When I came to Berlin nearly ten years ago, I often heard people bemoaning the long, grey winters. With the arrival of spring and the first warm days there seemed to be an exaggerated sense of relief and pleasure that the days of darkness were over. Well, in the meantime I have come to appreciate that winters here do tend to be long, drawn-out affairs. It can be very cold for weeks on end. Three years ago it snowed on Boxing Day and it finally thawed at the end of March. This year we seem to be on course for something similar.
On the whole training hasn't been too difficult, despite the weather; there has always been sufficiently fresh snow to prevent it becoming too icy underfoot. Unfortunately the snow has now been compressed into ice and the pavements are quite treacherous.
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