Finally - A Winter Run
In Cleveland, no one is talking about Global Warming any more. Nope. Winter is back and its here with a vegenance.On Tuesday morning the Lake Erie “Snow Machine” turned on.
And it was a day more fit to be one of these cute little guys …
<p align=”center”><a href=”http://www.learnedfoot.goellnitz.org/photos/Penguins.JPG”><img width=”300″ alt=”Penguins” title=”Penguins” src=”http://www.learnedfoot.goellnitz.org/photos/Penguins.JPG” /></a></p>
<p align=”left”>… instead of a runner.</p>
<p align=”left”>But we Cleveland, Ohio runners are made of sterner stuff. A little bit of snow and cold can only make us stronger, right?!?</p>
<p align=”left”>This is the scene that greeted me on Friday morning …</p>
<p align=”center”><a href=”http://www.learnedfoot.goellnitz.org/photos/view1.JPG”><img width=”300″ alt=”Winter” title=”Winter” src=”http://www.learnedfoot.goellnitz.org/photos/view1.JPG” /></a> <a href=”http://www.learnedfoot.goellnitz.org/photos/view2.JPG”><img width=”300″ alt=”winter 2″ title=”winter 2″ src=”http://www.learnedfoot.goellnitz.org/photos/view2.JPG” /></a>
Just lovely, eh? It was 25 degrees. Wind chill of 8. I don’t care where you live, that’s cold. (Unless you are an Emperor Penguin. Or an Alaskan. Or a Husky.)
Of course, extreme conditions call for extreme measures. That’s why I broke out my running snow tires.
</p><p align=”center”><a href=”http://www.learnedfoot.goellnitz.org/photos/snowtires.JPG”><img width=”300″ alt=”stabilicers” title=”stabilicers” src=”http://www.learnedfoot.goellnitz.org/photos/snowtires.JPG” /></a></p>
Stabilicers. Snow chains for the feet. (No, I didn’t run in shorts. When I turned on the Weather Channel and saw just exactly how cold it was, I beat a hasty retreat for more sensible wind pants.)
These babies worked awesome by the way. No more fear of slipping. But they are a bit heavy and do go click, clack when you run over dry pavement. A small price to pay for good traction.
The run featured white out conditions typical of Lake Effect snow. Lake Effect is weird. It comes in bands. One minute its white out (I had several of those on my run), the next minute the sun can be out and shining. This is what it looked like when I was done:
<p align=”center”><a href=”http://www.learnedfoot.goellnitz.org/photos/view3.JPG”><img width=”300″ src=”http://www.learnedfoot.goellnitz.org/photos/view3.JPG” /></a></p>
And this is what I looked like:
<p align=”center”><a href=”http://www.learnedfoot.goellnitz.org/photos/IceWatch.JPG”><img width=”300″ src=”http://www.learnedfoot.goellnitz.org/photos/IceWatch.JPG” /></a> <a href=”http://www.learnedfoot.goellnitz.org/photos/SnowyJenny.JPG”><img width=”300″ src=”http://www.learnedfoot.goellnitz.org/photos/SnowyJenny.JPG” /></a>
Hope you enjoyed this virtual winter run!</p>
Tags: Cleveland, cold, Running, snow, winter