You Know You're Running In 5 Degree Weather When...

...the sweat on your eyebrows and in your hair freezes and turns into icicles.

I looked like I was going skiing this morning vs. running. I wasn't able to get a picture of myself but I basically looked like this...

Today was my 3rd group run since the last time I posted anything. This was BY FAR the coldest day of any of our runs. When I got out of the car to start running the outside temperature said 3 degrees. It was even too cold to wear my iPod. The second I took it out of the car the wire to my headphones froze up and were so stiff that I couldn't even get them on.

At the end of the run our team coach told us that he almost thought about canceling the run after about a 1/2 mile but we stuck with it and all finished. I ended up running 14 miles today. By far the longest I've ever run.

Besides being very cold I'm am holding up and feeling well. I also received in the mail the Children's Hospital Running Bib that everyone will wear during the race. It looks like what the guy is wearing below. It's obviously very colorful so anyone that comes to watch me run should have no problem picking me out of a crowd.

I'm over the 1/2 way mark to 26 miles and getting pumped up for the Marathon. Thanks for everyone that has supported me throughout all my training...especially my wife and two girls that put up with me and are my biggest supporters.