Sat 3/18 - AM 85 minutes

Another out and back along the west side, this time heading north from the 20th st. intersection and getting about 90 blocks or so up the river before turning around and heading back. Like yesterday, the pace dawdled at first for the first 15 minutes as I had to shake off the cobwebs. After that though, I got bored and picked up the pace and continued to do so for the remainder of the run, in step-wise fashion. The 5k race, an exercise in athletic tourism, that I had entered for today was canceled due to weather concerns. Apparently the city told the race management they wouldn't be holding the event. Hindsight's 20/20 but the predicted snow didn't materialize and even if it had I don't see how it would have made racing unsafe or impossible. Annoying but it wouldn't have been a stellar effort with three weekends in a row of racing (originally not planned for) coming before this weekend. The garbage weather that makes it seem as if February and March switched places has gotten thoroughly tiresome.