So last saturday, the Twin Cities experienced a snow storm. Most people used this as a reason to curl up on the couch with a good book. Me, I decided to get up way to early, drive over an hour, run 5 miles, stand around for an hour freezing my butt off and then drive home.
Crazy? pretty much.
The good news: I did the race in just over 53 minutes! Official time: 53:14! Pretty awesome and the fastest I've ever run 5 miles! I'd imagine the weather had something to do with it.
The bad: It was pretty miserable. All the snow and slush filled my shoes with water. The snow was blowing horizontally at times and I would have to pull my hat down over the side of the face getting plastered with the icy blast. My running buddy Amber had this wonderfully zen moment during the run, I had no such zen moments. It was an incredible mental challenge but at least I didn't cave to the voices telling me to walk or to quit!
The risks of signing up for a race in November. I will definitely be investing in some neoprene socks if this winter running will continue!
In other news, I finally put my insurance to good use and went to the dermatologist! Of course I was chided for not keeping up with my check ups but really, what can you do when you don't have insurance? Everything looked ok, I found out the area outside my scar that looked like pigment was actually just really clogged pores/blackheads that weren't going away. That was a huge relief! I did wind up getting another mole removed/biopsied. It was really close to the excision site of the melanoma mole that she wanted to be careful. So as of now, I have another hole in my chest but it'll only become a small scar as it didn't require stitches. It's just occasionally itchy and sore. A nuisance more than anything, but for piece of mind, worth it! I'll find out results in 1-2 weeks.
Current weight: 135.6!!! at least according to my home scale. It's said 133 a couple times but I think those were flukes having to do more with dehydration/ time of day than anything. But I'm still moving in the right direction!
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