Tales of Trails, Mountains and Rocky Roads

Life has a habit of throwing us curve balls and over the years, I’ve certainly learnt to adapt and to maintain my optimistic outlook on things. This generally happens when I’m in control, not that I’m a control freak by a long shot, but I do like things to be orderly and to be completed within a reasonable time frame. As soon as I arrived home from Javelina at the end of October, I knew that I needed to renew my passport as it wouldn’t have the full 6 months before expiry that is required to access the USA again in December for Desert Solstice. It was one of those things that I should have done during the summer months when travel plans hadn’t been confirmed, but with Andy being away so much and with having to deal with Brandy and Wilson’s regular visits to the vets along with a whole multitude of other things, I never got around to it. I applied to renew online which was meant to reduce errors and speed up the process – the average time quoted for renewal of a British passpo...

It’s 2 weeks since Javelina and I have to say that my body seems to have recovered ok and I was back running by the following Wednesday, albeit only 3 miles or so at an easier 9-minute mile pace. By the following Sunday, I was back up to 7 miles and having picked up the pace for a couple of miles mid-run, I was happy to see that I was running a relatively comfortable 7.35 pace. I’ve since received my next block of training from Adam in the lead-up to Desert Solstice 24-hour race on December 8 th and whilst the mileage is low, the intensity is high which will hopefully benefit me next month. Having arrived back home in Leduc just over a week ago, I was greeted with much colder weather and it is pretty much certain now that winter has finally arrived. We had some snowfall a few days ago and with frigid temperatures of -10 even during the day, it’s pretty slippery outside on the pavements. The cold weather really doesn’t bother me and I still run outside, but with some of my ru...