DREADING a run!

As you may have gathered. . .   . I'm obsessed with running.  I eat, sleep and breath running.  I love it.  I live it!  But once in a while I do dread running.  Lately, it's been a little more often.

Here is why:

You see that?  a little bit of wind and a LOT a bit of cold right when we'll be running tomorrow.

All the neat running gear, warm gloves, cool hats, trax on your shoes and cute outfits in the world can't make a run in negative temps fun.  Especially 18 miles of that.  I'm not going to lie. . . .I'm down right dreading our run tomorrow.  The only thing that I'm looking forward to is being done on Friday and not having to do it on Saturday.  I'm going to sleep in (aka 6am) and then drink my hot coffee and relax on Saturday morning.  I'm not going anywhere or doing anything.  That's the lazy side of me talking.  My lil sis & her baby Otto are coming for a visit. . . so we can stay inside and relax and watch crap tv all weekend.  I hope she doesn't mind!

Angie and I are very dedicated people.  When we decide on a goal, we both work so hard to reach that goal.  When we have a race scheduled and a training plan in place, we stick to it as close as possible.  It's quite rare that we would cut a couple miles off of a long run, or skip speed work, or miss cross training.  We are very goal oriented people (with the exception of keeping up with ab workouts for me!) and we have very high expectations of ourselves.  I will say though, that this weather is pushing my "I don't give a damn" feelings to the surface.  I'm so glad to have the Best Running Buddy ever to hold me accountable and suffer through the cold miles with me.  This awful cold winter should make spring and early summer running so easy.  At least, that is our hope.

Have you been good about sticking to your workout goals despite this record cold winter?  How do you stay motivated when there are so many great excuses to skip?

Happy (despite being cold) Running!
~Brooke~