I love winter. I do NOT love winter rain. This Sunday was a real demonstration of why I hate winter rain. Our trails had just gotten nice and snowy. They were packed down. Then the rain came, along with the January thaw and turned the trails to this: There was usually a swath a few [...]
Climbing
Ice climbing
It’s brutal cold in New Hampshire today. I looked at the weather at one point and saw a windchill of -17 F. So I wanted to share some pictures from last weekend, when we spent the morning ice climbing under blue skies and relatively mild temperatures. I hadn’t been out ice climbing since 2008. I’ve [...]
Running
Cold cold days
I don’t really enjoy the January thaw. It makes me freeze when the seasonal weather comes back. It doesn’t help that I’ve been running again. I get back from my lunch run and spend the rest of the day freezing. I don’t usually realize how cold I was during my run until the shower afterward. [...]
Races
Olde Salem Green Snowshoe Classic
On Saturday I participated in my first snowshoe race ever. I ran a 5k in Salem, MA called the Olde Salem Greens Snowshoe Classic. I really enjoyed it. The group I ended up running with for a long time felt more like a weekend exercise group than a group of people actually racing each other. [...]
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