Happy Valentine's Day womens! No big plans tonight - we're feeling a bit on the broke side after paying our 20% of my max dental benefits for the year (had 3 more fillings done last Thurs) plus more work to come for Tank, but we do have a couple of nice steaks & some asparagus to throw on the grill tonight so I get a night off from cooking! Probably just a walk together this evening; nothing fancy, but done with love.
My motorcycle is jealous of yours, SLOgoing! We had some mild weather on Saturday that would have made for decent riding but it was far too icy on the roads, then we got a big dump of snow on Sunday.
Last week's goals: run x 5: win with 6
swim x 1: FAIL - between dental work & dangerous driving conditions it just wasn't happening.
bike x 1: win
core/strength x 4: win
..and I actually FOAM ROLLED!
Saturday was a fatass "race" at Huron Natural Area, put on by a friend as a fundraiser for the Mood Disorders Society of Canada. Clay started at 5am and ran until 5pm - I came in as the "afternoon shift" as a bunch of people were leaving, running from 1pm-5pm. Conditions were icy in spots with snow on top that got mushier as the day went by; it warmed up to about 4c/39f and the sun came out here and there, but the traction devices stayed on the whole time. I got 32.5k in (5 x 6.5km loop), which was more than I expected, but at the cost of tweaking my damaged ankle again and my left hip tightening up on me.
I did manage another hour-long run through the snow that fell on Sunday - ankle didn't feel great, but was in better shape afterward than it had been the day before despite postholing through some heavy, slushy snow where the trail runs beside a roadway and more snow on the trail itself.
At least none of it was quite as terrifying as last Wednesday evening. I set off as early as I could from the office to run down to my Mum's, having forgotten my headlamp AND my traction devices (though most of my route was on sidewalk). Got to the Cooksville Creek Trail and as I stepped onto the sharp downhill my feet nearly went out from under me - it was glare ice almost all the way down! I couldn't stop - just tried to control the sliding and keep from falling. No idea how I made it through, but I remained upright!
It went on like that for a few hundred metres until I got to the section that has some lights and gets winter maintenance, but even that was pretty dicey.
I was in the same area the next afternoon & couldn't resist going to have a peek in daylight. Figured it would all look quite tame in the sunshine and I'd feel silly for being so out-of-control and scared the prior evening.
Nope. Just left shaking my head wondering how the heck I survived.
This week's goals: run x 5
swim x 1
bike x 1
core/strength x 4
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