How This Runner Survives the Cold

Sooo, it's, um, COLD outside. I mean, it's unreasonably COLD outside. It is so unreasonably COLD outside, that it is also COLD inside. My heat pump (the one that is still operational) has not stopped running once in the last 48 hours. I am already looking for a 5th job to help me pay next month's electric bill. There is an actual breeze blowing through certain portions of my home. I am wearing two pairs of everything, sitting under a fleece blanket, drinking a piping hot cup of coffee as I write this and still my fingers can barely maneuver the keyboard. Clearly I didn't move far enough South.

My point?

I will not run outside in the COLD. I refuse. You can't make me. No amount of athlete-envy or peer pressure in the world can make me go out there. In fact, I refuse to even go out to get the mail. Whatever it is, it will wait until April.

This is why my home workout programs are so near and dear to my heart. I won't run in the COLD. I won't drive to the gym in the COLD. But, I WILL push play on my DVD player and raise my body temperature to an acceptable level to get me through the day. I will also supplement that workout with hourly squats, push ups, and burpees to be sure that I can maintain a core body temperature conducive to human life.

How are you surviving in this arctic tundra?

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And seriously, WHY is my dog just chillin out there in the yard like it's a beautiful spring morning? Whatever. I need another scarf.