Saturday, January 30, 2010

Running in snow

This morning I awakened to 4-5 inches of snow (still snowing, by the way), air temp of 17 degrees fahrenheit, winds northeast 5-10 miles per hour for a windchill of 10 degrees. For the first time ever, I added Yak Trax Pros to my running shoes. They worked great! I ran 9 miles slow (ppm 10:13) which is what my training schedule called for today, for a weekly total of 21 miles. Blood sugar was 66 pre-run, so I ate 6 Dex-4 tablets, plus 1/3 of a Snicker's marathon bar. Post-run blood sugar was 107, and I used a temp basal rate of 50% for ninety minutes. It seemed to work well. Because it was so cold and snowy, I had a few issues with glasses fogging up, and my eyelashes icing over. Forgot to wear my heart rate monitor today, which would have been good to have the added data during my run (keeping at an average aerobic heart rate of 136). It was a good and adventurous run. Happy snow everybody!

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