Training Log Archive: Swampfox

While running last night after skiing, I heard 2 wings of geese flying overhead. They were headed towards in the Laramie Valley, it sounded like, though it was too dark for me to see them.

I like the sound of geese as a flock is passing overhead. I don't like the sound of geese as they are waddling across Alameda Ave. and taking *forever*!

Quite nice out, and the longest workout ended up being biking today, followed by some skiing and running later in the day. While skiing, it crossed my mind that the last half of February and the inledning of March had been quite dry here, and that in turn reminded me I hadn't heard anything lately about how California was doing rain/snow-wise. One can only hope they're getting more of what they need (snow in the mountains) and less of what they don't need (dry heat.)

Then, in the evening, there was a conference call led by Kris to discuss details and progress concerning the upcoming Rocky Mountain O' Festival. I don't know what others on the call might have thought, but to me this inspirational banner ad by Brooke was the highlight:

From publiken

When it's time for the presidential wannabe to run his next ad, I will ask Brooke to change the chest beating slogan to "Every cliff deserves a contour", which is indisputably correct, and which thereby would go down in history as the first fact cited in his presidential bid.

Unlike yesterday, when I skipped skiing and ran longer instead, today I skied and skipped running. (It helps when you remember to bring your ski boots along with you!) Did intervals on our best hill loop, which, with a few more days of full sun and mild temps, might melt through in one spot.

The wind was at full voracious, eat-em-up levels, with many newly downed trees. Most had already been sawed up and removed by the time I was up top, but one tree across a trail had obviously just come down. Judging by how many trees have come down and appraising the large numbers of beetle kill trees left, next season is likely to feature higher amounts of fallen trees.

Someone must have reported what I wrote about yesterday to the wind, because today the wind did not mess around and was at full throttle much of the day. As an example, a quick trip to the Post Office on my bike, which usually takes about 9 minutes, took over 15 minutes thanks to a very fine headwind.

The wind carried with it a brief snow squall, so brief and so light that if you wanted to perform Yowsa! you would have had to rush out within 10 minutes of the snow squall passing, and even then any implement of removal larger than a teaspoon would have been overkill.

For the first time this year, the clouds had a more summerish than winterish aspect to them, and snow thunder seemed possible.