Hi Womens:)
Pretty good week. I love my new trainer, and it has been a game changer of sorts. Usually, my default is to go for a run. I really think of running as cheap therapy, and that's probably the main reason I've logged so many miles over the years. Unfortunately, I live off a dirt road and our weather has been weird and sloppy. It's freezing at night, but then warms up to a goopy mess during the day. I had this "fantasy" of logging four bricks last week now that I have my trainer dialed in, but the roads just didn't comply.
The first part of the run is on a hill, so there's good drainage; it isn't until the second mile that the road turns into a swamp. I usually have two or three dogs running with me--off lead, as we live in the country--and they're chasing rabbits and squirrels. Every step was a combo of crunching through ice and then getting sucked down into mud. On that muddy stretch each shoe had five to six pounds of mud on it, flying up hitting me in the back of the leg, all the while dodging crazy dogs. It was one of the best leg and stability workouts I've ever done, and gives new meaning to the word "brick". This pic was taken after finishing the last 1.5 miles on gravel which isn't muddy, so a lot of the mud had come off of my shoes by then, but you get the idea :)
OK, I'm done whining now.
I am kind of permanently cold in the winter. I have been going to hot yoga again and that has been an awesome counter to the cold-to-the-core feeling I have most of the time. The days when I can do a run first, and then stretch it out in hot yoga are the best!
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Trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists