Fingers crossed for you, TC!
Wow, all that green! Winter came howling back last week, so it's all white again for now - freezing rain is supposed to start any moment here, change to rain, and then freeze up overnight. There goes running without traction aids!
Last week's goals: run x 5: win with 7
swim x 1: FAIL - closed highway on Tues meant we didn't get home until 9pm & Tank needed emergency dental work Thurs evening
bike x 1: FAIL
core/strength x 4: win
Had some more dentistry done on myself on Saturday (major cleaning on R side, drill & fill 3 cavities on bottom R) but managed to get an hour-long run in before and another 8k in the evening.
Lots of geese down on the river ice.
Some lovely sunshine through the bare trees.
The sun had just set when I headed out again (down the other side of the same river)
I cam to a sign at the top of the lower portion of the trail that said it was closed due to flooding, but at -10c/14f in the morning, I figured it would all be frozen up even if there had been some flooding. I decided to try.
Ok, there has definitely been flooding. I picked my way across some of this ice field..
But noped the hell out of setting foot on the broken bridge when it was getting dark & my sweetheart was at home convalescing from a tooth extraction. I turned around & ran the upper portion of the trail, looping back to get 5 miles done, then headed home.
On Sunday morning there was a "course preview" run for a local half marathon (I've run the full marathon twice, but the half course is nicer), so I was out running with a bunch of friends. I generally train solo so it was kind of fun to have company, but OH MY GAWD I FORGOT HOW MUCH LONG ROAD RUNS SUCK! Especially when you're out running through open fields with blowing snow and jerkwad drivers who think it's fun to play chicken with runners on the shoulder.
But, well, it was a pretty good way to get a decently long back-to-back weekend in. At almost 71km that's the most I've put in for a week in awhile, and I do need to start building for that spring 100k.
This week's goals: run x 5
swim x 1
bike x 1
core/strength x 4
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