Take that winter..:)

We are in week 10 of our training for next half marathon. I am still unsure if I can do the the Chilly half in Burlington, Its more my schedule in that week which I don;t have any control on. lets see.  This week we got the real taste of winter running and as the jet streams bought the cold Artic air down to Toronto. When I ran on Tuesday it was -21C wind chill and I thought I had see the worse of it. I was wrong Wednesday was really bad. As much as I can say take that winter it was a horrible day to run. We were supposed to hills and it was -18C without the wind. We decided to not do that and just run about 5K and come back. 

Sunday run was 14K and I did that last week too so I was hoping that to be easy. But we decided to do a new route which was really hilly and it was all the way up to Davisville on Jarvis and Mt Pleaseant. I was almost dead when turned back on Davisville but it was all down hill on the way back.
Surprisingly I found something in me on the way back and especially once we crossed Bloor I was actually able to blast through the last 3K. I really like now to go really like now to go slow at the start and blast at the end. I know this is going to take a while to perfect this because rest of the team tends to do opposite at start. Today the hilly route helped me to take it slow at the start.

Overall this was a good week. Even though I skipped my Thursday run I feel good especially with the cold weather I got my weekly numbers to grow and not get injured in the cold weather. Here is how the Sunday run went.