I was excited to see the large expanse of snow on the frozen lake with visions of snowshoe routes beginning to dance in my head! The snow started falling within minutes of my arriving which brought a big smile to my face. I have a trail marathon in the Napa Valley on March 24. This is shockingly soon when one considers that a standard road marathon of 42KM (26 miles) takes significant training which I wouldn't be too fussed about. But take the same distance and run it on single track trails with significant elevation gain and you have a race that now takes a fu*** of a lot of training and I have 2 months. It's kind of funny how these races sneak up on a person, it seemed so far away when I signed up for the race. Now... not so far away really. I'm running about 2 hours relatively comfortably right now but that ain't 4 hours or 5 hours which is my wildly optimistic goal. Lets call it a "Stretch Target"... ya... that's it.
Mom mentioned that she hadn't seen the wolves on the lake lately, especially since she saw the cougar walking along one of the neighbour's dock and according to her wolves tend to stay away when cougars are about. Which is probably not a bad strategy but MEH... cougars schmoozers! I'll stay out in the open, I have my bear spray and happy thoughts. :-)
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