Road run with tea break - Thu. Jan. 18

Recovered from the flight, I thought of a daytime run but was too busy, so it was just freezing evening when I set out. Sleet had fallen and the ground was treacherous, so I had to hobble along in places, and narrowly missed slipping over several times on downhill stretches. Because the winter has been such a lame one there's not even a good grit wash alongside the roads (though the gritting truck did pass me by several times during this run). Headed out past VFW to 202 and along to Allen, up and over to 9, then down Federal to the lake, and left onto Metacomet and thus directly to the House of Dave. I was carrying licorice from Iceland and some Gevalia beans for those guys; not very good at running with stuff in hand, but considering the conditions I made fairly good time. Stopped chez gray-heyes and enjoyed a cup of tea and a chat, then back home via Bay and Hamilton. Had set out planning about 5-6, but ended up a bit longer:

Time: 53:46
Speed: 7.9 mph
Distance: 7.04 miles

Comment: I'm feeling very slow, and maybe this is the corollorary of having a distance target. Still, perhaps after a month of doing 25+ mile weeks I'll get some speed back.