Sunday, 12/25/2016 to Saturday, 12/31/2016

I ran once (yes, once) this week, 5.05 miles

Sunday, 12/25/2016: Christmas

My darling wife, Christine, wanted to stay home this year for Christmas. Which was good ... because I came down with a head cold that got worse during the day. I wanted to get out for a run but that didn't happen. No one came over and we didn't go out so we spent a quiet Christmas in our townhouse.

Christmas cookies from my daughter, Karen

Our Christmas breakfast of French toast, scrambled eggs and ham

Our Christmas dinner of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and salad

Christine made it her mission to feed my cold with food and then drown it with juices. I woke up about six times between going to sleep and waking up so I could go to the bathroom and/or blow my nose.

Christine and I sporting our new hats (with small zippered pockets on each side) and eyeglasses 

Monday, 12/26/2016: Sick day.

My head cold got worse. I blew my nose, sneezed and blew my nose some more ... joy. I did pass some time by watching YouTube on the smart TV in the master bedroom. I started with Star Wars commercials (YouTube link here), then made it to Darth Vader shorts (like Darth Vader in Love, YouTube link here and Darth Vader Gets Arrested, YouTube link here) and then some Star Wars fan films. The "Darth Maul: Apprentice" was truly great!

New alert! I went to bed at 7 PM and slept until 6 AM for a solid 11 hours of sleep. I felt like crap so I just decided to go to bed.

Tuesday, 12/27/2016: Another sick day

I did make it outside to take a Netflix DVD to the mailbox on Greenleaf Rd on Tuesday. It was a slow news day ... then the Bills owner fired the coach, Rex Ryan and his twin brother, Rob.

Later, I whined enough to convince my darling wife, Christine, to head out before I went to bed for ice cream and cold medicine. My throat was raw. A cold milk shake felt good before I tried to get any sleep that I could get before I went to work in the morning.

Wednesday, 12/28/2016 through Friday, 12/30/2016: Three more sick days

I made it to work and back on Wednesday and Thursday with a vacation day on Friday. I was slowly getting better. This cold didn't knock me off my feet but sure slowed me down. I haven't "given" it to Christine ... yet. But I may weaken and give it to her soon.

Saturday, 12/31/2016: 5.05 miles, 43:56, 8:42 pace, 30F, 64% RH, 9 mph S wind, wind chill 22F, partly cloudy.


I needed to get one more run in before the end of 2016. I wasn't 100% but I felt a bit better. I went out on the LOSP trail for 2.5 miles and back. I wore my blue Salamon SpeedCross 3 trail shoes just in case but there was only 1/2 to 2 inches of snow on parts of the trail. I struck up a really nice and easy pace. While I ran I just thought about the runs of 2016. My splits were: 8:44, 8:35, 8:44, 8:51 and 8:40.

Later, I managed to get close enough to my darling wife, Christine, to "give" her my cold. She'll say that she got it while she was taking care of me, lol! I'm sorry, honey!

Stats for the month of December: I ran 16 times for 107.71 miles, 6.43 miles per run. One was a warmup before Freezeroo #1 of 2 miles, another was a warmup before WTF of 1.1 miles and another was a snowshoe run of 2.15 miles.
I ran two races during December: Freezeroo #1 (5K) and the Winter Trail Festival (WTF) of 15.29 miles.
Stats for 2016: I ran 206 times for 1516.37 miles, 7.36 miles/run. I put on the snowshoes 5 times for 11.1 miles and biked 8 times for 128 miles.