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I have to get up and run today. Otherwise, today would be 3 days without any significant workouts. Or not. You'll decide based on what you read below.
Friday, I squeezed in a mile run. Because although I was so busy, I didn't want to not make my weekly mileage goal and I was just a mile off. So I ran 1.2 miles just to keep the Runkeeper app hAPPy!
No workouts on Saturday morning because I observe the Sabbath (I'm Seventh-day Adventist) and Saturday mornings are for church and religious activities. When I got home after sunset, it was so cold, and what started as a drizzle became some serious snow-flurries-storm. It was pretty to watch through the window but I couldn't envision myself running in it. Although I did keep myself pretty busy SURFing the 'net and reading blogs
I had planned to go to Brooklyn to visit my friend's church on Sunday morning but my plan was to get up really early and squeeze in a short run before I had to go. I woke up to a cold apartment, temperatures of 24 degrees F (minus 5 degrees C) and I just turned the alarm off and snuggled up in bed. I know I can't keep doing this because it is still just November and if I am going to keep running during winter, cold weather comes with the territory (cold weather IS the territory) but that didn't really permeate my consciousness then. But I figured I burned lots of calories in the mad dashes to and from places of shelter. Like my sprint across 125th Street and Lenox Avenue at 8:30 a..m. to catch the light before it changed. If there had been an Olympic judge standing around with his stopwatch, I just might have been named an official challenger for Usain Bolt's record. 
Sunday afternoon, I returned for a pre-Thanksgiving dinner at my church and then home to watch my NY Giants lose a home game against the Cowboys. 
That broke my heart but it was repaired later with Manning-Brady-14, where Peyton's Broncos scored 24 unanswered first-half points followed by Tom Brady's Patriots scoring 24 unanswered second-half points. I figured the quick flip-flopping of my heart, alternately loving Brady, then Peyton, then Brady again, I figured that was enough of a metabolism booster and workout for anyone. And since the game went to overtime, that was like one of those endurance-building Sunday long runs. haha.
Cut to today. Monday morning. It's just as cold as it was yesterday. But I am going to do it.
 I have to do it.
Must. Run. Today.... Will. Run. Today.
Going to layer up. Talk to you later. 
Layer. Later. 





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