NCAA Regionals: It's warm. In Room 616

As I type this, from the warmth of our hotel in suburban Buffalo, it's 22 degrees outside with a "real feel" (wind chill) of 5 degrees. As the day progresses, this does not look to change -- unless you inject snow flurries into the forecast. The real feel will hover in the single digits all day. It's cold. It's windy. At our pre-meet run yesterday on the course, the Audubon Golf Course was a swampy, muddy mess. I walked the first 1km of the course, and my boots and flannel-lined khakis were covered in mud and muck. The key words in the previous sentence: "walk" and "1km" ... now, imagine our intrepid runners traversing this slop for 6km (women, at 11 a.m.) and 10km (men, at 12 noon). Add in brutal wind and cold temperatures and, well, you have a cross country meet, in November, in Buffalo.