I'll Run Here. Wait, No, Here

The fog was as thick as I've ever seen it when I headed down 81st to the Creek Turnpike Trail this morning. (Lucky I had my trusty head light!) I parked under the bridge across the street from Grace Fellowship and headed west...for about 100 yards. After slipping and sliding on the thin sheets of ice that were covering the path, I decided to turn around. I had hoped that the path would be clear today but alas, it wasn't.

As I got in my car and left, I debated: treadmill at the gym or neighborhood run. In light of the fact that a trip to the gym would require a clothing-change (no, I'm not going to wear my tights on the treadmill at the Y), and the fact that I just don't like to run on treadmills, the neighborhood run won out.

I decided to keep it at 5 miles (my plan for today was 8), as I had already lost too much time in my plan-change. It was one of those runs where I'd look up periodically and say, "how did I get here?" Guess I was just deep in thought--or just not paying attention (probably more likely).

I was very happy with my pace today. Not sure what happened there. Maybe I should just disengage more often? Of course, it's a very easy path. Essentially hill-free aside from a couple of minor inclines in the neighborhood streets.

Hopefully the sun will come out today and melt all of the the ice off of the Creek. I'd really like to hit 8 miles tomorrow, especially in preparation for this weekend's 18.

Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 672 ft Location: Broken Arrow, OK Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 02/03/10 Up/Downhill: [+193/-193] Time: 05:54 AM Difficulty: 2.8 / 5.0 Weather: Freezing Fog 26 F temp; 88% humidity 26 F heat index; winds Calm Performance Distance: 5.34 miles Time: 0:42:49 Speed: 7.5 mph Pace: 8' 01 /mi Heart Rate: 157 bpm (Avg) Calories: 635 167 bpm (Peak) Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Elevation Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 8' 11 +0' 10 7.3 -0.2 +13 ft 2 8' 06 +0' 05 7.4 -0.1 -7 ft 3 8' 03 +0' 02 7.5 -0.0 -7 ft 4 7' 57 -0' 04 7.5 +0.1 0 ft 5 7' 55 -0' 06 7.6 +0.1 0 ft end 7' 43 -0' 18 7.8 +0.3 0 ft Versus average of 8' 01 min/mile

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