Black Ice!
Its just like normal ice, only worse. A special kind of ice that lurks in the shadows. . . slipperier, invisibler, waiting to get you. . . its black ice!
Always thought there was something subtly racist about the term "black ice", a term that is among the winter favorites of local newscasts and meant to strike fear in the heart of good citizens. Kind of like Michael Moore's shtick in Bowling for Columbine about the "Africanized" killer bees.
There were four of us this morning, as Deirdre joined us. Pretty soon Club West Philly will be sooo big we won't be able to cancel our runs! We headed west into the 'hood and that's where we came upon the ice. Apparently it rained last night and it wasn't even that cold, but the rain froze on the streets and left frequent slippery patches. It felt like we were doing six minute strides to keep an 8-minute pace. We got to Cobbs Creek and the bike path was no better. So instead of going into the dark butterfly sanctuary portion we decided to be safe and just turned around to go home. Coming home we'd get a block or two of just wet pavement and I'd think we were wimps and then out of nowhere - black ice!
5.8 miles in 48:16. Round it up to 6 in the log and the plan is to run an additional 4.2 over lunch. Tony got a new bike, his first one with gears, over the weekend but it looks like we'll be walking to school this morning.
Addendum
Took care of unfinished business and ran over lunch. Treadmills were full again, so I came up with the radical idea of running outside. From USP to Franklin Field, 3 laps on the track, and up Locust Walk to 47th and back to USP. 4 2/3 miles in 38:36, we'll call the whole day 10 1/2 miles and consider it "easy".
Always thought there was something subtly racist about the term "black ice", a term that is among the winter favorites of local newscasts and meant to strike fear in the heart of good citizens. Kind of like Michael Moore's shtick in Bowling for Columbine about the "Africanized" killer bees.
There were four of us this morning, as Deirdre joined us. Pretty soon Club West Philly will be sooo big we won't be able to cancel our runs! We headed west into the 'hood and that's where we came upon the ice. Apparently it rained last night and it wasn't even that cold, but the rain froze on the streets and left frequent slippery patches. It felt like we were doing six minute strides to keep an 8-minute pace. We got to Cobbs Creek and the bike path was no better. So instead of going into the dark butterfly sanctuary portion we decided to be safe and just turned around to go home. Coming home we'd get a block or two of just wet pavement and I'd think we were wimps and then out of nowhere - black ice!
5.8 miles in 48:16. Round it up to 6 in the log and the plan is to run an additional 4.2 over lunch. Tony got a new bike, his first one with gears, over the weekend but it looks like we'll be walking to school this morning.
Addendum
Took care of unfinished business and ran over lunch. Treadmills were full again, so I came up with the radical idea of running outside. From USP to Franklin Field, 3 laps on the track, and up Locust Walk to 47th and back to USP. 4 2/3 miles in 38:36, we'll call the whole day 10 1/2 miles and consider it "easy".
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