It is STILL snowing here. Can't someone please make it stop?!
The dogs and I trudged out this morning, me in my snow pants and boots and hat and hood and layers and yada yada yada, and did a good hour around town. We can pick our way through most areas or walk in the street where there aren't many cars, but there are still occasional stretches where we are forced into the deep snow. It is really bad now because underneath all the new snow is really, really bumpy old snow that has been stepped in and frozen and melted and frozen again. The fresh fluffy powder on top is like the layer of leaves over a bear trap. Your foot goes down and it's anybody's guess as to what's going to happen. Sometimes your ankles end up doing bizarre and unusual things.
Suffice it to say that my right hamstring was not happy with me after my leg slid around more than I intended while in one of these patches. I was also surprisingly sore from yesterday's pretzeling at the osteopath. And I had a big project I needed to finish for work today, so that and the snow and the hamstring all combined to make me put off my workout (which we all know by now is NEVER a good idea, and yet I still can't always follow my own advice).
I finally went to the gym around 6:30 and felt a little fragile just walking my warmup laps around the track. An elliptical machine opened up and I made a snap decision and jumped on it. A lower-impact workout seemed like a good idea, but I got my heart rate up and definitely felt the effort. What's really cool is that the elliptical will measure distance, so you can "run" 3 miles on the elliptical. What's even cooler is that you can crank out a pace per mile that you could never match if you actually had to run it!! In 30 minutes, I covered 3.16 miles for a 9:30 pace per mile. I didn't run that fast in the 5K race I ran in October! I knew it was basically BS, but I was still tickled by it.
Tomorrow is another chance to hopefully finally meet this Kim person and take a live Pilates class. At this point, who knows if we'll get snowed out again?
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