winter tires

Okay, I have been seriously procrastinating on getting winter tires. I have had them the past few years but for some reason this year with a newer car I have been waffling. So today we get a big dump of snow and the roads become treacherous. What normally takes be 25 minutes to drive to work turned into nearly 2 hours and it took nearly that long to get home too. Thankfully after a few attempts I made it up the OPT trench and arrived home safe, sound and warm...then outside again to shovel the pile of snow that had accumulated around the building. You gotta love winter. Well that's over with so now on to the day. I must have been very tired as I was in bed by 10:30pm Thursday night and woke up briefly at 3:45 then right through until 8am. I went to the gym for my Friday Met Con session and did 6 sets of 500m sprint rows trying to maintain a 1:48/500m split. I was supposed to take my best 2k time(7:34) and calculate my 500m split time (1:53) then subtract 5 seconds. Number 1 was tough but good at 1:46, fell off a little on number 2, wanted to quit after number 3, near death at number 5 and just dug in for the 6th. Heart pounding, shaky and a momentary mouth full of vomit after a burp.
Times were 1:46.7/1:49.2/1:47.5/1:49.3/1:54.9/1:49.1 damper was at 5 except for #3 when I went to 4.5. My footpad was set at 3