Humbled

I bared my soul yesterday.  It was a hard post to write, but I did it and I was very unsure of myself.  Very unsure after I hit that publish button on the top of the page.  Very unsure a half hour later when my phone started buzzing with emails.

I am truly humbled by the amount of support and the kindness of people.  The number of kind comments I received, the number of emails of support.  It means a lot to me.

I write this blog to keep myself accountable.  I didn't really think or realize how touched I would be by the people who read it.

Thank you.  Your kindness while I was baring my soul, is truly, greatly appreciated.

Although I stated in my blog yesterday that I would run sun, rain, snow,  or sleet.  I didn't actually count on it happening right away.  We woke up this morning to snow, it was snowing quite hard and I don't have winter gear for running outside.  It was also slippery, by 9am we had heard multiple police, fire and ambulance sirens and elected not to go out in it.  Not to drive to the gym and just stay home.

Snow at 9am this morning.

I kept my self busy by prepping meals for the week.  I made a huge pot of marinara sauce, for tonight's dinner with two more dinner portions in the freezer.  I mixed together a meatloaf, put it in the pan, wrapped it and put it in the freezer for later this week.  Measured out my hummus by weight and points for my lunch.  Made a salad for lunches, made my own home made Baby Gonach veggie dip, tidied the house and did some knitting.

Nothing smells better than a marinara sauce simmering on the stove top all day. 

Around 130 I was getting a little antsy and feeling bad that although I was being productive I wasn't earning any activity points.  I decided to bundle up and shovel the driveway instead of sitting on my butt for a while.  I headed outside and found that the snow had tapered to ice rain, it made shoveling the white stuff a little more challenging and it took me twenty minutes to clear off our driveway and apron.  I was absolutely freezing by the time I came in.  I'm going to have to break down and get myself some cold weather clothes.  A little while later I looked out the kitchen door as I was tiding it up and couldn't see anything for the layer of ice over the outer windows due to the ice rain.

A layer of ice over the windows on our enclosed front porch.

I'm back to work tomorrow after a two week break over Christmas and New Years.  I've packed my breakfast and lunch for tomorrow, planned our dinner and will be taking my running shoes with me to get a good walk in at some point in the day.  No excuses!

Run Clinic Cancelled

This week's run clinic was cancelled.  We've had some very inclement weather for our neck of the woods, and last week between Saturday afternoon and Monday afternoon, it didn't stop snowing.  It was due to the snow that Run Clinic was cancelled, it was too icy and slippery.

 I realize for some people that the snow isn't a big deal, and that is true.  IF you live in an area where you are used to snow and people know how to deal with it.

Snow is not our friend here, we so rarely get any that when we do, it seems as though the rest of the country laughs at us and the way we cope with it.  However, when you go from this:

Saturday afternoon when the snow had just started.

To this:

The backyard swing covered in snow.

and this:

Having to dig a path so the dog can go out.

I think it was justifiable to cancel Run Clinic.

I'll be doing some running this week as I have the Vancouver Hot Chocolate Race to do on Saturday March 1st.  Hopefully mother nature cooperates and the snow will be all gone by then.

Snow!

I know, a weird title for a blog post but for the past 52 hours or so, that's all that we've had, snow!

I went to weigh in on Saturday morning, it had been snowing but nothing had really been accumulating much.  My weigh in went well, I'm now down 77.8 pounds. Yeah!  After weigh in I went home, changed into my running clothes, grabbed the dog and off we headed for what I call our "wog" (walk/jog)  I figured the dog would be accomodating as the snow was starting to stick and he loves to run in the snow.

We only went around the block once, as the sidewalk was getting slick and I slipped a couple of times coming up the hill, so back to the house we headed.  The rest of the day was spent doing the grocery shopping and then the ton of laundry.  By noon it was really coming down outside so it was decided we would have an inside day the rest of the day.

We woke up early on Sunday and lay in bed watching the gold medal hockey game.  It was exciting to see our men's team join the ladies as gold medal winners in hockey.   We were supposed to go into Coquitlam today but with the snow coming down and the roads bad we decided to stick close to home.  We took Angus for a walk around the block.  It was so cold and snowy.  This is what our back yard looked like by mid afternoon.

I don't think I'll be going for any "wogs" in this kind of weather.