Catch up

Hiking was great last week but also a celebration! Our last hike before Christmas, so we all wore Santa hats and had a shot of Sambucca at the top of the hike. Great day.

As Christmas falls on a Friday we moved our hike to Wednesday (today) however the temperature has dropped to -30 celcius with some wind which is quite cold.

We will try again next Wednesday to see if we can make it out.

Merry Christmas to everyone!

Winter hiking.

Made it out for a short one last week, still had trouble with my boots. Back into the podiatrist for another modification.

Up at and it early this morning as we moved our afternoon to a morning hike to fit as many of us as we could in. Temperature was not bad but it was blowing snow pretty good and we had received about 5 cm over night. But we knew it would be nicer down in the trees,

With my long underwear on, a fleece, my Northface soft shell and a wind resistant shell I was too hot!

Had a beautiful hike and glad we went in the morning as the weather has definatly had a turn for the worse thia afternoon. My right foot had a moderate cramp which was uncomfortable but not debilitating like the last two weeks! So we will keep this and give it a go next week.

Hiked the actual creek for a bit but had to pull off due to flooding. It has frozen very smooth and thought we should of had our skates with us.

Still need to do some learning of the GPS so I will post when I know the actual distance.

I remembered my camera!

So on my way to my hike last week I was very preoccupied with remembering my camera and GPS. Both of these items I have forgotten so many times I can't even tell you. So on my way out the door I am grabbing touque, mitts, phone, socks, water, camera, GPS.
All set.

As I am pulling out of my subdivision I realize that I had meant to also bring my poles and get using them some more. Oh well, I have been hiking all summer without them, one more day won't hurt. So I don't turn around. I keep my eyes on the road and head off to Shelley's, thinking thank goodness I was able to remember my camera!

I pull into the driveway and begin assembling all my paraphernalia. Touque, mitts, phone, socks, water, camera, GPS and boots. Boots? Where the **** are my boots?

I have forgotten my boots!

Who goes for a hike without boots!

So in I go in to break the news to the girls. We try to figure something out and decide to go for a smaller hike with out too many hills as my winter pull ons are not built for walking long or difficult terrain.

We do a quick 4 km in about 50 min and had a good time.

Pictures to follow! HA HA.

Our very small hill that I had to shuffle up. Dumb boots!

Nancy and I.

Nancy and Shelley

Blogger extrodinaire!

I have been fiddeling with the settings on both my blogs and am amazed at how far they have come in such a short amount of time. It seems like it is a matter of finding the right information and steps as to not confuse the snot out of me.
So keep checking as I am on the lookout for the new "thing" to make my blog just that much better.

Just a note. We officially won our first curling game last night, and played with three again so lots of sweeping. Such good interval training!

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Killer Hill

Friday was a nice "little" 10 km jaunt that took us across the creek 4 times. Meaning that we got to go down 4 times but back up 4 times as well! And in the process doing Killer hill twice! I keep forgetting to take my camera and really wish I had because now without the leaves on the tress you can actually see across the ravine to the other side of killer hill, really giving you a look at where you will end up.
Cross your fingers, I will remember this Friday.
I will be taking my GPS from now on to get exact mileage and we will time out Fridays so that should be nice to see.
I am also going to bring my poles next week. I am not used to the snow and although I felt ok, I also felt a little out of control a couple times. So we will see. Amanda and I think we will use poles on leg 2 anyway so I midaswell get used to using/carrying them.
Nancy has joined the Friday hike and what a pleasure to have her.
I have been asked to attend something next summer which will move my adventure race to another year but I am really looking forward to this new opportunity! I said the road would be bumpy! I don't have too many details but will keep you posted when I know more definate plans!
The one thing I have learned, is you never know when a great opportunity will arise and somtimes you need to jump at them and changes your plans!
I will still be committed to the Death Race Leg 2 and am nevously excited for that as well.

It's been awhile...

Even though I haven't posted I have been moving! Amanda kicked my butt a couple weeks ago and I paid for it for a couple days.

I jumped on the WII fit last week and to my surprise am down 10 lbs! Who knew. I don'y have a scale other then my WII fit so I don't check it often. Nice surprise though.

Back to it this week. Will hike Fri, crossing my fingers for nice weather although I probably can't hope for it to last much more. We are in November.