Training Log Archive: Sandy

Hiked most of what I snowshoed the other day but cut out to the road instead of heading back through the meadow on the final part. Most of the route had a nice hard packed trail through the snow and was easy going but the first bit across the meadows and down the hill only had my old snow shoe tracks from Thursday and those were windblown enough that they were tough to follow in places. I figured it would be just as hard through the meadow on the way back so opted for the road.

C • Hike 1

Have some 6 foot icicles hanging off my back roof. It was fun watching them form today while I worked. I need to take pictures.

Stepper. No brace. Knee feels good. :)

Snowshoeing in the Wissahickon. I was breaking trail pretty much everywhere I went so this was really hard work. Majorly tired at the end and the long big hill which is now completely open was really tough to climb at the end. This was pretty much the "short hill loop" I used to run in 35 minutes. It's a little longer now since there are some detours around the logging activity.

I tried to do a little trail maintenance along the way - cleaning up debris and freeing trees that were bent over and stuck in the snow. Nearly lost it at one point as a branch I was tugging on had a piece under my feet that I hadn't noticed.

C • Glad you're ok 2

Snow shoveling. This snow is heavy! The six inches I just shoveled was just as bad if not worse than the almost two feet over the weekend.

C • Good exercise 5

Another round of shoveling trying to stay ahead of things since it's such a wet heavy snow. And it's only just now starting to come down hard. Yikes!

Round 3; started on my car this time so really about an hour.

Another half hour just trying to stay ahead of things...

Another round with the shovel. It is still coming down. And the occasional thunder is not particularly comforting!! So far I haven't seen any lightning but it's being reported in the area.

That may be it for me; I'll deal with things in the morning. Probably take some ibuprofen.

Core DVD. I almost wimped out but knowing Sandy A was doing it, I had to!