Had a lot of fun on a winter run tonight.
As noted in an earlier blog post, we don’t usually have a lot of snow in Northern Germany. As far as I can remember, we didn’t have this much snow for so long since 1978/79 (which was a legendary winter for the “snow catastrophe” were power went down and villages couldn’t be reached for days).
In fact it is the first road closure for snow that I can remember. Along a route I run on quite often, there was suddenly a barrier …
As you can see, some cars had driven around it, but a short while later had to turn around as a huge snow drift of more than a meter high totally blocked the road:
The snow plow had tried to clear the drift, but had given up:
I climbed over it, sometimes sinking in up to my knees (but the snow was quite solid) and ran on in my loop. It was sometimes a bit tricky to run in the high snow, but even running on roads that were cleared was tricky:
There was a lot of snow even in the cleared sections, so it was like running in soft sand. It was exhausting and I was running about a minute per k slower than normal, but I had a total blast. Some passing motorists must have wondered about my mental state ..
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