Training Log Archive: Sandy

I love my car! For what ever reason I did not dig out my car yesterday or clean off the snow. Overnight everything froze solid and it stayed in the teens and low 20's all day so nothing was melting. What didn't get shoveled yesterday isn't getting shoveled, at least not for a while until it warms up a good bit. Getting the snow off my car amounted to sliding my hand under the top 2-3" of ice and sweeping away the soft snow right next to the car, then pounding on the top of the ice to break it up into chunks and then tossing the chunks (some a couple square feet) to the side. And then I crossed my fingers, started the car and rocked it back and forth a few times to break the hold on the wheels and then gently drove forward. It was a champ and just climbed up and over the 6-8" lip of frozen snow in the front of the car and over the stuff the plow had pushed to the sides and into the one plowed lane in the middle of the road. When I came home, it drove up and over the plowed stuff and back into the spot where it was. That was a relief as there was no way I was going to be able to shovel anything.

In preparation for the Crooked Compass I dug out my snow shoes and did a quick loop around the meadow. It wasn't too bad since the snow is very hard so I mostly just stayed on top. It probably would have been just fine in my o-shoes by themselves but I wanted to test the o-shoe/snowshoe combination. It worked well. Not sure what I'll end up doing Saturday.

C • same dilemma 3

Trying to turn this into a habit.