Winter has never really arrived in the valley here in Pocatello. There's plenty of snow above 6,000ft. I don't have to mow, and I don't have to shovel. Life is good, right?
I like to have snow on the ground in the winter. And I like to see my breath when I walk out to the car in the morning in February. That hasn't been happening.
But it's nice not to freeze my butt off on my way to a dark, early morning swim workout!
If only I was taking advantage of warm lunch hours and running 4-6 miles every day. Then I'd be making some progress towards my goals. However, it seems like there is always something going on at lunch the last couple of weeks.
This weekend is the annual yurt trip! I'm very excited about the trip. But I'm not excited about probable bad snow. And I'm sure I'm not in the aerobic condition of years past that allowed me to cruise uphill with no problems.
I haven't been running in a month, and my biking has been minimal; mostly because I can't recover properly from the swim workouts, and getting up at 0430 every day isn't working very well. And if I did wake-up, any workout would be interrupted for 15 minutes while I change and feed Noah at 5:22 or 5:46 every morning (those are his standard options for wake-up times; very strange that the clock always seems to say one of those times!).
My dilemma is if I go to swim practice before I go to on the yurt trip. I could hit swimming from 8-9 Saturday, and then leave the house at 10 for the yurt trip. That would put us at the lift at 10:30. We take the lift up most of the way to the top, skin to the top of the mountain, then ski down to the yurt to drop our gear, then skin back up about 2,200 feet for another run. If we do that 2,200ft climb three times, we'll be more than ready for bed at 8pm! Hopefully we'll have enough left in us to get in a short night run under a bright half-moon sky.
Yurt details if you're interested: http://www.isu.edu/outdoor/yurtcabin.shtml
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