Oh look a hill...Let's run up it with snow shoes on!

Been a few days with lots of stretching. The foot is feeling much better. Took it out for a test on the snow shoes.

Found this. Decided to run up it a bunch of times. Good Fun. That was at the end of a couple hours in deep heavy snow. The temperature was great for being out. Way better than the last snow shoe. But the heavy snow made things pretty slow going.

This picture doesn't really do it justice. You can't see the top!





In other news. I picked up a sampler pack of beer. It contained beers that I have had before, but I did try something new. I tried my hand at pouring a Black and Tan.

Here's my result. It was much better before I took the photo. A little slow getting the camera out. Not too bad for my first try I thought. Not a huge fan of Guiness but this certainly made it much better in my opinion.

Stupid Injury

My thoughts on training lately are quite different than in the past. In an early time of the year I would be trying to get in long hours of slow work. I've come to realize the benefits of some shorter work that is slightly above the aerobic threshold. My choice for this work is usually running. I find this accomplishes a couple of things. One, a great workout without spending a whole lot of time. Two, it's cross training so you get to use muscles that you don't normally use in cycling.

Then comes the problem. I haven't been running as much recently as I was last year while training for the half marathon. Which has now put me out of commission for a couple of days. I put in a relatively quick 10km this past Sunday. Felt great, decent time for my current fitness.

By the end of the day Monday, I pretty much could put any pressure of my left heal. The pain I was experiencing is due to an inflamed Plantar Fascia. Not so much pain as just annoying. Most of Monday night was spent stretching that out as much as I could. I can walk on it again today. Just not full pressure. I might give it a try on the trainer tonight. Perhaps I'll be running again by the weekend.

All for now,
Rody