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Today I did a 10km running race. Although it was blue skies and sunny, the temperature was about -16C, and the roads were covered in hard-packed snow and ice, which made it difficult to run fast. I haven't been running much - just a few times this week - so my goal was to just make it to the finish, which I did. It was extremely cold, even while running! Now it's snowing very, very hard (again), and I don't know if I'm going to get the chance to ride my bike again before I return to Tokyo.