Susan Donnelly Ultramarathon Trail Runner. Motivational Speaker. http://www.susanruns100s.com
The Winter Blahs Date : February 17, 2010
Mr. Snowman on my grandmother's old birdbath.
This winter is remarkably cold, remarkably snowy and lately – oppressively dark and gloomy. With a string of warm winters here in east Tennessee, this one’s been hard to accept, much less cope with. The bravado of December evaporated immediately after New Year’s. The last threads cold weather denial unravelled when the calendar flipped to February and every day still looked like the last twenty: low grey clouds and highs below freezing. Even the novelty of the snow wore off this week (okay, it’s still pretty when falling and in the occasional beam of sunshine). On top of that, mid-January to mid-February is usually the toughest time of the year for me to summon the minimum motivation to run. It happens every year, warm years or cold, so on the
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