I always try to do a run on New Year’s Day and this year was no different.  I had planned to run for about 45 minutes, at some time during the day, and I wanted to run outside.  The problem was, the weather was not cooperating.

The weather was dry and cold first thing, but I was a little late getting out of bed and by the time I had breakfast, the weather had turned.  It had started to rain, but no ordinary rain, it was freezing rain.  I could see mini icicles forming on all the trees outside and I knew that meant that the road surfaces would be too slick to run on.

I really didn’t want to do my run on the treadmill, so I decided to check the weather radar.  Maybe the temperatures would warm up a little and it would stop raining, at some point during the day.  My wish looked like it might happen, but not until very late in the day.  I decided to wait out the rain.  If my weather forecast turned out wrong, I could always still do a treadmill run in the evening.

About 4.00pm, I looked outside and it had stopped raining.  I went outside to check the surfaces of the sidewalk and the road, to see if they were slick…  they were not.  I was going to be able to do my run outside after all.

I had a really nice, relaxed run.  The temperature was not too bad and even though I needed my headlight at the end of the run, everything worked out great.  So my New Year is off to a running start, which means I am already ahead of last year.  I couldn’t run at this time last year, because of a stress fracture in  my foot.

Tomorrow is a bike day.  That session will be indoors, but that’s OK.  I am used to riding the trainer at this time of year.