I love the MI Metroparks! I've had the pleasure of visiting a few and doing some running and cycling.
We've had the same warm up that turned everything to slush (and let me tell you how much I enjoyed shoveling that out of my mum's driveway), then froze to a sheet of lumpy ice - it was still lurking there under a bit of snow that fell Friday night when I set out on the trails to the Market yesterday morning.
The sunlight in winter is so beautiful, though.
It clouded over later in the day, but the light was still amazing on the other trail I ran.
It dumped another 3-4" of snow last night - things were still very much un-plowed when I went out for the first run of the day.
Funny how -11c with windchill of -20c doesn't even really feel cold anymore, though I could have done without the 50+kph wind blowing the snow around.
(No snow was falling at the time - this was just blowing off the rooftops)
When I headed out again later on the plows - and my neighbours - had done a lot of work to clear roads and sidewalks, but the wind had filled a lot of it back in.
The rapidly dropping sun was the "star" of the show, though - even my boring old residential area looked stunning gilded by the fading day.
So, managed to hit 50 runs on day 44. My new snowshoes should be delivered to my office tomorrow, so I may have to do another double (lunch run + after work) in order to try them out since I have a snowshoe race a week today and we're supposed to get another 6" of snow starting early tomorrow afternoon.
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