As you can see its still white here. In fact it was a white Christmas but as much as I love the crisp, clean er...snowy appearance of it all, where it's now shallow enough to run in, there lies a 4" thick sheet of sodding ice.
The road is sheet ice (so bad cars can't drive on it), the woodland trails are sheet ice, the track is sheet ice, the Deeside Way is sheet ice. Even the river has frozen.
In previous years this would not have presented a problem. In fact, I would have now been happily hacking away at ice some 500ft up something in Lochnagar corrie and wondering what kind of curry I would have on my return home but times have changed (due mainly to previous unavailability of ice - both meteorologically and financially..though the curry is a constant) and as my focus relies now more on being able to see the sodding ground, I have developed a new, slightly depressed, shoulder slumping hurumph everytime I see a snowflake falling. Its a multi-application 'hurumph' too! I can use it with equal effect when Nick gets excited about Griswalds Family Christmas coming on the telly ;)
So this is Day 3 without a run. I feel fat, bloated (ok, that could be turkey and After Eights..), lethargic and generally borderline psychotic. I've tried, but within 1/2 a mile it was obvious it was a really stupid idea. I'm now contemplating running around the ploughed field next to the house if its not also sheet ice..
On the bright side though, once my dad has been to visit today, we're off to Run4it in Aberdeen to collect my new offroad shoes that our 4 year old bought me for Christmas god love him! Went to try them before Christmas but the heel was far too roomy so they sent off for inserts from Inov8 for me. Today is the Grand Fitting. I'm also madly in love with Santa who bought me my new Inov8 backpack and Petzl Myo XP headtorch :). So much excitement!
This is all dependant on us getting out of the track as its now snowing in a biblical stylee once again.
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