Woohoo, what a great morning! Cloudy and cool, and lots of runners out. I did the usual Sunday run, staying on the low path along the tracks this time, below Spruce Cliff.
The ice must be a couple of feet thick at the one place, and it's wet and mostly sticky. It looks like someone is out there once a day, sprinkling gravel along the edge of the path through the ice. So there is this gravel path that's mostly there, and you can walk on it, and it's not too bad. But in spots, the water has run over top and froze, so it's a little slick.
Worse is that it layers over top, so there is a slope to the ice on one side, too big to step across with stepping on. I just kind of braced myself to slide and went with it. But mostly it's just cold enough that it's not quite slush, so it's more sticky that slick, but you can't trust it to be like that for the whole hundred and fifty metres or so that it covers the path.
Across the other side, and homeward. Nothing special about it, or anything memorable about the run. Just steady and fun and feeling good all the way.
Today's run:
Distance: 16.39 km. Time: 1:29:20. Average speed: 11.0 kph.
Rest distance: 925.3 m. Rest time: 9:00.
Total distance: 17.31 km. Total time: 1:38:20.
Shoes: Saucony Grid Phoenix (Blue).
Weather: Cloudy and stead at -2C.
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