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2014-02-21 9:20 AM
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We are having one of the top 5 coldest winters in history. Sure hope I haven't scared everyone off.
Sure has made it hard to get my long runs in.


2014-03-03 10:29 PM
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It was -20 Celsius (-4 F) for my run today. However we have some gradual warming in the forecast and it should be comfortably above freezing by the weekend. I expect that I have probably done my last 8-point-per-minute activity. The challenge has been great - I have never done this much exercise in such cold weather.
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2014-03-14 8:37 AM
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We finished the winter season (Dec - Feb) with the 2nd coldest winter in history with have ave temp of 7.7F.
We broke the record for the most days with below zero temp with 56 days so far.
I went through my logs to see what the ave morning temps were for my runs. I came up with 4.3F
I would rather lose the challenge then go through another winter like this one.
2014-03-15 5:19 PM
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It sounds like you had it a lot colder than we did in Calgary. The average temperature for my activities from Dec - Feb was 20 F. Most of my activities were later in the day. If I had done them all in the morning the average would be lower but I don't think it would have been close to 4 F.
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2014-03-22 4:14 PM
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Had a nice run today at - 4 but it's back into the cold weather tomorrow.
2014-03-24 9:14 AM
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Started out the last week of the challenge with 5 above this morning.


2014-03-26 5:50 PM
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Up to - 7 today and it's supposed to pop up above freezing by this weekend. Yahoo!
2014-03-31 8:58 PM
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I guess that's it. Congratulations Lenny!
And thanks for starting and organizing this challenge Bill.
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2014-04-02 5:11 PM
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Any reason why we're stopping now? There's still plenty of cold weather up here.
2014-04-03 7:53 PM
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Still unseasonably cold here as well. However, my enthusiasm for sucky weather is a lot lower than it was in December. And I'm happy not to bother with the bookkeeping. By next December I'll be raring to go again.
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2014-04-04 3:44 PM
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I'm not sure if this is legal or not but I'm going to keep adding to the March totals. It's a small consolation for living up north. BTW, it's snowing again today.


2014-04-07 8:58 AM
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Glad this is over and it is starting to warm up. Sure hope next winter isn't as bad as this one was, I would consider moving south.
Missed Bill this year pushing the points with his bike.

Hope to see everyone back next season.
2014-10-06 1:43 PM
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We had our first snow of the season, must be getting close to challenge time.
2014-10-16 7:06 PM
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The weather is too nice here for me to start thinking of winter sports. But I did notice that XC skiing has started in Canmore (1 hr drive from Calgary).
http://skierbob.ca/2014/10/skiing-starts-this-weekend-at-canmore/

What about a shorter challenge for the winter of 2014 / 2015? Or monthly challenges? I was pretty tired of looking up weather and tracking points by the end of last year's challenge. And there were only a few of us that stuck with the challenge from start to finish. Maybe there would be more participants if it didn't last so long.
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2014-10-31 8:38 AM
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Nov 1st tomorrow and they are calling for morning low in the 20's.
Not sure how to create a new page for this years challenge.
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