10 Km Wine Country Race

 Sophie and I ran the 10km Wine Country Race today.  Sophie smashed it with an 8th place finish overall, and 4th female.  After taking considerable time off from running earlier in the year due to her stress fractures, she has come back strong.  45:36 chip time.

I went into the race with the plan to run my splits sensibly and consistently and not blow up.  I was happy with a place of 2/55 for my age group.  My official chip time was 55:11.  Not a PR, but not my slowest 10km either.  I'm running faster than I was 10 years ago. 

My pre race breakfast was a banana and half a granola bar and about 1/2 a small Tim's coffee.  Just about perfect.  After the race, Sophie and I went to Cora's for a fantastic breakfast.  

Raising Ski Babies

Raising ski babies has been an incredible amount of work but rewarding. Especially when they are grown, can put on their own gear, will ski with us (or not) and everyone is happy. Sophie heads back to university soon, so it was great to do something together today in the mountains.

It was a beautiful day!

Running

 It's minus 22 degrees Celcius today. We've been in a deep freeze for several days. I told myself if I only ran for 20 minutes today that would be enough.  I need physical activity for my mental health in such a big way.

Running in freezing cold weather, if dressed appropriately, can be done.  With the exception of my hands being cold in my gloves, it wasn't horrible.  Not exactly enjoyable, but not terrible either.  I'm off work for the next 10 days or so, and this is my first official full day off.  It's already making me a bit stir crazy so it was good to get out no matter the weather. 

Ski Day

With Sophie at UBCO, she has her own season's pass to Big White.  So, it's just the three of us skiing at Silver Star this season.  The mountain opened up in late November this year, which was the earliest we have ever skied. 

Conditions have been great, and today it was a bit chilly at around minus 13, but the snow conditions were perfect.  We stuck to Silver Woods where the crowds were fewer and lift lines short.

5 weeks out to the BMO Vancouver Marathon

 Training has been going quite well apart from a 4 day break from running last week due to my left Achilles acting up.  I gave it rest and Ibuprofen and it seems to have settled back down.  

We also drove up to Silver Star today to clean our gear out of our locker.  The season is over and time to think about spring :)

A Silver Star mini vacation

 For the second year in a row, we booked a few nights at Silver Star in the Snowbird Lodge.  We love the idea of not having to rush around and drive up in the morning to ski. The freedom of waking up and deciding when we want to go out and start skiing when we want to come in for lunch, and going out after lunch when we are all warm and fed can't be beaten.  Vic and I also purchased new ski poles (very exciting).  Our old poles were over 30 years old.  We do get our money's worth.

Here are a few pics:

Dirty Feet - Trail Run 5km

 So much fun doing this little 5km trail run.  Good to experience a real race again after so much COVID-19 lock down closures/race cancellations. 

My first trail run, Fynn's first run - period.  He just just started running about about 3 weeks ago with him and I thought a little race would be good motivation.

He had some moments during the race (wanting to quit), but he didn't and I am so proud of him.  We are signed up for the next Dirty Feet 5km in Vernon at Predator Ridge in October!

Our times:

 Vic 32:14.9
Me: 34:57.5
Fynn: 41:48.8