty cold here the rest of January... I know, I know no excuses. But sad news is, I didn't end up running the rest of January.
So my last run was Jan 7th at 12 degrees... here was what the rest of January was like:
Hi/Lo
8th: 13/-3
9th: 17/10
10th: 17/-3
11th: 17/-1
12th: 14/-2
13th: -1/-20
14th: -4/-16
15th: -6/-22
16th: 9/-24
17th: 21/8 -\
18th: 26/6 --\
19th: 21/2 ---\
20th: 20/2 ----\
21st: 28/15 ----/yeah yeah, i could have gotten out during this time...
22nd: 29/5 ---/OH WAIT I was in Missouri ;-) helping to bring my new niece into this world
23rd: 21/-6 -/
24th: 2/-13
25th: 7/-8
26th: 6/-10
27th: 10/-9
28th: 16/-4
29th: 20/0
30th: 21/-10
31st: 45/20

I DID go for a short run with the family (Kyle and Harpo) on Sunday, just a short 10 minute run, but a long walk. Then today I went for another run, short again 20 minutes, but hey it's been a month.

The weather here has been rather wicked. It was super cold most of January (below zero) and the past week it has warmed up, but that means melting snow, which re-freezes into ICE! Not so great to run on. Sunday we ended up just running in the street. Today it had gotten warm enough that a lot of the ice was now just puddles, except for those sidewalks in front of those darn people that didn't shovel as good. I just hopped over it, or hopped into the street until the next street. I did start off on the trail I usually run on... but about 2 minutes in it turned into solid ice and I turned around and headed back to the residential streets.

Anyway, it felt good to be back in the run. I'm so glad the weather's getting nicer, I'm ready to get back up to my 4 miles!