Top of the Key

Day after Christmas, and man, not feeling on my game. After a few days of drinking, eating dark chocolate m&m’s and getting out of the normal routine, it’s starting to take it’s toll. I’m thankful to be on stabalizer, but still need to get back in line. Took Chirstmas day off, it snowed the entire day. Shoveled the driveway once, probably should have done it again. But man, so much snow. After a game of Cranium and Scrabble, I had exhausted my brain power. Crazy I know.

Today I did my brick. Rode the cranks for 19.5 miles which included 6 miles of z3, then ran around the block 4 times in my new YakTraxs. Those things are really going to help me stay on my feet, and not take a nose dive to the ice and break something on my body. Didn’t really alter my foot strike too much, and could feel the traction on the icey areas.

Also got a head lamp for running. They’ve come a far way since my first one, used mostly when camping in the white mountains. But this ons is light and bright for those early morning jaunts on the snowpacked dark trails of Boulder. Hoping to continue to recover this week and put in a solid 2 weeks coming up.