2016 LBLM Training Week 8 - Part Two

    So the stupid winter storm had reached us Tuesday night, by Wednesday morning I woke up at 4:30 and was trying to make excuses to stay in bed... I was trying to tell myself that losing another week wouldn't hurt.... I think I got up at 4:45 AM and got dressed.
    It was 25 degrees out, there was already 3-5 inches of snow.... and it was still snowing. My first thought out there was "I'll be lucky if I can get 7 miles out of my legs in this weather".....this wasn't road running!!!! This wasn't even like running on trails! If it wasn't 3-5 inches of snow, it was tire tracks that were really slick, at some points I literally felt like those cartoon characters who are running really fast and then hit ice and they're instantly running in place.
  It was a tough, slow run for me. But I got it done, and I did manage to run 10 miles in 1:43:10 with an average pace of 10:21 min/mile
Laps/Splits were
Mile 1 - 10:42
Mile 2 - 10:52
Mile 3 - 10:19
Mile 4 - 10:15
Mile 5 - 10:23
Mile 6 - 10:09
Mile 8 - 10:14
Mile 9 - 9:54
Mile 10 - 9:40

     Thursday would've been another winter run, but Dorian was restless and I lost track of time and was tired myself. Sadly DH didn't make it home early enough last night so I could run so hopefully that is only 2 no run days this week. 
    This morning I fought the urge to stay in bed hard, there was more now and it was snowing. Eventually I did get up and get moving, and stepping outside I soon realized that it wasn't just snow, it felt like hail pelting my eyes. The winds were at 12 mph NNE, and even though the temperature was 28 it felt like 18 degrees. I was pretty comfortable except for my eyes, they were hurting and I was really wishing I had glasses of some kind on. It was easier when I was facing the south rather than the north but it still sucked.
   I managed to get in 8.1 miles this morning, in 1:21:48 with an average pace of 10:06 min/mile. 
Laps/splits were:
Mile 1 - 9:44
Mile 2 - 10:46
Mile 3 - 10:09
Mile 4 - 10:06
Mile 5 - 10:06
Mile 6 - 10:14
Mile 7 - 9:50
Mile 8 - 9:54
.1      - 10:21

     I've got an 8 mile run tomorrow morning, but the real uncertainty will be Sunday and the 18 mile run I've got planned.