Snowball Series #2 Kirkwood 4 miles

 

This might be the craziest run I have ever done (although I'd have to think back to the Stan Musial Bridge one to even compare!).  We still have a bunch of snow & ice around.  It has started to thaw for a couple of days, but it was bitterly cold and there was ice everywhere.  You had to be really careful not to fall and it made everyone's time slower, but the goal was really to stay upright!!!  There was a particularly bad spot where we all had to wait in line to stagger across the ice & a couple of other places where we had to line up to get through.  There were some caualties, but luckily I wasn't one of them.  I had already fallen earlier in the week, I don't need that again!!!!

Snowball Series #1 5K Forest Park

 

Really good pace this morning.  It was colder than I thought it would be & my back has been bothering me, so I was happy with the result.

Frostbite series #2, 2 miles

 Ran with Joe this morning.  He definitely pulled me along!!!!  Pretty good pace for me and the weather was perfect for running.  I'm in 3rd out of 15 place in the series standings.

Frostbite Series #1, 3K

 

It was absolutely pouring this morning.  Why did I do it???  So I had the option to bow out of a later one is the weather is really bad!!!!  MUCH slower than last year though.

Hot Chocolate Run 2024

 Great run today and great time.  Weather was perfect.  I was 3rd of 7 in my group, so a good showing overall.  I also shaved almost 2 minutes off my time from 2 years ago! I'm very happy

St. Louis Half Marathon with Joe Wheeler

 

Joe asked me to do this at the last minute.  This is the first time I've done that and I am so glad I decided to say yes!!  We did a pretty good job, a little bit faster than the Cowbell.  Of course, we started off at an 11:30 pace and then got slower towards the end.  We walked quite a bit that last couple of miles.  Still we really enjoyed it and that's all that matters

MO Cowbell Half Marathon with Joe Wheeler

This was the first long run I had done with someone else, and it made it way more enjoyable.  We made sure that we didn't overextend ourselves and we did really well.  It was around 70-75F and very sunny, so not my ideal running conditions and we had an interesting hill at the end where the sun was blazing in our eyes-the most challenging part.  This is about my usual half marathon pace, so I'm happy with it.  Best of all, I feel fine the next day....