McMurdo Thanksgiving is celebrated the Saturday after actual Thanksgiving and almost everyone on station gets the full two day weekend off. Most people here work 6 days a week with only Sunday off, so parties were in full swing to celebrate the longer weekend. We all went to Adela's tango class Friday evening and then I was in the lab with Katarina and Adela until almost 1 am. Saturday morning there was a 5K turkey trot. The weather was not great: very windy and lightly snowing. The first half of the run was uphill and against the wind and it was probably the hardest 1.5 miles I have ever run. I had a buff over my face (and goggles), but my condensed breath and snot (my nose was running like crazy) made my buff freeze solid, which was very hard to breathe through. Once we turned back at the top of the hill and the wind was with us the run was much easier.
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