And then there was...SNOW!

Joy here...Okay, I've written about the fact that spring has begin to poke its nose around the corner, but just as I've mentioned about fall in Canada, spring is also a fickle little biotch.  She'll show up one day, flaunt herself in sunlight, teasing you and making you think she's here to stay.  And then the next day you'll feel her cold shoulder as she turns away from you and leaves you all alone.  So if she was here on our Tuesday run, she was definitely gone by Saturday's run.

We woke up Saturday morning planning a long run and looked outside to the dark clouds overhead.  The weather station was promising rain, so we knew that we'd want to be out there sooner rather than later to avoid that rain.  So we bundled ourselves up for the +3 C temperature and out the door we went.

Since my 30km run two weeks ago, I haven't really been running all that consistently.  April is a terribly busy month, and we just haven't clarified any training goals or notions for the next little while.  We've told ourselves that we won't really start "training" (i.e. tempo runs, hill repeats etc.) for our next half marathon (which is only 6 weeks away!!!) until we arrive in Malaysia at the start of May.  So for the past two weeks and for the next two weeks, we'll just keep our running up.

That was Saturday's plan.  And here are our run stats:
Ran for a total of 1:38:44 for a distance of 16.77km with an average pace of 5:53min/km.

I'm happy enough with that.  It means that the distance issue for our upcoming half marathon won't be a problem (I mean, I can easily add another 4kms on in 6 weeks!), and so we'll just have to worry about acclimatizing to the heat and humidity and trying to build in some speed.

But the story today isn't about the run...it's about the WEATHER.  As we finished our 100 minute run, the rain had started, and we were getting uncomfortably cold in the wet.  But then, as we jogged up the front steps to our house, that cold rain turned to snow.  Yep, that's right.  On April 16th it was snowing in Ottawa!

Ugh.

Anyone wanna offer me a job in Hawaii???

Over and out,
Joy

*Note:  Just for the record, after our Tuesday run, I took Wednesday off.  Then on Thursday I had my 1 hour spinning class followed by 1 hour of strength training with our trainer (but no running).  And then I took Friday off.  So this week, I only ran on Tuesday and Saturday...ooopsies.  I really should improve and get out there 3 or 4 times per week, otherwise this half marathon in Singapore is going to HURT and the full marathon in Toronto is going to cause injury!!!