Looking forward to this Winter "Heat Wave" approaching

     Ohhhh hello winter and cold air….tending to want to forget what cold air will do to ones lungs is something I believe I purposely forget. (I’m sorry but I’m not a fan of WINTER….after Christmas and snow at that time period…I’m over it…bring on Spring, Fall, and Summer)  I made a few excuses as to reasons not to run a few days the wind was blowing and it was FREEZING (at least compared to my cozy warm house)….so I finally kicked myself out of the house on Saturday to get this running thing back in cycle with a 5 mile run….it wasn’t even that cold and I feel like someone stole the wind out of my chest.  I suppose this is that reminder of what a little asthma will do to a person.  I also love what a little bit of a cold/asthma condition etc will do to a competitive person…..

     Call me crazy…but when my “mind control” starts to sneak away and I’m in my daze of just running and random thoughts, I find that I’m talking to myself (hey…that’s normal right?….I probably don’t want to hear your answer)….but I was occasionally telling myself “this cold isn’t a big deal or my lungs feeling the way they do…..I’ll show you”…. How does one literally have an argument with themselves or in this case a cold I mean I hate to admit it but I seriously was talking trash/competitive to a cold?  Is it a competitive battle as to if the cold will win or I’ll conquer it before it gets to me?  Does anyone else go through this?

    Something about running while a little under the weather maybe brings out the weirdest traits or inner voices in you….but then again I don’t have the time to be slacking right now…I already slacked enough to this point to still want to be able to do what I’ve set my mind to do in 2013…..  So hacking or not….Because if this cold knows it or not…I will defeat it J   I just hope those around me will let it slide when I spend the few hours  recovering from the air in my chest and heaviness….if you hear someone hacking/coughing….it’s me…  Looking forward to getting back on a track (seriously)….I get to go home right after work today and take this little husky (who is growing too fast) on a run with me J

 

 

One of my cold weather memories is always the "Mid East Meet" we had in high school in 2000....The event was held in Dayton, OH (Weird I know...I'd forgotten till later in time after I lived there awhile I had this meet there)  I should have remembered HOW COLD IT WAS THEN...before I moved there!   It's as cold as we look :)  This was West Virginia's team that year when we ran against Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, PA, and sadly I can't remember if Kentucky ran that year with us or not  However...I do recall the "Hill" that everyone made such a fuss about on this course....It gave any West Virginia runner a good laugh at (it was a man made hill created by dirt they dug up to make a little pond...and we ran up and over it for the race course)......  At the pre-dinner when other teams were complaining about the hill, we thought we'd warmed up on the wrong course that day.