Happy Saturday! Is it sad that I have been looking forward to this day since last weekend? No work today, no big commitments other than lunch with a friend which will be fun…. Saturdays are my favorite day of the week. 🙂
For Saturday Snapshot today I wanted to post the pictures from the Polar Dash my friend Amy and I ran on January 1st of this year. I could not think of a better way to kick off the year than with something fun and good for me all rolled into one.
Now before you all say “You sooooo crazy girl!”, know that 5,000 other crazy people ran the Polar Dash with me (including my friends Belinda, Sheila W, Ryan, and April). Yup. 5,0000 crazies…. all together in the same area. 🙂 AND the money raised went to the Shriner s Children’s Hospital. We like that.
Check out what other people are taking pictures of this COLD January morning at the Saturday Snapshot host blog, West Metro Mommy Reads. In Minnesota it is about to get really cold. The wind chill starting late this afternoon and will be 40 to 55 below zero with wind chill through Tuesday. We are in a severe weather warning through the weekend and the Governor has already cancelled school for the entire state on Monday.
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Good for you-it looks cold there-I hope that you are not freezing this weekend.
So far its not bad. 13 above currently. 🙂 I am a little nervous about tonight and tomorrow.
Here I’ve been whining about the cold on my morning walks – 23 yesterday and 30 today. Why in the world would anyone run in freezing temperatures in their underwear?
I would love 23 and 30’s!!!!! I dont know what his deal was but I bet he is either sick or dead now 😀
I hope that guy ran really fast.
Me too!
Br. I don’t think I could run in the cold like that.
Once you get moving its ok…. its the standing and waiting to start that’s hard.
You totally amaze me, I can imagine running in those frigid temps! And the guy in his underwear? OMG … he’s a crazy man!
Right???? I cant imagine!
Proud of you for getting out there and running in the COLD! 🙂 We are supposed to get the freeze-out tomorrow, but today 62 and sunny!
I am proud of me too… It was the perfect way to start out the New Year!
I’m just shivering from looking at the photos…and it never gets that cold here. We think it’s cold when it’s in the 30s! But we have the extreme heat (114) in the summers here. (Mostly 110, but sometimes higher).
That’s my kind of weather but I am trying hard to love all the seasons and embrace them.
The guy with the snow in his beard and the gal with frosted eyelashes crack me up! I wish I was as brave as you.
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I know! The first girl I seen with lashes like that I thought they were fake, that she was just getting into the spirit – then I seen they were frozen!!!
You are so good doing this for charity – I bet it was cold, and must have been tough going. Thank you for visiting my blog.
It was cold – but fun. I am looking forward to doing it again next year 🙂
You are such a brave girl! We just had the deep freeze and wind chill warning this past week too.
It was worth it 😀
Yes, I think that’s a bit crazy but OMG that guy in the swimsuit… 😀
Right?????? 😆
Brrrrrr! And I thought I was crazy going out in a freezing cold snowstorm to count birds for Audubon and science research. I guess you can’t stop us from supporting a good cause. 🙂
The guy in the swimsuit was my aaaakkkkk moment for the morning. Good thing I had finished my coffee!
LOL… sorry I hope I didn’t disturb your breakfast with that image. 😀
That… looks cold. I like the eyelashes one… and that other pic. Um, yeah that guy is crazy I think. Wow. We’re getting cold here in Michigan too, but we’re not as cold as you guys yet. Stay warm!
Thanks Greg – the eyelashes are cool arent they?
It’s been 8 degrees here in the city and honestly I have never been so cold in my life! I think the coldest before this was I remember walking to college and it being 12 degrees, but only once or twice. Now I also walk to work (and ride the subway) and yesterday I felt frozen. I can’t even imagine running in it!!!! This is amazing!
Its the running that warms you up Lu 😛
Those two people with frozen beard./eyelashes are funny, but I hope they didn’t get sick, as well as the “I’m a macho man” man.
LOL no kidding! If you go on Facebook and look at the Polar Dash page for Minnesota you can see a lot more of these frozen people – there were some I wish I had my camera ready for. One girl’s hat was frozen and so was her hair!
Holy smokes! You are one determined young woman! A good cause and a great event, but …. BRRRRRRR!
It wasnt so bad 🙂
Yeah, I wussed out and went to the gym rather than running outside today because it was *gasp* 65F! I’m no longer fit to live anywhere “cold.” Well done! One run down, eh?
65????? Perfect running weather! If anything perhaps a bit too warm! 😀
What an astonishing series of photos. I’m not a runner, and can’t imagine running in weather like that. I know that it can so cold that the air hurts to breathe in, none of which seems like fun. Congratulations for finishing.
Thanks Louise, thankfully there was no wind that day – that’s the part that hurts the lungs. We ran one last March that I felt colder in and could not get warm afterwards.
Great photographs! Thanks for sharing!! Have a great 2014!
Here is my snapshot post.
Thanks – you too! 😀
I think chilly willies might have been the order that day! well done to you
Hee hee… thanks to my friend Amy it was a great time… up to about 18 hours before the run, I was going to run alone and then meet up with my other friends after the run.
Wow! What a fun event. I love all the layered up looks. But the guy running in practically nothing? That’s just crazy!
So fun to read! I just happened upon this blog as I like to read a couple of fitness articles before I fall asleep each evening….. and I thought, I ran a race on New Year’s Day so this will be good! Was I shocked to see myself in one of your pictures! I am in the yellow/gray coat (right in front) in the start pic. This has been fun to send to my family! Thanks!!!
Oh my gosh that is hilarious and super cool!!!! I have to go and find you now in the picture!
Holy Hannah montana that looks cold !