Training Log Archive: Swampfox

For running, I linked up with Tyler in the afternoon, and we headed down Crow Creek. For a change, there was almost no snow in the air, just a few flakes fluttering down now and then. Open areas were mostly snow-free where we were, while the woods were not. A little higher up and everything was snow.

We ran for a while, just low key style, but then I suggested we cross Crow Creek and run on the other side, on the north slope where the forest is deep and capable of hiding beasts.

Then, suddenly, it was no longer low key, and a beast with large antlers charged! Bad move by the beast, because we ended up with the antlers and the beast ended up with a lesson. I guess the beast had never had anyone launch a kamikaze attack on it, chanting: "Blood makes the grass grow!"

C • Shed 2

I am trying to remember when I last saw the sun. Was it last Saturday? 2 weeks ago? Last month? A year ago? Snow, on the other hand is much easier:

Snow!

More snow!

The snow is never stopping!

I ran at the end of the day, and, yes, there was fog, and there was cloud, and there was snow on the ground, and there was snow on the trees, and there was snow in the air. Where there was moose tracks, there was snow in the moose tracks.

What was cool, however, was earlier: I went riding in the afternoon, and when I could get a look at the lower elevations over in west Laramie, it somehow looked quite odd. It snowed overnight, so that there was snow coating roofs, bushes, and colder parts of yards. But by mid-morning it had all melted off.

I had already decided I would ride over into west Laramie anyway, so that's the direction I headed. When I crested the overpass that goes over the railroad (the railroad goes north-south, and is the dividing line between Laramie and west Laramie), I was amazed. Everything and every place in west Laramie was coated in snow, and the sidewalks had been plowed. There was no snow in sight in Laramie behind me. And the railroad was the *exact* dividing line between snow and not-snow. It seemed entirely unnatural, and yet, there is was.

Definitely winter.

C • Weather 6

What use is Spring anyway? It only fades into Summer at some point. So, instead, we could celebrate more Winter today, yay! And--bonus--we don't even have to pay for air conditioning!

Ran for 2 1/2+ hrs, and, just like yesterday, there was snow in my face every step of the way.

Long run on trails, very foggy with reverse winds, and snow falling every step of the way. More than halfway through May and yet it seems June can not come too soon. Simply lovely out there.

O' pass at Remarkable Flats, 12.4 kms worth, or something like that. There was chilly wind, so I had on a long sleeve t-shirt and a light jacket plus knit cap. That was a tad too much when the scattered clouds racing by admitted the sun, but maybe not quite enough when the scattered clouds racing by strafed my location with stinging grapple. At least it wasn't cold November rain.



Encountered one moose--a yearling--on the way to #24, and saw a few mule deer, but otherwise that was it. I think everyone and everything else was in town looking at a steam locomotive downtown.

It was thoughtful of the course setter to offer a nice stretch of trail to #22--we don't get a lot of that in the States.

Streamering.