Life's little adventures, accompanied by a running watch

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Winter running sights

Usually, I see very few others on a long winter run.  Aside from other runners or ice fishers, it’s usually pretty quiet on my long runs.  Today, there were a few runners and one man walking a dog.  The rest?  Tons of people on their roof tops or on ladders, working hard to clear the feet of snow from their roof tops.  Seemed like every other roof was being attended to.  Yikes.


This isn’t your ordinary winter here in New England.  Not a sprint.  Not even a marathon.  More like an ultra.  (Doesn’t everything always go back to running??)  This roof shoveling/clearing is legit.  Roof collapses are occurring daily.  More snow is falling as I type…


In addition to the roof efforts, all other sights continued to be snow related today.  Many were preparing their properties for more snow or widening their driveways or breaking down the snowbanks that make backing out of one’s driveway impossible.  And with all of this activity came comments from the peanut gallery, “Go faster!” or other goofy comments. 

Rounding out a 16 mile run, I was tired.  A rough night last night (felt sick) left me more tired than usual.  Then add a bunch of cold and hilly miles.  At approximately mile 14, I waved to some people working on a roof.  One of them waved as well and yelled, “Hey, how’s it going?”  So I replied, “Having just as much fun as you are!”.  OK, maybe I’m not as funny as I think.  But truthfully, running is much more fun than cleaning off a roof. 

I am kind of biased.


6 comments:

  1. Hope you're feeling better:( It was actually a nice day for a run, I wondered if you had. stay safe out there.

    Love you!

    ~ Mama

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  2. As an italian living in a place where the weather (more or less) is always good I cannot imagine how running with all that snow is possible. However I confess I would like to try....

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    1. I can tell you that it's a different world....especially this epic winter! Enjoy that good weather!

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  3. I'm so impressed that you get out there and run that far with all that snow!!! So weird to think of having to shovel your roof - sort of scary actually!!!

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    1. Thanks Kim. Guess it's what you get used to. I'm SO over it frankly!!!

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