Training Log Archive: Leanimal

First ski of the season and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. In fact it was great. Of course it was just great to get out on the skis! Not a lot of snow but the resorts are all open and offering some free skiing to get the season going. Temp was around -3 at Plateau des Glieres and the trails were a bit soft but not too bad. Two wipeouts - not bad for the first ski of the season. One was just catching a tip on the side as I tried to ski on the best part of the trail and the other I just lost my balance to the outside which I take as a good sign that I am committing to my ski. I could really use some tips from CoachLD and Goose on climbing the steeper inclines. I just seem to lose my rhythm and do a bit of flailing. I don't feel like I don't have the gas but my technique (what there is of it) seems to go out the window.

Here are a few pics. Unfortunately we were in the cloud and not above it.

C • Fantastic! 3

Weeanimal is home sick so another indoor workout. We are both going stir crazy.

Thank God for those 1 minute youtube videos on how to do just about anything. I thought this might take forever but in just a few minutes I was able to give us all an idea of what FB looks like in a puffy brown dress.

Your welcome!

C • Nice! :) 14

Yin with Phatty. OUCH! But so good.

This is for the folks who insisted on seeing Weeanimal in her "favourite" dress. You will all be happy to know, although maybe not as happy as me, that she fell for Phatty's line about the other kids not feeling special if she had such a nice dress on at school so we got it off of her this morning. I am responsible for the crown. Well, it was actually a full family affair with Phatty doing some colouring and Weeanimal decorating with stickers. I think it completes the outfit. It was also a struggle to get her not to wear that to bed.

And Coach LD she did end up sleeping with me last night. She was scared after she swallowed a sticker (a really hard one too) so Phatty got the couch and I got the princess in the puffy brown dress.

C • He he... 10

Yuck. How did I last this long on the pavement. Well I had some company. I ran over to a friend's house to take her one year old for a run while she got some cleaning and prepping for christmas decorating done. She is also pregnant and probably should have been sleeping but cleaning it was. Eliott and I ran along the water on the bike path until we got to the circus in Sevrier and stopped to look at the camels, llamas, boars, horses and ponies grazing in the grass. The weather was the pits. Cold, damp and misty. The clouds were really low so no views. Running was really the only thing to be doing today but I was getting chilled near the end. Treated to a nice homemade pizza lunch then had to run to get Weeanimal from school and was a bit late again.....I think the maitresse hates me.

C • delinquent... 2

C • Paddles on the wall 2

Headed out after Phatty got back from riding and Weeanimal and I did some hiking....her in a REALLY shiny brown dress with bows and flowers and beads. A gift from someone and not something that I am happy she found in the back of my closet. Now she is going to want to wear it to school. As if I didn't fit in already. The french will be horrified. She also managed to catch the attention of several neighbours as well by exclaiming "Regard, ma belle robe!"

C • We want to see the picture! ;) 17