Jolt: Glad your recovery is coming along. I'm sure it's a challenge of patience to ease back into it, but you're doing an awesome job!

I'll ask my hubby when he gets home, but I remember seeing and hearing good things about a new shoe that Nike came out with. It has Gore-Tex technology and is supposed to weather the elements better.

I think it's this one...

http://store.nike.com/index.jsp?coun...d-1/pid-192954

(He just got home and says "yep, it's that one".)

Unfortunately my shoe budget was spent last month so I can't give them a shot, but I am curious.

http://www.inov-8.com/

Is another good resource. They customize in trail running shoes which typically means more water/junk proof. I've heard very good things about these from guys at the LRS here.

As for me, I got a 5.3 (according to mapmyrun.com) mile run in today. About 2-3" of snow covered most of the paths with 6" in spots where there was drifting or where the plow had sprayed snow onto it.

Overall a pleasant run in about 20 degree weather. Kind of felt like trail running. Took a bit more work to make sure I wouldn't roll an ankle on the uneven surface, but I'm definitely a lot more content running in the snow versus running on a dreadmill.