Starting the new year off with a sinus infection (with swelling bad enough to cause toothaches that keep me awake at night) and hoping our 4th trip to the dealership will FINALLY sort out whatever is wrong with our car.
Made no goals for last week but ran 7 x and walked a bunch, plus a couple of strength workouts. Been tapering for the 8-hour indoor race this Saturday - not sure how that's going to go since I'm ill, but I'll give it a whack anyway as apparently it's the last year for this race (and it's one I've never done before).
Got out for a New Year's Eve trail run on a bit of trail I hadn't seen in winter yet:
The trail runs through the middle of a place called Bingemans that has a campground, waterpark, bowling alley, mini golf, and event halls, and apparently does a huge Christmas lights display as a charity fundraiser in the winter. I got to run through it, including a really neat tunnel made of lights.
New Year's Day I finally got out for an xc ski with my husband along the river - I brought a kettle, stove & mugs along in a daypack, and we stopped in the woods just after sunset for a hot chocolate brew-up. We'd intended to go camping over the New Year's weekend, but between car trouble and both of us being sick, we figured it was better to have our own warm bed to crawl into.
We did light ourselves a fire in the backyard to finish off New Year's Day, so got most of the fun of winter camping anyway - my sweetheart even made me a mincemeat fire pie!
It wasn't until we were already out there and cozy by the fire that we realized the temperature had dropped to -10c (14f) - crazy after 2c (35f) during the afternoon!
Ended off our holidays Monday with a just-after-sunset run along another bit of trail that I'd neglected for awhile - such a lovely, peaceful evening.
This week's goals: run x 5
strength x 1 (done)
foam roll x 1 (done)
yoga x 1
I'd like to at least get 45-50km in on Saturday - enough to call it an ultra. Will probably do a run 4 laps/walk 1 lap (232m track) strategy from the start and see how that goes. I've never done an 8-hour before, nor an indoor race, so I have no performance goals or distance to beat; just going to play it by ear.
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