Winter is All About Playing

Just loving the winter play time right now...some might call it training, but that seems to imply lack of fun, and it's been all about the fun factor lately! From back country skiing, to back country snowshoeing, Roxy has been sleeping very well!

I still seem to feel my foot injury, from the West Coast Trail run in August, from time to time. It is however at a point where I can almost completely ignore it, which I guess means it can't be that bad. Basically, as long as it doesn't get worse, I'll be fine. I have found that wearing a more stable running shoe, The Montrail Hardrock, has made a huge difference with this lately. Anything less has left me limping for a bit afterwards. It's all about the right foot ware...have I mentioned that I Manage a running store? North Shore Athletics? On Cleveland Ave in Squamish?

Have a very Merry Christmas everyone, hope the fat guy is good to you!!

Merry Ho Ho,
GR

P.S. That's Roxy's pre Christmas gift you can see her wearing...and yes I am proud of the fact that my dog now wears a jacket!

Quickie

I'm not one to complain, at least not THAT much, and this shouldn't be taken as complaining, more a point worth mentioning...I am still getting tingly toes from the 'winter' adventure race! I just wasn't built for the cold...well I may have been at one point in time, but frostbite is not something you ever seem to fully recover from.

Anyways, winter is too much fun to let a little thing like numb feet stand in the way! I rounded up three friends for another pre-work ski tour this morning. Up at 5:30am, out the door for 6:00am, pick everyone up and at the parking lot for 6:50am, about 1.5hr skinning up and 35 minutes back down, with two dogs running hard to keep us in sight the entire time. Roxy hasn't moved a total of one square meter in the twelve hours since then!

I was still at work in time to open for 10am and put in my eight hours. After work I headed to the gym with a friend for some strength - core work. All in all, a solid day...I even managed to get my Christmas presents in the mail for my family back in Newfoundland. They might just make it on time this year, which would be a first for me!

GR