I saw snow on Venus yesterday. Not a common occurrence. Actually I saw snow on a gobstopper sized sphere representing Venus (and several other planets too for that matter). My regular long run is down the cycle path towards Selby. The solar system is laid out en route, with all the planets to scale and at the appropriate scale distance to the sun. The sun is big globe 4 or 5 feet across and then you run past a pea size Mercury and then Venus and Earth in about a 100yds. Mars a little further on before a big gap to football sized Jupiter, a bigger gap to Saturn and then bloomin' miles to Uranus, Neptune and Pluto (which of course has now been stripped of it's planetary status. Just like Fred Goodwin and his knighthood). I have to run 6km to get the sun, so no wonder it's so cold as I live at the orbit of Neptune. Not sure when the planets were last all lined up together like that, but no doubt some astronomer somewhere will know.
Bit of soreness in the backs of my thighs today. Not surprising after yesterdays run on the snow. Don't want that hamstring to start playing up. Probably go gently tomorrow and save the speed session for another day
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