To the summit

Met up with Bryant and did a new out and back route toward Plain City. Rainy.

Midnight run with Ben, weather and traffic was incredible. I kept my eye out for Santa, but never got a glimpse. I think it should be a tradition now to go on midnight Christmas run. Ran up to the canal road, little bit of snow but not too much. Running on cold medicine, I felt great. Later on in the day though after all of the excitement was over, I crashed hard. I slept from about 6pm till 11am the next morning. I am lucky to have an understanding boss who gave me the day off. I hope that taking totally resting will allow me to recovery from whatever I have quicker.

I don't know if my weight reflects being sick or if that is close to normal, but I will pay closer attention from now on. I felt safer up on the canal road, so made my up there and the snow was calf deep. It was good to get my lungs working and work some of the crap out. 

Met up with Bryant this morning at Lee's. Pretty snowy and tried to avoid getting run over by the snowplows. Not too bad of a run though, not many cars out today, maybe a lot of people are sleeping in. Feel like I am 90% over the cold I had this week and am ready to get some faster miles in.

Met up with Bryant and Riley at Smith and Edwards. It was somewhere different and it was flat. 12 degrees for the start this morning. Half hour into it and Bryant's eyelashes and hair was frosted, made for a pretty good pic. Riley commented he looked like the queen lady off of Narnia, it was pretty funny. We all weren't sure how this run was going to go today, but once we got rolling we just fell into a good pace. I was able to hold about 5:47 for 12, I say about 5:47 because Riley's watch is somehow always 2 seconds faster than mine. It was definitely a good feeling after a week of being sick. Ran out around Plain City and right through Blossom, you wouldn't know you were in Blossom without the tiny little sign. Population about 10 people.... On the way back to Smith and Edwards it definitely felt a lot colder. There was quite a bit of fog the last 5 or so miles. 

Average overall pace 6:12