It wasn't too cold, maybe around 10 degrees(Celsius), rather wet and muddy, but that's ok for me...

So off I went on what I expected to be a fabulous run.I took my smallest doggie with me and she enjoyed every minute of it! :)

I was out for a bit longer than an hour which -given my usual out-of-training pace - must have meant something like 12K (I don't know exactly, because I ran around the town(village) and the surrounding forest but in a zig-zag fashion.I enjoyed it tremendously! However, I did feel a bit bad about my body being so out-of-training. I know I can run faster, more at ease, but since I've been out only once in a while lately, I cannot hope for anything better. I passed an elderly lady on bike and she murmured "Don't you have anything more useful to do?" I quickly looked around if there were any other people around, but couldn't see anyone, so she must have been talking to me. I kept my opinion to myself. As I was passing a pub I got the remark I almost every time get from half-drunk men(when I'm with a dog) " Nice bitch! The dog's not bad, either..." Interestingly enough, no one ever says a word when I'm with my huge, bear-like sarplaninac-mix dog....:)
I thought all ice and snow was gone by now, but I was wrong. The second half of my run took me in the forest where the path was covered in icy-snowy mud. I wished I'd had yaktrax.... I managed somehow without falling, but the slipping and bouncing took all of my energy. I know it by now that when cold starts to shiver down from the top of my head, all the way down on the back of the head and the spine, that's when my body has used up most of its fuel and I'm running out of energy very soon. Luckily, I could hold on until I got back home :)
After a shower and several glasses of orange-carrot juice, I'm having a sort of a runners' high, dancing in my seat in front of the computer at the moment.

 Unfortunately, this is not the whole story. Something happened that made 40 minutes of it into a little nightmare.
Now I guess the whole misery resulted from me not eating properly yesterday and today. Yesterday I only realized around noon that hadn't had anything except for two cups of coffee with milk.(in fact, I've been generally drinking more coffee lately than I should....) Then I had a moderate lunch, but that was all for the rest of the day. Today I've been alone, and when I'm alone I usually forget about eating. I had some coffee in the morning and a sandwich sometime around noon. The result? At around 20minutes into my run I got an awful stomach cramp with the pain soon creeping on to everything in the abdominal region. For a few minutes I thought I'd better stop, but then went on, trying not to concentrate on the pain and hoping it would cease. It did,if not at all cease but lessen about 40 minutes later, when I was almost back home anyway. It got much better after drinking something, though. Now, I'm sorta fine, but still cannot think of eating real food. At first, I thought I was stupid for not taking any drink with me (which is partly true), however, I never needed any fluid intake during runs on this distance, in such moderate and wet weather. So, now I'm here, clueless. Maybe it's just lack of proper training...