Ooh, Le Creuset...my darling husband treated me to a 13" skillet and a saucier one Christmas, then bought me the matching spoon rest (all cherry), silicone handle sleeve and "cool tools". I call them my stove jewelry! I cook almost exclusively in cast iron - have quite an assortment, though nothing else Le Creuset (mostly Lodge non-enameled plus my King Kooker Dutch oven that I just got last summer). I even have a pair of 4" skillets I use for making individual frittatas, giant brownies, giant cookies, oversize pancakes, etc. Last week's goals: run x 5: win with 7
swim x 1: win with 2
bike x 1: win
core/strength x 4: win
..and I foam rolled again!
Winter came back. I am not impressed. I ran in a skirt after work on Wednesday in a crazy windstorm (but 8c/46f), then by Saturday the high for the day was -8c/18f.
I went back to
Hydrocut for the first time since the fall, and despite the bone-chilling cold there were very slippery muddy spots where the sun had warmed the ground. Most of it was still frozen, though, and lumpy with bike tire tracks and footprints hidden under the snow and leaves.
Of course, the sun disappeared and the wind picked up even more less than an hour into my run, just as I was reaching the backcountry section where there were a ton of downed trees.
I was back there for an hour and a half or so, listening to the creak and groan of trees straining to stay upright in the wind. Then the sun set, so I had to boot it back out to the front - I had intended to be out for 4-ish hours but ended it at 3h35m because it was just too sketchy to be out there in full darkness. Not to mention my mittens froze solid as the temperature dropped even more..
I only managed to cover a paltry 23km, but having given my damaged ankle a good wrench in about the least-accessible portion of the trail system, I was just happy to get out safely. I only needed my headlamp for the last 15mins or so, which is a good thing since I had trouble spotting ankle-rolling obstacles even in full sunlight!
Sunday was sunny again but still very cold as I ran up the Royal Rec trail in Guelph to
GORBA. More slippery mud and frozen, lumpy mud made for a lot of hiking again.
Despite the sun, the wind off Guelph Lake was vicious - I was glad to be thoroughly bundled up.
Managed to spare my ankle pretty well by moving slowly through the trails but opened it up and ran the paved Downtown Trail to get to our friends' house for a get-together in the afternoon.
Not super happy about only getting in 18km (in 2h20m) but I decided I'd see if I could do it on water alone, which went fine - I'd had a bagel with egg & peameal bacon for breakfast about 90mins before I started, which thankfully sat ok. I felt a little hungry toward the end but not too tired...or at least no more tired than when I started, because I got bugger-all for sleep Saturday night (exacerbated by the time change).
Hate that I didn't even make 80km total for last week, but I did spend almost 6hrs of moving time on the trails over the weekend so I'll just have to live with it. Have a ~5hr run with a friend planned for Saturday so hopefully I'll be able to get some good mileage in this week, but a howling snowstorm came in yesterday and made Monday's double run very tough. My left hip/glute is very angry with me and I'm hoping that today will go a little easier, though it hasn't actually stopped snowing and blowing yet.
This week's goals: run x 5
swim x 1
bike x 1
core/strength x 4
foam roll x 1
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