{"id":1382,"date":"2015-02-14T08:58:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T13:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2015-02-14T08:58:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T13:58:52","slug":"time-to-really-earn-the-winterman-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=1382","title":{"rendered":"Time to Really Earn the Winterman Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think I should have run the Hypothermic last weekend. \u00a0The temperature was almost balmy at around -12 C. \u00a0But instead i opted to race a shorter distance, 10k, at tomorrow’s Winterman. \u00a0Here is what Environment Canada is predicting for tomorrow:<\/p>\n

Mainly cloudy with 30 percent chance of snow early in the morning. Clearing in the morning. Local blowing snow in the morning. Wind northwest 30 km\/h gusting to 50 becoming light late in the evening. High minus 19. Wind chill minus 31.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Of course Winterman happens to be held in an open area along the Ottawa River. \u00a0This isn’t going to be pretty. \u00a0The race is made up of loop repeats, so you are allowed to run a shorter distance than you signed up for and head to the finish line early. \u00a0You just need to let race officials know and they will record your time based on the shorter race distance. \u00a0This means I do have the option of doing only one loop and being part of the 5k race. \u00a0I would really like to complete the 10, even if it is going to be slow, and if we get those wind gusts coming off the river it is going to be really slow!<\/p>\n

Ottawa has been stupidly cold this year. \u00a0We have had day after day of temperatures in the minus 20’s or worse when windchill is factored in. \u00a0I think I can count on one hand the number of pleasant winter days we have experienced since we started the new year. \u00a0When I got up yesterday the temperature with the windchill was -40 C, that crazy cold number where Celsius and Fahrenheit meet. \u00a0I ran 11k outside yesterday and when I headed out at 2;00 in the afternoon it had only warmed up to -32. Amazingly I was able to find an area that wasn’t too windy and just kept running out and backs and small loops.<\/p>\n

I just checked the temperatures in Moscow, Whitehorse and Anchorage. \u00a0They are all hovering around -2 C. \u00a0Who would have thought that in the middle of winter those cities would look like the ideal places to go to warm up?<\/p>\n

At tomorrow’s race there will be people doing the marathon distance. \u00a0Anyone hardy enough to do that will certainly have my utmost admiration!<\/p>\n

For anyone else who has an urge to run a very Canadian, wintery race tomorrow, registration can be done first thing in the morning at the War Museum.<\/p>\n

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Nothing but ice looking through the windows of our church. \u00a0The icicles are over 5 feet long.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think I should have run the Hypothermic last weekend. \u00a0The temperature was almost balmy at around -12 C. \u00a0But instead i opted to race a shorter distance, 10k, at tomorrow’s Winterman. \u00a0Here is what Environment Canada is predicting for tomorrow: Mainly cloudy with 30 percent chance of snow early in the morning. Clearing in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3amQ2-mi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}