Run #2 Coldest Ever

Distance:  1.18 miles
Time: 13:45

Location:  Yucca Loma to Rio Vista

With Christmas officially over, I set out tonight on my second of 36 runs to prepare for the Encinitas Mile.  My last run, Tuesday, was a slow mile plagued by sickness.  Tonight I felt 100% better, though I'm still slow and out of shape.  My plan was to run 1.2 miles, so I added a little distance by running up to Yucca Loma and taking it west towards Rio Vista, then I followed the same way back from Tuesday's run.  Christmas lights were still ablaze everywhere I turned.  But the one thing that set tonight's run apart was really the weather.  Previously, the coldest weather I'd ever run in was 39°.  That run was actually earlier this year, on February 1st.  But tonight it was an even brisker 37° when I set out!  And since this training regimen will take me completely through January and February, the likelihood that that record will be broken is pretty high.  Last winter was unusually warm.  It was usually in the 40s and 50s when I set out on night runs.  Normally up here in the high desert it dips down into the 20s for a good chunk of the winter, and this winter so far looks to be back to normal.  So I better get used to it!