Training Log Archive: tdgood

Decided not to pass up the opportunity to go skiing with all the snow. I went on the "trails" behind my house. Trails is in quotes because they are not very trail like currently.
The snow is more compacted now so you don't sink a foot +. Now it is a reasonable 2/3 inches. There is a 1/2 mile'ish loop behind my house and I decided to do that. It is fairly flat with only two little hills. The first part is a general down hill and the second part is gradual up hill.
I started off ok but the trail had a lot of down fall on it. The first loop I moved several large broken branches off the trail. I stopped the watch while moving braches aside. Skiing was tough as there were down trees. Some I had to go around, others I could step/ski over. The first loop was slow going as I was making the trail (literally) and getting a feel for it.
My skiing was nothing like they were doing at the olympics. On TV they are on wide groomed trails without a chance of hitting a tree much less having to ski over one. I had to constantly change direction which made it hard to get a rythym going. I also doubt the olympians have evey got stuck in green briar while skiing like I did.
I fell once in the second loop (going down the little hill) and realized just how deep the snow was. My arrm sunk all the way in and I had a tough time getting out to where I could even sit up. Later loops I skied into the woods to avoid falling.

1:50 (front of house to the trails)
13:58 (first loop, very slow).
11:30 (2nd loop, Include fall time).
10:01 (3rd loop, I am getting the hang of this, actually gliding now)
9:03 (4th loop, Hey, I am actually skiing).
13:43 (Skied up the other way to see what the possiblities are for later skiing. Had to make my trail again.

Darcy Snow blowed while I shoveled. Unfortunately I spent a fair amount of time scraping/chipping. A snow plow had come up our driveway and back out with snow. This meant there was less snow to snowblow but more to chp out from their tire tracks. Also spent time digging out the heat pump again.

My Brother Chris spent the night. He had to be in Baltimore at 7:00 for work and we are closer. He shoveled part of the driveway last night and again this morning (0400) when he left.
At 1000 the snow is really coming down hard now and major accumulation.
Snow plow came at about 0900 and did a good job of clearing the oourt from the last snow. He finiished what the others didn't do right. We will have to dig out all the mail boxes again.

I had planned to go shoveling today but it didnt' stop snowing until after dark. We got another 20 inches of snow. I will have to shovel tomorrow.
FYI: We have gotten 4 feet of snow this week.
Since I hadn't been running in a few days I hit the old treadmill.
Started off easy then went ot my normal pace.

7:50 7:33 7:30 7:32

The other neighbors came home and asked if we could help with their driveway. Back out we went. The snow was more compact so wasn't quite a deep. It was much easier to snow blow. Darcy did their whole driveway while I dug through the snow plow pile.
My arms are plenty Tired. The good news is we are suppose to get another 12-20 inches tonight/tomorrow. At this point there is no where to put the snow. I went back out today and shoveled the tops of the piles down some so I can still through the snow over them.

Rough Total on Snow Blowing/Shoveling 7 hours.

This doesn't count on smaller times like shoveling the heat pumps, plowing through the snow to fill the bird feeder.

We through out some old bread and hot dogs today. There was a huge hawk eating the hot dogs.
We through out some old cake and a Fox came last night and ate some of it.

C • Hawk! 4

The Snow plow came around 11:00 pm last night and did a really poor job. Three plows came but one one worked at a time. They spent 40 minutes trying to do the court but without much success. They cleared 1/2 the court but not the part closest to our driveway. We now had a huge wall blocking everyone's driveway.
Darcy snow blowed some additional areas while I started digging. My Neighbor and I dug our both our Driveways.
Darcy snow blowed the third neighbor out from the opposite side he was digging.

Darcy Finished Snowblowing our immediate neighbor's driveway while I shoveled.

Total snow shovel/snow blow time: 4 hrs.

I went over and helped with a third neigbhor. (ok I did most of it).
The fourth neighbors were gone. I did one snow blow pass of their driveway and ran out of gas as I was coming back. I stopped for the evening.