Track Tuesday - Yikes it really got cold

Quicker post tonight hopefully I will have more time tomorrow and can talk a little bit more than just my life and talk about running in general.

Here is the schedule for the week

So not only was it -15C with the windchill today but it was snowing too. Luckily it was Tuesday, which meant it was TMRICE's (the most informal running club ever) track workout at Harvard Stadium in Allston. In 2014, I ran 33 of 52 Tuesdays the most runs on any day of the week thanks to this workout. You can pretty much count on people showing up whatever the weather.

Tonight, even with the track dusted in snow, we had a great turnout 8 people braving the cold. I again decked out in similar gear to yesterday, which was much more necessary given the cold. I got there early to run some extra distance and luckily Jill was there doing the same so it passed the laps around the track quicker.

Just a quick note, a track is 400 meter in length and usually the track workouts feature some sort of intervals that add up to 4.8km or 12 laps. Every first Tuesday of the month is the "Shawgo mile" where we run a timed interval of 1 mile within the track workout which helps track your progress month to month.

The total workout is as follows 800m/1mile (~1609m)/1200m/800m/400m (and sometimes a 200m sprint if the weather is decent). Everyone was pretty reserved tonight because of the weather and not running at full speed. Thankfully, Ivan showed up for the first time in 6 months or so and together we ran a pretty quick  mile for the weather. I clocked in at 6:08 tonight. It was my slowest timed mile at TMRICE in almost 1.5 years but I was still pretty happy with the effort. The rest of the workout was pretty slow except for the final 400m because my stomach really didn't feel well. Also, I apparently I was very energetic tonight as Meredith needed earmuffs numerous times while I was talking. Sorry Mere - I'll clean it up :-)

I got in 6.4 miles tonight - over the 5-6 I needed, which is good considering how cold Thursday is supposed to be! Probably will plan on going to DFMC Crossroads run on Thursday since I am not planning on going to their run on Saturday.

Apparently, reading about me running inspired a friend of mine to get out and run tonight, so if nothing else I have that :-)

Anyone have any questions? Anything you want to hear about?