Sunday, November 30, 2014

What Happened Today at Mile 4

I am a bit obsessive about the weather. I think when you run outside in the winter you kind of have to be.

However, unfair = when the weather does something that your iPhone or local meteorologist did not warn you about. If anyone lives in the Denver area and ran this morning you know what I mean.

I have lived in Colorado for 20 years. I know the weather changes quickly and drastically. We have a saying here that is so overused I roll my eyes every time I hear it: “If you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes.”

I am usually pretty damn prepared. But, this morning? What the f&ck with the f&cking fast temperature drop? F&ck!

Ken and I started out on an innocent 6 mile trail run. The temperature was 58 degrees and sunny. Little wind. I wore shorts and a t-shirt, so did he.

I knew the weather was going to cool off later in the day – into the 30s by 3pm. NBD. By that time I’d be lying on the couch under a blanket.

We hit the turn around point at three miles of climbing. The wind was starting to pick up, but it was still sunny. I felt kind of cold, but nothing worth bitching about.

Mile 4. It all changed. I could feel the air turn from cool to freezing. I knew we only had a couple of miles to go, all downhill, which on trails can take a bit.  The wind picked up even more. The freezing air became arctic. My exposed head, arms and hands HURT. Like, really HURT.

We kept descending into the extreme wind. I am not a pussy when I run. I try not to complain. But by the time we had 1.5 miles to go I was on the verge of a breakdown.

I momentarily stopped to see if I could somehow shelter my arms and hands for a minute. Ken came up behind me and said, “Don’t stop. We have to keep moving. Just GO!”  By all the drama involved you would have thought we were caught in a burning building and only had 2 minutes to get out.

I swear that last mile we descended 800 feet in about 8 minutes. I was hopping over roots and rocks like my life depended on it. It was brutal.

We jumped in the car cussing, rocking back and forth, carrying on. These are the times that make you closer as a couple –> NOT. I looked at the temperature:

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What the hell had happened in an hour? We went from 58 degrees to 22 degrees. Wind chill was probably –100.

Yes, today I learned some lessons.

1. Saying “f&ck” while you run does not make you any less cold.

2. This is not an outfit for 22 degree weather.

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3. When it is that cold and you are that desperate you couldn’t give a crap if your nose is running.

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4. It does not help to try to put your entire hands and arms into your shirt while running downhill. That, in fact, is a recipe for disaster.

5. Carry arm warmers and gloves and a down coat and a space heater and a stove and cup ‘0 noodles…just in case.

Ever been ULTRA unprepared for the weather on a run?

SUAR

88 comments:

  1. WOW that sounds like total misery. There are not enough F bombs in the world for that.

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  2. Crazy brutal! I have not experienced anything that extreme. My husband and I ran yesterday in -14F. That was cold, but we were dressed for it. Not my favourite. My eyelashes were freezing, nose running uncontrollably, and my water froze shut. Today I am choosing to run on my treadmill. I'm jealous you can still run in shorts.

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  3. Yes I have been, I went trail running through the Wasatch mountains and it went from sunny to snowing/hailing within thirty minutes and I was three miles into my ten mile run it was freezing!

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  4. We have that saying in Chicago too. I have never been ULTRA unprepared, but I've been caught by surprise by pop up thunderstorms! I had to call my husband once for a rescue pick up in the middle of one that came out of nowhere. LIghtning scares me!

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    1. I thought the saying in Chicago was; We have to two seasons construction and winter.

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  5. Also hit it this AM. It dropped 30 degrees from 8:45 to 9:30. Good stuff. Made for a nice inversion up high though ... http://georgezack.blogspot.com/2014/11/sunday-113014-jvs-1000th-ascent-of-green.html ... it was actually warmer up at 8000 plus feet than it was at 5500 feet.

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  6. That's crazy! I haven't ever been ultra unprepared or caught in rapidly changing weather while running.

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  7. Once again, Beth, I find myself uncontrollably laughing from your post. Not because I take pleasure in your misery, but from the imagery created by your words. And the 'Dumb & Dumber' snot shot is classic. Hope you were able to warm up with a nice Starbucks coffee.
    I've been caught in my share of torrential downpours, lightening storms, and some runs so hot that I contemplated asking random landscapers for a swig of whatever was stored in their Gatorade coolers.

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  8. Last week I went out and it was 39 degrees and overcast, light mist sort of stuff. Virtual summer for MN. Capri's, long sleeve & light top layer. It began to downpour and the wind picked up and I've never been so cold in my life. I'm used to running when it is 0 out, so I don't consider myself a pussy. Weather websites said there was a 10% chance of rain so I figured the drizzle mist would stay drizzle mist. Lying bastards. My husband got home and found me naked with a pile of inside out clothes (soaked, couldn't get them off!) in front of the wood stove.

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  9. I ran too, in shorts and t-shirt, at Mt Falcon near Denver. When I was at the top, I looked over the city and saw the clouds rolling in fast and knew I had to HTFU, or down, as the case may be. Crazy. I just beat it to my truck.
    You know, of course, you would have been fine if you'd got your butt out of bed earlier :)

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  10. I experienced the same thing this morning! I am a CO native and haven't felt the air change so rapidly - ever. I was out for a 8 mile trail run this morning near Devils Backbone - just north of you. We left the cars at 7 a.m. very jolly and loving the balmy almost 60 degrees. I didn't wear gloves but did have a hat, light jacket and running tights. It was bizarre how quickly the air temp dropped - just a couple of minutes. I felt like I passed through a doorway and into another place.

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  11. Whoa, that's crazy! I suppose the worst that's happened to me was torrential rains out of what used to be bright blue skies, but I don't think anyone ever drowned running in the rain, so that's not really such a big deal.

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  12. When you run the Grand Canyon, you start out at the top at 32 degrees (if you go in November), it hits 80 in the bottom and then there's snow on the north rim as you climb out...so yeah...be prepared for anything. (I was a girl scout!) :-)

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    1. Yep...but at least you kinda know what to expect so there aren't surprises!!

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  13. I was running at the same time and it was FREEZING, my skin was purple.

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  14. I was on the phone telling my sister today how my daughter desperately needed winter clothes, that I was tired of seeing her in her daisy dukes and tanks. I was on my way home from buying her a bunch of warm clothes. So then she asked me what the temperature was and I looked down and was embarrassed to say..."80". Lol. I guess I'm an Arizona girl for sure. :) Your weather sounds crazy...but love the visual snot pic.

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  15. It was maybe a little cooler that 22 when we started on sunday, maybe 18... after 2 hours of running it was in the 30's and climbing... Oh i'm talking Celsius! it got really hot and we needed more water!

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  16. Oh Beth, this brought me back to my days of living in Colorado! I remember this!! How the weather can turn so suddenly! There were times like this that I can remember from high school cross country when we'd leave after school on a run thinking everything was perfectly fine and come back to snow flurries and freezing temps! weird! At least in Bend, we are prepared and it doesn't seem to change like this....at least so far!

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  17. I did not realize CO weather changed so drastically! I have never experienced something like that. If anything, it has warmed UP on a run for me. Which can also be uncomfortable, but I would sooo much rather be too hot than too cold. In any situation- not just running!

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  18. I ran in Evergreen yesterday before the weather change. I was not prepared for the cold as my phone said 45 degrees... On the trail in the shade of the trees was cold, but tolerable. Luckily when we finished it was still tolerable. On the way home I stopped at the store and coming out was like I walked onto another planet. How does weather change that flipping fast? I was happy, however, that I was all done running for the day :).

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  19. That is insane. Just insane. I have family in CO and have visited a few times but never heard of that. I think I would have gone from F%$# to something much worse.

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  20. I had the exact same experience in Littleton Sunday morning. 9:15, amazing weather! Took off my long sleeve top layer and ran and sweated in my short sleeve and capri tights as my friend and her family were driving home from MT in sub-zero temps and icy roads. I may have been gloating a bit at the amazing weather. At my 30 minute turnaround, the arctic air hit me slam in the face. I thought my ears were going to fall off. I dropped as many F-bombs as you, probably. It was a pretty fast (for me) run back to my car. Jeez. Love our weather here!

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  21. Oh that day was SO COLD. I couldn't believe how fast it crashed! Crazy.

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  22. Luckily, by the time we hit the trails in Boulder, it was already 22 degrees and so I layered like a boss. Our husbands who ran in Eldorado Canyon earlier, however, got hosed. It was INSANE. I would say that maybe it's good you had that experience on a training run so you knew you could handle it in a race, but let's face it: if that happens in a race, we're quitting.

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