running: the dawn

I am so excited that its snowing!

I’m even more excited that its December.  This is my favorite month of the entire year.  Interestingly it has nothing to do with the holidays.  I met my Mr. Dawn on December 24, 2005.  We got married on December 30, 2007.  I love snow and usually get to enjoy it more during December while on winter break.  I love snowboarding which always happens in December.  I love going home and spending time with family.  I love that all my friends from high school still all come home for the holidays and I get to see their precious families.  December is the BEST!

It started snowing sometime last night and there was a light dusting everywhere on my way to work this morning.  It got more and more serious and by noon everything was covered by a blanket of white.  I’m pretty sure that I am wired wrong because this kind of weather beckons to me like 70 degrees and blue skies calls to most normal people.  I couldn’t wait to get home, change into my running gear and get out on the roads.  I emailed my winter running buddy KT just to see if she might be game for a mid afternoon run and she was!  We ran to the track, since I had some light speedwork on the agenda…but it was covered in snow and we couldn’t even find where the track was, so we decided to make it a nice easy 5 miles.  We looped around some of our favorite routes from last winter and agreed that we both LOVE running in the winter.  There’s something blissfully challenging and exhilaratingly peaceful about it.

More hard evidence that I’ve got my wires crossed?  Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, the highs were in the mid 40′s.  I ran on my treadmill.  Today?  High of 25, 3+ inches of snow still falling, and I have to run outside.  I’m pretty sure that I need to get that checked out…