Light mornings

Following the disaster on Sunday I was pleased to get a green light this morning although the score was borderline. Green means go so that's what I had to do. I did consider staying under the covers as it was -2degrees at 6am. I even tried to justify it on the basis I could run in the evening when my son was at athletics but in the past this hasn't always worked out so I told the "chimp" to shut up and swung my legs out of bed. That motion means there is no going back as the momentum carries me out of the bed, gives my wife a cold blast of air which causes her to grab all the available covers so there is no way back!
I covered every part of skin I can including pulling my buff up the back of my head so it goes over my base ball cap and covers my ears.  I know what you're thinking, great look (not), but running in these temperatures is not for the fashion conscious - they are still in their warm beds!
The sky was blue, there was a beautiful sun splitting the sky but the pond in the garden was covered in ice and the trees looked like they'd been painted white.  Within a few hundred metres the tears were rolling down my cheeks as the cold bit. How lucky am I was the thought going through my head. 55 minutes of fantastic running and I felt amazing. Time for a quick breakfast and then off to the office. I aim to have two more early morning runs to up my weekly mileage and remind my legs that we've go a big event coming up and they need to be ready.