Indoor Track

10K on the community center indoor track today... No injuries... Sweet Pea and I are ready and eagerly looking forward to outdoor running in the next week or two.

Just 5K on the Indoor Track Today

Heard on the radio today: This was the first February since 1978 that the temperature here did not break 40 degrees. . . . All month!

10K on Indoor Track

Last year at this time we were doing marathons every other month. It is about time to start doing some longer runs, but the cold weather and the indoor track have not inspired me.
Anyway, I am trying to think of the 10K yesterday as some sort of beginning!

LATER PS: You can read about our trip to Mayo Clinic today at Myeloma Hope.

Both today: Strength training at home; Track running at community center

UW River Falls

Another indoor track explored: Knowles Center, University of Wisconsin, River Falls. For a small fee, open to the public most mornings during the school year.

Tomorrow we do weights/resistance training at home.. and now that I have written it here, I really have to do it!

Indoor Tracks

Thursday . . . Stillwater bubble running
Friday . . . Resistance/weights work at home
Saturday . . . Community Center running track
Sunday . . . Bethel University Field House
. . . . "Challenge" Races

Sweet Pea at Bethel track

PS Check out the new Delinsky book in my previous post if you missed it.

Still Running on Indoor Tracks

A couple inches of snow overnight effectively hides the slippery ice along the shoulders of the roads, so we were indoors again today. Forty-five minutes on a track.
Temp 13, wind speed 12 at 1:00pm

More Indoor Track

Warmest it will get today is 14. We went to the community center ... again ... this morning. Resistance/free weight work on Wednesday. Temp will be in low 20's on Thursday, but with a 15 mph wind. So back to the indoor track. Sigh.
I doubt that we will try to do the Valentine 5K around Lake Harriet in Minneapolis on Saturday morning. Friday overnight temp will be the week's lowest.

Do Not Inhale: Below Zero All Day

Wind chill overnight: -39. Temp below zero all day.
We 3 ... an hour on the indoor track at the center this afternoon. Felt great to run.

Here it comes again

This is a new picture... honest! It looks just like this again.. with blowing and drifting snow. Good news is we are not getting the blizzard that Fargo is getting. Bad news is we may get a 40 below wind chill again.
Cabin Fever Weekend.
So back to the indoor track and exercise machines.
Focus on the Valentine 5K next Saturday.

All together now: Spring is coming... Spring is coming... Spring is coming...

Most Christmas Snow since 1950

To enlarge, click on the picture.

We are running on the indoor track at the community center, often and regularly.

Indoor track at sunrise

We 3 did the indoor track for a couple of hours this morning... each of us at our own speed!

Since Tuesday, we have had a yucky inversion thing that makes running outdoors less healthy (and this isn't even Los Angeles.)

Running Indoors.... Baby it's cold outside!

On Thursday evening we ran on the upper concourse of the Twin's Metrodome in Minneapolis. A hundred runners showed up between the hours of 5 and 8:00.
On Wednesday morning we ran in the bubble in Stillwater, where they keep the temperature at a runner-friendly 50-something. Tuesday we ran on the faithful dreadmills at the community center.

I got in a little mall-walking while Sweet Pea was at a lesson.
Oh joy! The NEW TRACK is installed at the community center! Sweet Pea and Runner Don examined the track surface material.. as runners went by. And we tried it out of course. The new surface runs really good!!