Breakfast

Ticking off the days in proper fashion, little bit of easy skiing, some hard stuff too. Skate skis, touring skis, bikes, whatever it takes to get through winter in one piece. Fresh tarmac and dirt can't come soon enough.

Fuel

I get into funks in the middle of Winter, sometimes they are productive, like multiple 3+ hour ski sessions, Peaks Trail to work and back, or super efforts on the skate skis, other times I get the urge to eat a whole bag of gummy worms, I haven't bought those ever...Odd how getting out of the comfort zone for efforts becomes a visit to the new Area of your head for fuel, I guess all of that gelatin produces something in my brain. Maybe I'll go to the store before I ski today and get some gummys. Or, just stop resting and do something.

Start

The leaks are getting fewer as the work piles up. It's not hard after you start. Starting is the hard part, after that it flows forever.

Steps

Old efforts in a new direction. Good steps to start. Good week. Riding, skiing, whatever. Clearing out and dusting off the keys to put in the locks.

Dishes

First

The best laid plans end in solo time. Crystal clear head, clogged legs. Or, loaded after. The best part? Pedals.

Odds

I made it up and down last night. It wasn't the exact loop I wanted. I took a wrong turn at some point and went uphill an extra 20 minutes, fun descent, tree skiing on super narrow, lightweight gear. As always, the dark freaked me out, not as much as other times but solo trips still scare me a bit. I don't know if I should do more of these to allay the fear or less to lower the odds of getting eaten by a mountain lion. I try to rationalize that this is unlikely...

Option

Good hard Nordic Skiing is equal to about double that time riding a bike, or so certain learned athletes tell me. I’ll take the conservative line on this- 1.5:1 -skiing isn’t that hard. I’ll try that tonight, a 90 minute ski mostly uphill with minimal descending coupled with my fear of the dark and I just might have a full workout. Winter is fun. I hope I don’t get eaten.

Not that cold...

Close your eyes, think about Nordic skiing while standing in a freezer dressed in the wrong clothes, it's that cold, I'm going out b/c it's better than sitting on the trainer.

Nocturnal Mission

Going uphill in the dark is pretty cool, it doesn't take much skill, just point the skis up the skin track and go, easy, right? Sort of. Night time missions are the out of choice when the rest of the day is booked. Quiet, really quiet, that was my favorite part. Look for more of these, Pete has it dialed pretty well.