The Holiday Season and Winter Running

The Holiday season brings people together from all over the place, to see each other, exchange holiday cheer, and of course...eat. I have eaten so much over the last few weeks, it is amazing. I had parties at work (2 just for the same 10 people in my office, because one wasn't enough!). Parties with people I used to work with at Brown. Parties with friends and meals with family, and because we are so spread out, multiple meals with different people, which will probably continue for the next month. Not to mention the Anniversary Extravaganza (5 years strong this year), which also entailed a great deal of eating. So of course I gained the inevitable holiday weight, 7 lbs. However, unlike previous years, I lost 5 of it over the last week, just from running! Winter running however. I am not a big fan of winter running. Since Mother Nature blessed us with a foot of snow a few weeks ago, it has been slow melt. And every time it melts, it freezes again, creating ice. This doesn't create the most ideal running conditions, but the attached photo is from a 9 mile run from this morning, which really was a beautiful except for the ice and snow that we had to run over once and a while!