Winter in Pittsburgh turns out to be not much of my understanding of winter - it's around 5-10
°C during daytime now. And it's an enormous advantage in terms of outdoor running:
there's no dirt on streets.
Other pluses running-wise are that:
- Not many people walk on sidewalks; they prefer cars, mostly.
- Sidewalks are free of dogs' dung (one can get jailed for not cleaning after a pet. So even the richest men care about it - or, alternatively, hire other people to care about it).
And in general, it's like spring right now in 'Burgh. Check out the pictures:
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| A hard-to-believe looks of Gates-Hillman Center in January. |
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| A flowerbed and a clean sidewalk. |
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| A forest. |
This is what Pittsburgh has to offer
.
And what is Moscow good for? A bunch of snow that turns into mess at around 0
°C.
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| Snow. |
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| Snow! |
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| More snow. |
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| Even more snow! |
The difference is obvious: in Moscow, I could barely make myself run about an hour; in Pgh, I did 100 mins on my first physically consistent day (i.e. the day when I got through a terrible jetlag caused by
my troubles in JFK). No surprise people do
that a lot in Russia.
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