Runner’s World article about winter running….

“Running, to me, has always been an intricate juggle of pleasure and pain. I like a side order of suffering with my beauty or I just don’t feel right; splendor without effort seems like cheating and eliminates my enjoyment (a concept that non runners, I’ve noted, don’t often grasp). Winter running takes all the usual dichotomies and enhances them: There’s more pleasure, and there’s more pain. Call me strange, or simply call me a runner.” -Michael Finkel, writer, runner.