Dirty Ugly Snow…..

Looking back, and if there were time in my life to plan anything, we should have begun running in the Spring or Summer. As it was a fairly spontaneous thing, which I honestly didn’t think would last, it turned out we began in the Fall. As winter progressed we had to run on bigger and busier roads as the ice took hold of the smaller ones. We had to pick our times to run avoiding, snowstorms and the very coldest days. That being said having run through a variety of winter weather, I came to enjoy and appreciate different scenery. One day we were out on a run, we were running on the bigger roads. We were having to run on the edge of the road due to the quantity of snow on the bit at the side. It was freezing. We were running later than planned so it was getting dark and dreary. I looked around and India was running ahead of me, which is her favourite position, I had my music on, the cars were zipping by, the scenery was gloomy at best, and the snow was really ice and it was dirty and very very ugly. People driving past were giving us the ‘You really are crazy look‘. It was then that I thought to myself, ‘I love this’. I yelled to India ‘I love this’!. She laughed at me and said ‘Mom!“ I couldn’t believe that despite the ugliness, slippery wet roads, cars passing far too close, and achy legs, I was actually enjoying myself. How bizarre, at what point did I get hooked I wonder????