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We thought we were going to have a pretty good Cruiser turnout this morning, but for various reasons (sick Cruiser, late Cruiser, Cruiser without Yaktrax) Bill and I were the only two that ran. I’d scheduled our run for later than usual to avoid the windchill warning, and that proved to be a pretty good […]
I haven’t done an installment of Friday Favorites in a while, so today I’m going to focus on a few new fitness products I’m enjoying… Now that the dust from my gym renovation has settled, I picked up a Lifecycle spin bike from our local Leisure Fitness. Yesterday I put five clients on it for […]
I don’t want to say, “I told him so,” but I told him so… Back in mid-December Bill went out for a run just before it got dark. I had suggested that he go running while it was still light out because there were patches of snow melted on the trail that would be dangerously […]
What comes down, must get shoveled away! Fortunately I don’t mind shoveling, too much… This morning I waited until 8:30 to shovel the driveway because when I got up the temperature was 2° and the wind chill was -15°. I think it had warmed up to a balmy -10° wind chill by the time I […]
This morning I was torn… I woke up and a quick check out the window showed dry pavement and 30 degrees on the thermometer. With a forecast of snow on the horizon I couldn’t decide if I should run before I started seeing clients or after. Since my next opportunity to run wouldn’t be until […]
The first time I heard about Yaktrax was back in 2007 when running with a friend, make that, trying to run with a friend on a very icy and snowy W&OD Trail. He was wearing something on his shoes that reminded me of a pair of tire chains. He confidently plowed ahead, while I dodged […]
