last night it had rained & then dropped to around freezing which was going to make this mornings 18 mile a little interesting. The group run got delayed by a half hour to hopefully allow some of the roads to defrost s bit. Well that didn't quite work as well as planned. The roads were in completely different conditions every which way we turned. We ran through the Sprint campus and those roads were glare ice then the roads were good for a couple of miles. We turned east then which should have or I thought would have been good conditions that street was terrible!! 133rd was terrible for 3 miles and it was just enough that you slipped at the end of every stride. We turned off that and the neighborhoods have lots of trees that where basically raining on us. We zagged and zagged through these neighborhoods of ice slush and very few good traction places. Some people ended there runs early because it was a little strenuous and took a lot more effort than typical conditions. I knew people would modify their plans so I ran 2 miles before the group then 12 with a group then 4 miles by myself at the end. The last couple miles were very difficult to get through but I did my 18. Mentally I needed to since I have a few 20 milers coming up the next couple of weeks. Average pace for the run 7:45/mile. Still not bad considering the conditions.
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