Cold Run or No Cold Run...

Temp currently 15 on intellicast, says it feels like 6, Kare11, the news station down the road says it’s 12, I don’t tend to like to run outside in anything less than 30, maybe 25…this is telling me there is a wind chill too…I hate the idea of 6 miles on the treadmill, but it’s cold out. I have along tights, my heavier pants, a thin top, a 3 season top and a windbreaker jacket, my gator, a hat and glitten…is that enough…the bottom I haven’t tried out yet and it isn’t really a wind breaker thing…I want to run 6, will take me about 50-54 minutes…can I be in that cold for that long…I have hot chocolate (should’ve held off on having one till I went for the run as I had one this morning already), could get coffee…I don't have a hot lunch and lunch will be over before I get done…decisions decisions…

Well, the decision was made and I ran outside. It was cold. Took about 1.5-2 miles before my hands were warm enough. My fingers were freezing at first, but were better after the 1.5 miles...I'm now freezing though. It wasn't a bad run though. No wind that I could feel, I managed ~6 in ~51 minutes...I could've wore my Garmin to get exacts, but with the time it takes to get a reading, I didn't want to wait around for it, so I just ran what I know is about that time frame and timed it on the gym clock from when I left to when I got back...Even with all that I was wearing though, my body was still red and itchy after, well, my legs and butt...that's where I always have a problem. And I had tights rated to -10 and heavier over pants, I didn't feel cold while running...I won't run in any colder though!! But it certainly beat the treadill.

Funny after story too. Two women were coming into the locker room and changing while I was getting ready to shower. One was telling the other she had seen a guy they know down there and the other was asking about if he was running outside or something, the one telling the story mentioned it had been hard to recognize him cause he was so bundled up and the other made a comment about not understanding the ones going out and doing that, she couldn't and that maybe conditioning or something might help her...I wanted to laugh as I had just taken my jacket off when they came in, while they were there I proceeded to take off the over pants, the first shirt, the undertop and my tights...where did they think I had run?? Some people...no common sense!