Start time: 12/10/05, 8:00am
Location: W&OD Trail
Distance: 10 miles
Run:Walk ratio: 5:1
Average pace: 11:30min/mile
It snowed twice in the past week, and I was a little worried on how much snow would be on the trail. When we started out it looked like the trail had been plowed, and the only ice we had to worry about was where some snow had melted and then refroze in a new position. Then, a mile into the course, we discovered it wasn’t really the W&OD Trail that was plowed… it was the Custis Trail, which overlaps with the W&OD for that fragment of distance. Oops. So, a lot of running off of the trail where snow and ice was still clogging the asphalt, mostly between markers 4 and 2. Between the cold and the repeated slow-downs due to trying to avoid slipping and falling, I’m pretty happy with our pace under miserable conditions.
Better to be safe than waylaid with a rolled ankle!
Exactly–I’d have felt far too stupid for words trying to explain to everyone how I’d managed to wipe out on the snow and ice.
(“Did you see it?” “Well… yes…”)