Last week was horrible in terms of May weather. We sometimes have brief snows in May in Calgary that last a day or two, but this week it was Monday – Thursday and it was still freezing on Friday.
Bike:
The snow and frozen puddles were not something I wanted to bike through. I’m not that hard core in the commuting department yet, so I bussed it Monday – Thursday. Friday was bike-to-work-day and the snow had mostly dried up, so I donned plastic baggies under my shoes, a buff under my helmet, and ski gloves, as I had done last month. I only made it part way up the hill, with 4 lamp posts left to go, but it was still a good ride. The sun shone the wind was light, and there was no snow. I tweeted about the ride, and Buzz the DJ invited me call in to 90.3 AMP Radio for a brief chat live on the air. Neat.
Run:
– Last Sunday I ran about 80 minutes on the pathway and into Nose Creek Park near Dawn‘s place. I walked too much and felt awful afterwards. I will take Ultima and a gel on my next long run. I will. At one point I ran alongside a train, which somehow inspired me to keep chugging along.
– Despite falling snow I ran Wednesday at lunch. Did two repeats of the curling club hill and felt great. It wasn’t bad weather for February.
Swim:
Last Sunday I took Little Runner and a friend to the Y and got in a few laps myself. It wasn’t much but it’s a start. That’s it.
Other Stuff:
Yesterday I cleaned out my place of a lot of stuff I don’t need.
– I had a bag of milk jugs, cartons, bottles, stuff with refundable deposits, so I gave those to the dude who fishes them out of our dumpster.
– I had a big bag of other recyclables in my car trunk (my townhome complex doesn’t have a blue box program yet).
– Earlier in the week I had stashed 2 bags of old clothes in my trunk, too.
– Now that I have closet organizers (thanks Dawn, who recommended CLOSETCO!) I have been unpacking boxes, so I had a back seat full of collapsed boxes.
– Dianne and Derek came and took the big extension ladder I had borrowed to paint my stairwell.
– Friday I read about a book drive the Firemen were supporting for a charity sale for Servants Anonymous, so I grabbed all the books I had culled through that I hadn’t disposed of in the move – 5 boxes of books! I was loading those into the car around lunchtime yesterday when my mom and step-dad Ed showed up.
Ed wanted to go to the zoo. He joked that he wanted to “see his relatives”, but really belongs to a photography club, and the recent assignment is to find letters in nature. I dropped him and his camera gear off at the zoo – does that count as recycling? Then I continued on to the Goodwill depot (clothes), the fire hall (books), the recycling depot at the grocery store (blue-box worthy materials).
After all that you think my house would float away, but no, I still have more stuff to sort through and organize from the move.
In the meantime, I’m looking forward to celebrating Mother’s Day today. All the best to you and yours!
All Downhill From Here 