Winter sucks!!

     I really, really hate this weather.  The trails are rough, the roads are full of slush, it gets dark at 3 in the afternoon, and it take 15 minutes to get dressed to run.  How is a person supposed to train for an ultra in this crap!  Almost sound like a whiner don't I?  I'm kidding. I actually love this time of year.  Christmas, (yes I still call it Christmas),  New Years Day, The Rose Bowl, college football overload, and eating and drinking way too much.  But I also love this time of year because it gives a runner living in Central Illinois something to look forward to.  SPRING!!!!  I know it is still a few months away but it only takes a few mornings of single digit temps and you remember to appreciate a 90 degree, 90 percent humidity day running the roads between the corn fields in the middle of July.  I love this time of year, and I am so glad I have a great family and an ex wife/girlfriend that will put up with all my running crap.