Snow!

I hate the cold, but I love running in the snow. Last night was no exception. Lower loops are a little repetitious, but understandable under the conditions. The park was pretty empty and the roads were covered in a nice layer of snow due to a full day of frozen precipitation. I got in 3 lower loops of the park for a little over 5 miles and chatted with Worku. He told me he's doing the 3M Austin half marathon this weekend, so I gave him a rundown of the course and told him I would print out a map and give more more details on the course.

The 3M half is the first half of the old marathon course before they changed the Austin Marathon to a loop. Its weird to think that I first ran that course 8 years ago, but that's how long its been. My first marathon is now 10 years ago this past weekend--Houston 1999. That was a brutal, brutal day. 4:52:xx worth of pain and suffering, which taught me that knocking out a few 7 milers isn't going to make a marathon very pleasurable. I was lucky, very lucky. I was also stupid. I could have easily been one of the people you read about collapsing on the course. I've come a long way. Hopefully in a few months, I will see a sub-3:10 finish.