another warm one

 Yet another relatively warm gentle day today making for a pleasant 5 km on my meal break.  

Looping APK

 5 laps around APK again today.  Same weather as always lately.   The road had allot more ice but I only find that to be a hazard when I am walking.  

On the road again!

 5 km looping APK today on my meal break. 

Six on Sunday

 6 lap SS on the backyard trail Sunday logging another 5.6 km.    Another perfect winter day ,  fresh snow,  temps around freezing and no wind.   Snow was slightly wet and was balling up under my gator strap had to stop 2 or 3 times / loop to break it off.  

Satuday SS Trail

 The winter weather has been fantastic for time spent outside with a wee bit of fresh snow,   no wind ,  a little sun and temps hovering around the freezing mark.   Stretched it out a bit logging a 5.6 km SS on the backyard trail.   I was able to remove the shell and was down to running pants and a thermal shirt with a light tech t over top.  The feet were a wee bit cold ... was breaking a little trail without gators so a bit of snow got in the shoe causing wet feet.    

December 2020 Summary

 December -      88.6 km

YTD          - 2,194.1 km

Well that was probably one of my "lightest" months of running since I started blogging.   Inspite of this I was really quite active with other things so I really don't feel that I lost any fitness as a matter of fact the "constraining" is really a good thing.     There was a 5 day trip to Whistler spending 3 day on the Mountain.   After Christmas I came down with a head cold ...a few more days off.     With no races on the calendar and probably won't be until half the year is over I will more or less continue to do what I have been doing through the first quarter of 2021.   

December breakdown ,  17runs!

Rest Days  X 6

Sick Days  X  3  Whistler Video

Vacation X 5

Trail Run ( Shoes ) X 11 = 62.4 km

Trail Run ( Snowshoes ) X 3 = 14.4 km

Road X 3 = 15 km

Ski X 3 

NY Eve and NY Day - Snowshoe Running

 Both day I logged 4.8 km using my running snowshoes. 

NYE - Wore my large float SS to the trail head carrying my yaktracks and running snowshoes in a backpack.   Tried the first lap in shoes.  I  was breaking though every step so on the second lap I switched it up to my running SS.   I was wearing my Hoka Stension ATR 5's.  They are huge and barely fir in the bindings.  I was able to velcro the toe and mid foot straps just the heal but it was enough to keep them on.  

NYD - No new snow and a fantastic track didnt even wear gators.  I wore my old Addidas shoes and they fit into the running SS properly.  First lap I stopped and pruned a bunch of cedars in the SE corner of the loop.  It was almost impossible to get through this area having to almost crawl.   The run was after dark so I was running in a bubble of  light.  Although I was on an 800m loop that I have done thousands of times it was easy to not know exactly were I was....good fun.