Training Log Archive: jjcote

Augh! These were the worst ever. Charlie had a couple of 25-lb dumbbells set up on the floor to use as handles, so that you hold onto the bars instead of putting your palms on the floor (this works better for him because of his wrist problems). I don't know if it was that position, or residual fatigue from shoveling, but I barely made it through these, having to pause a couple of times.

With Nancy, Charlie, and Rhonda at Ratlum, doing part of what I think Charlie calls the Art Sweeton loop. Down to the bridge, then straight to the top of the camel field, across the top, up the hill, and back on the trails to Big Down Marsh and up to the house. A somewhat longer excursion than we had planned. Day-old crusty snow, and we were breaking trail the whole way. On downhills especially, there was a tendency for the tip of the showshoe to get caught under the crust, but I managed to not do any face-plants.

AOWN: Nancy spotted a pair of vultures sitting on a little cliff above Ellen's Pond, and all four of us managed to get surprisingly close before they took off. Very cool.

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