Its Winter Again!!

Well, we just had 60 degree weather yesterday. I decided to do a ten mile easy run. Nothing easy about it. That was the most slushy and muddy run I ever ran. There was no way I was going to do a tempo run... plus all of the snow had not melted. Now today its 30 degrees and windy!! Half of the area lost power. I was at a jazz concert last night and the power went out too. But the band kept playing!! Now THAT'S music, where you dont have all that electronic stuff to hide your imperfections. (i'm an ex-trumpeter, so i'm biased). On my way home last night, a street light had fallen probably a few minutes before I got to it... those things must weigh a ton!!!! Pieces were all over the place!! Now today, since I dont forsee any 60 degree weather any time soon, I did a 5k tempo run. The first 2.5 was around a 7 minute flat pace... the second half (25mph wind in my face) was a lot slower. Total avg 7:25 mpm pace. Aside from the wind tearing me up, I felt fine. I'm 75% sure I'm going to run this 4 mile race on New Years Eve. Hoping to have 7:10 pace or below, but i havent run a "fast" race in soooo long, we'll see, and I run on...