What Half-Marathon Training is Like in Indiana

We Hoosiers complain about it all the time...the weather. It's too cold (like wind chill of -20 this past January) or it's too hot (100+ degrees last summer). So I'm not going to bore everyone by complaining about the weather again. What I AM going to complain about is the fact that in the past 3 months, the snow and/or freezing temps always choose to arrive on Wednesday. It's like the curse of nasty-weather Wednesdays. Which is unfortunate for me and my co-workers, because that is the night of our Mini Marathon training. Let's take a look at my "weather journal" for the past 9 Wednesdays:

1/30: 3 mile run. Alternating between snow and rain, with wind so hard that when the snow hits your face, our participants described it as microdermabrasion.
2/6: 4 mile run. Just plain cold.
2/13: 5 mile run. Just plain cold.
2/20: 6 mile run. The day's high temp was in the 20's. SO incredibly cold that I could not feel my legs, fingers, lips or eyeballs. Until I got back inside and everything thawed out and BURNED.
2/27: 7 mile run. Warmer (30's! Woo!) but with a constant downpour of huge, heavy snowflakes that blew in our faces the entire time no matter if we were down-wind or up-wind. By far the most soaked I've ever been after a run.
3/6: 4 mile run. The day after a big snowfall, so although it was not falling during the run, we were running ON snow and ice patches.
3/13: 8 mile run. Just plain cold.
3/20: 9 mile run. Temp is currently 31--highest it's been all day--and windy. What I can only expect will be another miserably cold, numb run.

At this point, I would just be happy with high 40's or any temperature that eliminates the need for my hat, gloves and thermal fleece vest.

And, because it's Indiana, this date last year was 85 degrees...which I would not have wanted to run 9 miles in either....