Frozen Solid / PLUS! Giveaway Winner

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Solid chocolate lungs would definitely been an improvement over the frozen solid lungs I had after my long run on Saturday afternoon. I did 8.5 miles outside where the air temperature was hovering around 28^oF. I've certainly run in colder, but for some reason Saturday's run left me coughing and hacking for most of the rest of the afternoon.

I wore a tank top, two long sleeved tech shirts, tights, shorts and mittens. I got a little warm but never warm enough to push up my sleeves or take off my mittens. Because I never rolled up my sleeves, I couldn't see my Garmin for the entire run. Since I was pretty much running blind it was a good exercise in trying to pace myself. I have to say, I think I did pretty well. Not perfect and, of course, some of the times are thrown off my waiting for stop lights, but overall I was fairly consistent. During mile 8, however, I hit some sort of strange disconnect where my legs were moving but I wasn't even aware of it. It felt GREAT! Now, if I could just figure out how to harness that feeling for the entire run.

The sidewalks were mostly clear although there were a few icy spots where I had to tread lightly or veer off into the street. I saw lots of people out walking their dogs but I only saw one other runner. That may have been because I ran in the afternoon instead of in the morning. Why the afternoon? Because earlier in the day I hit the gym for 45 minutes of strength training! So, yes, 45 minutes of weights and an 8.5 mile run in the same day. Pretty awesome.

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But enough about that. On to what you're really here for. To find out if you won the Infinity Scarf Giveaway! We're pretty low tech over at Eri-thon industries so instead of using an online random number generator I just drew names out of a hat.

This hat, to be precise:




See? There are all your names (if you linked to my post in your blog and told me about it your name is in there twice, I promise!).




So which lucky person had their name drawn? Well, the winner is: Kelly!! Turns out, her birthday was also last week so this is sort of a belated birthday gift as well. Kelly, I'll be in touch!

Thanks for everyone for commenting!

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Saturday's Stats

Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 626 ft Location: Forest Park, IL Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 01/16/10 Up/Downhill: [+52/-52] Time: 01:32 PM Difficulty: 3.0 / 5.0   Weather: Overcast with Haze   28 F temp; 81% humidity   28 F heat index; winds SW 6 Performance Distance: 8.52 miles Time: 1:22:06 Speed: 6.2 mph Pace: 9' 38 /mi Calories: 1010 Map   Elevation (ft)   Pace (min/mile)   Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Elevation Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 9' 33 -0' 05 6.3 +0.1 +3 ft 2 11' 44 +2' 06 5.1 -1.1 +6 ft 3 9' 31 -0' 07 6.3 +0.1 0 ft 4 9' 22 -0' 16 6.4 +0.2 -6 ft 5 9' 47 +0' 09 6.1 -0.1 +7 ft 6 9' 40 +0' 02 6.2 -0.0 0 ft 7 10' 36 +0' 58 5.7 -0.6 0 ft 8 9' 18 -0' 20 6.5 +0.2 -9 ft end 9' 52 +0' 14 6.1 -0.1 0 ft Versus average of 9' 38 min/mile

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