what are you going to do tomorrow?

I will just suck it up and get out and run. it will be fun to run in the crazy snow, as long as you don't get hurt. and it'll all be melted by thursday anyway!

I expect to run in place on my living room carpet

Hopefully, the cars will stay off the roads and leave the entire cleared area for the runners. I went out in the middle of it this morning and saw three cars, a bunch of plows and no other runners.

Did everyone run today?

This sucks.

I was out before the snow started - one of the colder mornings I can remember. You always find a way.

treadmill! I'll run in the snow, but this is ridiculous. I put in 12 on the treadmill today,plus 3 20 min shoveling "sessions". I expect to be on the treadmill again tommorrow.

If I can get to the gym, it'll be the treadmill. Otherwise, maybe try to do some easy mileage on the streets.

I bet they just went out and slogged through the snow... which is what I plan to do... 3-5 miles in the morning... then 7-12 miles after work... maybe it'll be 8 or 12-minute per mile pace... but the effort will be much more... it'll melt in a day or so...

Once in a while, during a big storm, I run on trails/grass in the 18" or more of snow at around 8:00 pace. My heartrate stays up like I am running 6:00 pace. You can't do this often as it will beat you up, but I find slushy/icy roads or treadmills all the time will make sore IT's/Hamstrings as well, so it is a nice isolated diversion.

We're supposed to get 18 inches here in northern NJ, and by 6AM tomorrow, we should already have 6 on the ground. Therefore, I'm running inside on the 'mill. It's wicked boring, but what can you do?

girlyrunner wrote:

I will just suck it up and get out and run. it will be fun to run in the crazy snow, as long as you don't get hurt. and it'll all be melted by thursday anyway!

Spoken like a true Floridian. Yep, I'm sure all 2 feet will be melted by Thursday. I was at the W&OD trail on Thursday and it was still covered from the last snow.

hey Doug - those long treadmill runs are brutal, but it does beat trying to slog it out through the slop. Which is exactly what I will be doing up here tomorrow because I have no treadmill.

stuck in Teaneck wrote:

hey Doug - those long treadmill runs are brutal, but it does beat trying to slog it out through the slop. Which is exactly what I will be doing up here tomorrow because I have no treadmill.

Well, it's actuall the light, fluffy kind of snow... too cold to be "slop". But, good luck and stay away from traffic and snow plows. I've got narrow roads where I live, so after a few close calls, I run on the treadmill in extreme situations like this.

If it is any solace to all of you on the East coast, what you are experiencing this weekend has been typical since January 1 here in northwest Michigan. Weekend long runs have been done in 6" of snow and crappy footing on a regular basis. Temps have been single digits and below zero in the morning. My feeling is that it just makes you tougher (but this has been the worst Boston prep in a few years because of the conditions.) so get out the door, enjoy the run.

yeah, it could be worse. you could be in texas having run 4 or 8 or even 12k on the worst cross country course ever designed by man... if texans are really people.

btw, don't mess with texas. it'll f--k you up.

and if you little girlie men aren't too busy on your treadmills and the living room carpet, go ahead and take those shovels on down to the airport so marc pelerin can come home and talk trash and hook up with his ex girlfriend this weekend. thanks.

talk to ya bye.

texas waffle house fiends wrote:and if you little girlie men aren't too busy on your treadmills and the living room carpet, go ahead and take those shovels on down to the airport so marc pelerin can come home and talk trash and hook up with his ex girlfriend this weekend. thanks.

this is another fiend. texas bites. there are only strip joints and car dealerships, and crappy cross country courses. what a disgrace. haha. at least they have waffle house and sonics. giddy up. well gotta go to bed, and get up at 5am to confirm our rescheduled flight is cancelled.

twhf#2 out

don't mess with texas.

oh yeah and they have this stupid ass philly bashing comercial down here for jack in the box's "philly cheesesteak" what a disgrace.

Bryan B, you can keep that lake-effect snow ALL to yourself in the Great White Northwest. Down here in tropical southeast MI, the big snows have nicely avoided us. This cold weather however, has started to wear on me.

All of us in the snowbelt feel for our friends that are getting pounded by this massive storm! Don't make big plans to get in any quality outdoor running for a while. Do what you can and don't get hurt doing it.

stuck in Teaneck wrote:

hey Doug - those long treadmill runs are brutal, but it does beat trying to slog it out through the slop. Which is exactly what I will be doing up here tomorrow because I have no treadmill.

Hey Stuck in Teaneck,

head up to Campmor, get some XC ski's if you don't already have some, and hit the Ridgewood bike path before they plow it. Now that they connected Saddle Brook and the north end, you can do mucho miles. Enjoy!

I've got the day off as most of the state of NJ is closed down. 20" of snow or something like that. I hammered for the three days before the storm b/c I knew I wouldn't be able to do any quality work. Today, I'm just gonna go out and trudge around in this stuff for the aerobic and high-knee exercise benefit. Maybe lift some weights.

The crappy part starts tomorrow when it turns to slush, that's the Jersey curse.