02-27-2011 Run

Worked 98 hours last week. Wanted to do nothing sooo bad! But then I thought about all the people that work 40 hours at a desk job and then feel like they need to sit there and watch tv all weekend and I said F that!! My heart don't pump no kool aid!!

I made a couple of attempts early in the run to find a way deeper in to the mountains, but the powder was just too deep. I found a lone set of cross country ski tracks and I made my own trail by doing multiple loops following them.

02-24-2011 Run

02-22-2011 Run

02-21-2011 Run

This run felt really good, other than my perpetual groin injury. I feel like I am actually starting to get some of my fitness back!

02-20-2011 nothing

The past 2 days of heavy snowshoeing at work and a little bit of pain in my ankle from it helped me to decide to skip my long run tonight, just to be safe. Plus I really don't have the energy or motivation after working 13 hours on a Sunday. I really need Sundays off or Saturdays and Sundays for that matter!!! I hate not even getting one day a week to plan a run and get away from this project. You know its getting bad when its hard to remember what day it is, for several days in a row.  (I know I had two snow days this past week, but its not the same. I still have to dink around at our office (a big garage we kind of set up some tables etc. in) and I am still pretty much stuck in Lakeview)

02-18-2011 Run

Got another snow day today. It would be sweet if I weren't stuck in essentially the most remote town in the lower 48.

02-16-2011 Snowshoe Run

Got a snow day today, so I got to have some fun. I headed for Mt. McLoughlin with hopes of doing some snowshoe running on the Pacific Crest Trail that cuts across part of it. Unfortunately when I got there, there was waaaayy too much powder for my little snowshoes. Probably a good 30" or so of new snow in the past 24 hours. I took about 5 steps and decided to go elsewhere. I headed back towards Klamath Falls to hit some trails at Moore Mountain where there was only maybe 5" of new snow. All I can say again about snowshoe running is that it is freakin hard. Going downhill is not that bad really. I got in a really nice sprint. But going uphill is an absolute killer, and I hit plenty of hills today. Garmin Connect tells me only a little over 1000', I'm gonna argue with it and say a little over 2000'.

Here is a little picture of my truck in the parking area to give you a general idea of what it looks like in the area after a fresh snow.