Workout: 3.7 easy miles - random mileage, I know.
My niece, Grace, is in town from southwest Florida for Christmas break. My kids are obsessed with her, and so I pretty much made her come stay the night at my house for one night. Grace is a runner so when she packed her bag to come stay with me I told her to bring her running shoes. I wanted to take her out on a winter run! Plus, she had just got the Garmin Forerunner 10 for Christmas and I thought this would be the perfect time to give her a little tutorial on how to use it.
All I can say is, poor Grace! Poor, poor, Grace!! Here is how the morning started for the girl:
Me: Here, Grace, throw this on for your base layer.
Grace: What's a base layer?
LOL!!!! I was dying!!! I know she lives in a land where the "cold" temps are around 45-50....and even that isn't too often. But, I seriously can not even imagine not worrying about layers for running! This made me chuckle for quite some time. It took some work not to drown the poor child in my clothes (I was trying to dress a 90 lb frame - um yeah, we aren't exactly the same size), but eventually we got out the door. I think the first 10 seconds were decent, but then the temp registered with her body. After that the only words I heard were, "This is HORRIBLE!". I was laughing the whole way! I will be honest. It was pretty miserable. The temperature that morning was 1. Yep, 1 little measly degree!! I mean, that is super unpleasant running for anyone. Not just Floridians. But I just kept talking to her, tried to keep her mind off the weather, and tried to motivate her to just hang in there.
Yeah!!! We did it!! She almost turned around at one point, but then quickly changed her mind. It didn't take us too long to thaw out;).
And I know she is going to love her new Garmin! Such a fun little gadget to have. Here is our 1 degree run:
My niece, Grace, is in town from southwest Florida for Christmas break. My kids are obsessed with her, and so I pretty much made her come stay the night at my house for one night. Grace is a runner so when she packed her bag to come stay with me I told her to bring her running shoes. I wanted to take her out on a winter run! Plus, she had just got the Garmin Forerunner 10 for Christmas and I thought this would be the perfect time to give her a little tutorial on how to use it.
All I can say is, poor Grace! Poor, poor, Grace!! Here is how the morning started for the girl:
Me: Here, Grace, throw this on for your base layer.
Grace: What's a base layer?
LOL!!!! I was dying!!! I know she lives in a land where the "cold" temps are around 45-50....and even that isn't too often. But, I seriously can not even imagine not worrying about layers for running! This made me chuckle for quite some time. It took some work not to drown the poor child in my clothes (I was trying to dress a 90 lb frame - um yeah, we aren't exactly the same size), but eventually we got out the door. I think the first 10 seconds were decent, but then the temp registered with her body. After that the only words I heard were, "This is HORRIBLE!". I was laughing the whole way! I will be honest. It was pretty miserable. The temperature that morning was 1. Yep, 1 little measly degree!! I mean, that is super unpleasant running for anyone. Not just Floridians. But I just kept talking to her, tried to keep her mind off the weather, and tried to motivate her to just hang in there.
Yeah!!! We did it!! She almost turned around at one point, but then quickly changed her mind. It didn't take us too long to thaw out;).
And I know she is going to love her new Garmin! Such a fun little gadget to have. Here is our 1 degree run:
At least she doesn't have to run in the cold for a couple more months like I do. Lucky duck!!
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