Cross Training in a Blizzard

 Clearly the past few weeks in Boston have been challenging for everyone. And no one wants to talk more about snow.

But for runners, training for Boston has been a very particular challenge. The sidewalks have presented something of an obstacle course - leaping over mounds of snow at corners, gliding/sliding across icy patches and goose stepping through knee high snow to get to better footing.

All of that seemed simple after the "Valentine's Day Blizzard" last weekend. I took Friday off to run 14 miles in 6 degree weather, feeling like this was my best option of weather for the three days available.

By the time the storm cleared out on Sunday, I was feeling itchy to get out and about so I hit the streets with the kids to do some hilly cross training (one of the 'perks' of living where we do - every run finishes with steep hill climb.)

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Note that before we made it to the top, we dumped the extra 20lbs of snow the kids thought would be fun to add into the sled.