MishMash

A bit of a mishmash this week. Winter sports night, a dance, sun, rain, trails, roads, skiing, we've got it all! 😉

Monday night was the Mt. Ararat Winter Sports Awards evening. It was nice to see all the kids recognized, but man, the majority of the coaches could have tightened their speeches up a while lot. Aie. 

With the time change, it is back to darkness in the early morning again. So chose to run the cart paths after dropping Sam at school and before going into work. How is it possible it was windy in all directions?!? 💨💨Bright and sunny above and semi-frozen underfoot. (6.0 miles)

Wednesday, I worked from home and didn't manage to get out the door until just before 1:00 pm. Ran the powerlines. Bright, warm and a bit windy. Also very very soft underfoot. Skunk cabbage emerging and two mourning cloak butterflies flitting about in the sunlight. (7.0 miles)

Beautiful day on Thursday, and after finishing work, I did the grocery shopping and then headed home to take a walk. Decided I'd combine a few more errands and the walk, and headed to the library and the dump to drop off the recycling. Ryan joined me, and we got in a nice walk on the Gone Fishing trails before we headed home. (2.76 miles walked)

Rain started overnight and through lunchtime on Friday. I had to do some work anyway, so sat at the computer for a few hours, got a few errands done and then after lunch and a bit of sitting on the couch, I finally pulled myself up and got out the door around 2:00 pm. Ran down to the river and back. Soggy, misty, damp, dreary. Water water everywhere. (7.0 miles)

Ryan headed over to NH Friday afternoon as he, Kendra and Michael were planning to ski at Sunapee on Saturday morning to close out the ski season. So of course, Sam and I decided on ice cream for dinner 😂😂

That decision might have come back to haunt me during Saturday morning's run, as I felt decidedly unenergetic and sluggish. Maybe som real food for dinner might have been a good idea... Oops! But a cool, crisp, bright, calm morning to be out tromping in the woods nonetheless. Headed out around 7:45 am. Pavement was a bit slick in the shade as were all the bog bridges, and all the mud was semi-frozen in the woods. Misty fog rising above the roaring river, and birds calling overhead. (10.0 miles)

Later in the day, after dropping Sam and Rohan off at Lauren's to hang out and get ready for the evening's dance. It was so nice out, I figured I might as well enjoy the afternoon and stopped to take a walk at Skofield Shore. Trails were a bit squishy and sloppy but always good to get down to the ocean, and I do love the views. (1.47 miles walked)

Ryan got home around 6:15 and we ate noodles and relaxed on the couch for the evening while the girls had fun getting ready together and dancing the evening away 😍😎

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After a beautiful day on Saturday, the rain came back overnight. I really need to stop with the afternoon ‘long’ runs here 🤦🏼‍♀️ but this rainy windy weather we’ve been having is not doing wonders for my desire to get out there. Didn't head out until 2:00 pm once the skies started to clear. Trails were a bit sloppy but stayed mostly out of the wind at least. Two bluebirds flitting about out on the the Powerlines but otherwise quiet. Ran into Ryan around mile 9 and joined him to get a few extra miles, which was much appreciated as I was definitely lagging a bit and having company made the miles go by much easier! Bright beautiful sunshine as we passed by the Heath, and then we got poured on in the final half mile 😂 (12.25 miles)