TOTR: Favorite and Least Favorite Things About Spring Running

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Today’s TOTR Topic is: Favorite and Least Favorite Things About Spring Running:

I am a fair weather runner so obviously I do not enjoy running in snow, sleet, freezing rain, etc. In other words, not in the winter!!

Favorite Things:

Dry Places to Run

With all my running paths free from snow and ice, I can vary where I run.

Corning Bike Path

Zim Smith Bike Path

Pretty Scenery (Trees, Flowers, Green Grass…)

No More Tights, Capris, Gloves and Jackets (Yes to Tanks and Skirts…)

Abundance of Races to Choose From

: 4/30 – 10k

: 2016 – 28:24

Least Favorite Things:

I almost wrote here: NOTHING! But if I have to add something, it’s:

Rain

Missing My Running Groups Due to Work Schedule

I signed up for the 10 week Freihofer Training Challenge and I can only go to 4 Mondays. I had to decline from mentoring the STEM runners as well as the GOTR program.

missing the STEM runners

Races Scheduled on the Same Weekend

First world problem, I know.

Happy Running! What do you like or dislike about spring? Please share.?

11 thoughts on “TOTR: Favorite and Least Favorite Things About Spring Running”

If we actually had a spring . . . yes, I am missing running in a skirt. I only do it on the treadmill right now.

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Darlene | April 17, 2018 at 4:42 pm

Yes. If we had spring. It’s snowing where I am now.

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- Chocolaterunsjudy | April 18, 2018 at 9:36 am
  
  It didn’t snow to stick yesterday, but it rained, some snow blew around (exactly when I had to take Lola to the vet, of course). You’re definitely not missing much here.
  
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  - Darlene | April 19, 2018 at 10:48 am
    
    I’m back and not much has changed. This weather has made me feel like taking a running break (until spring.)
    
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Races scheduled on the same day – yes, that’s what happens here in April. You can pretty much pick from 3 or 4 races every weekend…and then, nothing.

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Darlene | April 17, 2018 at 6:39 pm

It’s like that in April and then again in Sept.

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I’ll tell you what I don’t like about spring running–the weather can change in the blink of an eye! I ran an April race in Chicago a few years ago. It was 65 at the start. Then the wind shifted off Lake Michigan and the temperature dropped to the 40s. We were freezing at the finish!

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