Let it snow

The snow keeps coming. Wow. We live in the midst of mountains. I know I should expect these things. Usually we have a bit of a melt that reduces the build up. Not his January. My "snow shoveling as cross training" routine has taken on new proportions. My drive-side snow pile is over 8 feet. Pushing champagne powder is easy. Throwing it up and over the pile is.... well, it SUCKS. Fynn is being lazy. The little mouch is 4 months old. At least he's useful providing a perspective for the photog.



I am pooped. Up at five and off to the gym for 40 minutes on the tread mill, rush home and make Rotary by seven. Put in a load of shovelling after work for good measure then off to masters swim. OMG. donig too much shovelling was my own doing. We have a new neighbour moving in tomorrow and their drive-way and front walk needed to be cleared. I know I'd appreciate it if I were in their shoes.



This weekend includes a swim clinic with my coach. I'm really looking forward a few hours of attention on technique. I think if I learned how to site correctly I could ignore technique. Call me Mr. zig-zag.

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It was cold and snowy this morning. Daughter Sophie got lucky as Mum decide to keep her at home with her and Fynn. They had a great day doing crafts, baking, and watching a classic Disney movie.

My neighbours were moving today :(. They only moved in last summer and they were gardeners extrodinaire. A great resource to have handy. My neighbour was telling me all the little things that had happened to them in the last few days such as: having a car accident, breaking a tooth, etc. I told him it was an omen not to move. Then a gal comes walking down the street telling us that we need to take the lower road to get out. I live in an area of BIG STEEP hills. My neighbours moving van (semi-trailer) had jack-knifed at the top of the street.

I managed a short trainer ride, 30 minutes of shovelling snow, and masters swim. I can barely keep my eyes open. I start a new training rotation this week. It will be good to have a change.

Of the blogs I follow this one is definetely one of my favourites and she wrote what has become a rare entry.

Swimming

monday & tuesday's are always too busy. i still managed a trainer ride then masters swim. i try to have some semblance of balance in my life. between work, family, training, rotary, friends, you get the idea, i can't believe i have enough time to write this bloody blog.

i did have one very guilty pleasure today. i went and saw my rmt (massage therapist) this morning. g is not a "fluff and fold" type of therapist but rather a "this is going to be good for you" so suck it up princess. followed by a bwa-ha-ha-ha.

if you care, tonight's swim wo is below. it is pretty straight forward and is a good measure of fitness.

400m loosen on 8 min.
24 x 25m im order on 40 sec.
4 x 50m kick (fast) on 1:45
4 x 75m stroke drill on 1:45 1500m

Main set (free or mix stroke)

2 x 50m on 50s
4 x 50m on 60s
6 x 50m on 70s
8 x 50m on 80s
6 x50m on 75s
4 x 50m on 65s
2 x 50m on 55s 1600m

1 x 50m on 80s (fast as possible)
2 x 25m on 40s (recovery)
twice through 200m

total 3300m

Winter Running

i love having four seasons.

coach scott had a nice 1:30 run programed in for today. after being up too late two days in a row i decided to sleep in today. this meant the run would have to wait until 4 p.m. . a mixed blessing. the scenery on the trail was spectacular. the down fall was after 5 p.m. when the temperature plunged and i froze on for the last 30 minutes of the run. i'm doing ok now but that may be the two glasses of cab/merlot talking.

last week was 11.5 hours and this week is a bit more. i'm really enjoying the challenge of trying to invent time to put these wo(work-outs) in.