Day 241 -- Last Chance

Running guru Hal Higdon says on his winter training page that even runners who run indoors "probably need to get outdoors at least once a week to run long." Well, I can't promise to run outside every week this winter, but I made it out today.

It wasn't really that bad. We've been having lows in the teens, but today it was 30 degrees (F) when I went out. It was a bit windy, so running south was worse than running north. I did six miles by running my three mile route twice. The plan was that if I was freezing my ass off after the first lap, I could quit there. But I made it all the way.

A few miles west of Derby, Iowa, is the little town of Last Chance. It's impossible to Google images for Last Chance, of course, because that phrase shows up on so many more popular web pages. Mostly sports. It's the University of Iowa's last chance to win a football game or whatever. So, no pictures from Last Chance, but at least we know that it's there.