Holiday Recap
I guess I took a vacation from work and from blogging this holiday. Here's a recap for anyone who cares or is bored. After Christmas Eve I kept plenty busy . . .
First up was Christmas visiting my Mom at the nursing home where she is recovering from breaking her hip. What I took away from that is an even stronger feeling that nursing home workers need to be paid better. I don't know how they do it day in and day out. On the way to visit Dave and I did a little skiing at the Greenbush trails. After visiting my Mom we went to Door County and skied at Peninsula State Park and the next day skied at the Reforestation Camp outside Green Bay. No real big days of skiing and we ended each day with good food so fun times with a little bit of exercise.
Then back to Madison where Dave went to work and I didn't. I stayed home and painted the living room (well, 3/4 of the living room). It was long overdue and I figured I'd already arranged the time off so why not put it to use.
For New Year's Eve we went skiing at McMiller as we had to go over to the Bike Doc to pick up the new skate boots Dave had ordered. Conditions were better than I expected (I always expect the worse I think). That was probably the highlight of New Year's Eve as we had no plans since we had originally planned to be gone. New Year's Day was really uneventful then we went to Minocqua on Friday and we skied a ton on absolutely perfect trails. Skiing at Minocqua reminded me of how awesome skiing can be. We skied just a little Friday when we got there. Then Saturday I skated 35k in the morning by myself which completely wiped me out and then got out after eating lunch for 10k of classic skiing. Sunday I did some easy skiing of my fave trails in the morning and then did a little classic skiing in the afternoon before heading back home. The trails were so amazing that it was hard to leave.
The biggest highlight of my week was actually last Tuesday when something finally clicked in my head and I figured out the V2 alternate. The timing of the pole plant has been plagueing me but Yuriy had me do this drill that finally clicked all the synapses in my brain into understanding. This whole skiing thing would be a lot easier if I weren't such a slow learner about anything that requires coordination. Oh well, I make up for it with tenacity.
First up was Christmas visiting my Mom at the nursing home where she is recovering from breaking her hip. What I took away from that is an even stronger feeling that nursing home workers need to be paid better. I don't know how they do it day in and day out. On the way to visit Dave and I did a little skiing at the Greenbush trails. After visiting my Mom we went to Door County and skied at Peninsula State Park and the next day skied at the Reforestation Camp outside Green Bay. No real big days of skiing and we ended each day with good food so fun times with a little bit of exercise.
Then back to Madison where Dave went to work and I didn't. I stayed home and painted the living room (well, 3/4 of the living room). It was long overdue and I figured I'd already arranged the time off so why not put it to use.
For New Year's Eve we went skiing at McMiller as we had to go over to the Bike Doc to pick up the new skate boots Dave had ordered. Conditions were better than I expected (I always expect the worse I think). That was probably the highlight of New Year's Eve as we had no plans since we had originally planned to be gone. New Year's Day was really uneventful then we went to Minocqua on Friday and we skied a ton on absolutely perfect trails. Skiing at Minocqua reminded me of how awesome skiing can be. We skied just a little Friday when we got there. Then Saturday I skated 35k in the morning by myself which completely wiped me out and then got out after eating lunch for 10k of classic skiing. Sunday I did some easy skiing of my fave trails in the morning and then did a little classic skiing in the afternoon before heading back home. The trails were so amazing that it was hard to leave.
The biggest highlight of my week was actually last Tuesday when something finally clicked in my head and I figured out the V2 alternate. The timing of the pole plant has been plagueing me but Yuriy had me do this drill that finally clicked all the synapses in my brain into understanding. This whole skiing thing would be a lot easier if I weren't such a slow learner about anything that requires coordination. Oh well, I make up for it with tenacity.
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