avondale
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This leads into my ATTQOTD: it's not the cold, it's the ice. I wear microspikes, which help for a lot of situations, but not when it's a skating rink. In the DC area, we had a "perfect" situation in my area on Sunday: rain and then sleet and then heavy wet snow (only an inch or so) that lasted until around dinner time, then the temperatures plummeted well below freezing. My husband dutifully went out in the dark after dinner and cleared the sidewalks and driveway before everything froze, but most people in the area didn't. The next morning, things were just frozen solid, and we're going to be below freezing until maybe Friday.Hopefully the streets are void of ice before too long. I can take the temps but really dislike falling on my head
So...this is a problem. I was expecting to go out in the extreme cold this week, but I won't go on the ice. We are getting some Sun in the daytime, so I'm hoping that on Thursday I might be able to manage something on neighborhood sidewalks in my microspikes.
In terms of heat...the nice thing about trail running is that most trails around me have a lot of shade. I think the warmest I did this past crazy summer was a heat index of 106 F. Very slow. Honestly, I'm not sure that hot and slow is really helping my fitness, but it's better than the treadmill.
In the summer my "no go" is an active storm with lightning and/or flash floods (down side of trail running).