Snow

Don't know right now what the weather in the Clydebank, Bearsden, Glasgow area is like but up here there was a serious snowfall on Friday night and then last night (Saturday/Sunday) there was even more fell overnight. Right now - 12 noon on Sunday - it is still falling! I remember Cyril O'Boyle saying something like: "You're out running in the snow which is mainly slush, folk are poking umbrellas in your eyes, women are shoving you off the pavement with their prams, buses are pushing you back on again and you're thinking - thank goodness I'm out of the house getting peace and quiet for five minutes!" He was of course exaggerating but what do you do for training in snow anyway? Nowadays it's easy with the indoor arena at the Kelvn Hall and the indoor area at Scotstoun. Then there are all the sports centres - even in West Dunbartonshire there is one in every town. We used to do all sorts of things so that we did not miss a day of training although it was not always very useful, at least it kept the habit going. For instance:
1. I had one runner who lived in Chalmers Street doing skipping (with ropes!) on the landing outside his house - 15 minutes easy warm up then any number of timed fast reps before finishing with another few minutes of easy skipping;
2. Wee circuits inside the bedroom - press-ups. sit-ups and squat thrusts to maximum were very good ones and did not take too much time.
3. Go to the swimming baths.
4. Living in a four-in-a-block with internal concrete steps, I once or twice did half an hour or more up and down the stairs - as good as a hill session and didn't bug the rest of the family.
There's never a reason for not doing a training session - think where you live and find a way to do something! The one used by Pete Cartwright when he was with Falkirk Victoria and couldn't train in the snow was to put his bike on rollers in the garden shed and do his training on the bike!