The winter can kill your momentum; how I try to stay on track

It's cold.  I'm not talking about your average run of the mill cold weather, I'm talking about bone chilling, dangerous, stay indoors or risk frostbite cold.  We don't get it very often here in the Northeast; usually once or twice in the course of a winter, and then only for a couple of days.  I have great sympathy for dedicated runners in places like Minnesota where this is the norm for weeks at a time.  But the problem that extreme weather can have is that if you haven't planned for it, it can knock your training off track.  For those of us with ADHD it is especially risky.  We thrive on novelty and excitement.  However, this runs smack dab into our need for routine and structure.  If you have scheduled a time to run every single day, but suddenly you find that you have to shovel a foot of snow that just fell, your schedule is out of whack.  Throw in a few other distractions, like the kids being home from school, and your day could be shot.  Once my schedule is disrupted it's hard to get back on track.  Disrupt me for two or three days and my productivity takes a nose dive.

While it's not the end of the world to miss a day here or there running is the glue that holds the structure in my life together.  Therefore, I need to make sure that somehow I make plans to get that running in.  here are a few thoughts:

1. I belong to a gym for the express purpose of having a backup in the event of bad weather preventing me from getting outside to run.   It's worth the money to me, as I don't have room in my home for a treadmill.  Just knowing I have an option keeps me from getting stressed out at the thought of a stretch of bad weather.
2. I try to plan ahead and think about the upcoming weather scenarios.  What days are likely to be too hot/cold/stormy to go outside?  What else is going on that day?  When could I schedule a trip to the gym?
3. If it looks like Mother nature will be getting in the way of running, I may try to build my training schedule around that.  I make my rest day coincide with the big snow storm for a guilt free indoors experience.
4. Finally I try to remember that sometimes discretion is the better part of valor.  I could run outdoors in the snowstorm or whatever, but is the run going to be of a good enough quality to justify the risk of injury?

I'm pleased that I can use these strategies to stay on track and try to keep my training at least semi-normal.  I'm also utilizing skills that can be helpful in other areas of my life: planning, prioritizing, thinking ahead, and having a back up plan.  Now if only I could be just as focused on my diet.....