Its funny how January weather changes so quickly … just 4 days ago (Monday), I made a conscious effort to run in SHORTS, just because I knew I could due to the temperature being 57 degrees. Now, i’m preparing for probably the coldest run i’ve had all season, with a forecasted temperature of 10 degrees, wind chill of zero, great.. that makes me want to get up and run in the morning. Its not that I haven’t run in this weather before and know how to get through it, but I was hoping I was over the coldest part of the season. Mother nature reminds me that its still January.

I’m debating as to whether to do a full 20 mile run tomorrow, or just to take a stepback weekend, and maybe just do a 13 miler instead. I skipped my stepback weekend a few weeks back, because the weather finally warmed up .. but then I get the feeling that i’m cheating myself out of the workout I should be doing. Well, guess we’ll decide in the morning. I somehow think regardless of what distance I decide to run, i’m not going to keep my pace properly with the cold weather. I’ve been struggling with my pace on long runs and the cold weather doesn’t help that all since I tend to run faster due to the cold.

Besides the drastic weather change though, its been a good week .. I got in 31 miles already between Monday and now, and i’ve started to overcome the insomnia i’ve been suffering from the last few weeks. I managed to get 2 nights of full sleep in, well, full sleep for me at least in that I got 8 hours of full sleep (right until the alarm went off).. no complaints. I just have to work on sleeping through the night on the other 5 days of the week, but we’ll get there, i’m confident of it.

Another report tomorrow, “post-run”, hopefully the cold won’t be that bad …