The world is not crumbling but these are unsettling times.
I’m happiest the few, or less than that, hours a week that I’m on cross country skis in the mountains. I’ve been to Snow Mountain Ranch, Devils Thumb, Eldora, Steamboat Springs, Minturn, and Frisco. If I could I’d be out there three times a week but it’s been only once or maybe twice. Still with more than a dozen days on the snow this year, and two more months of winter to go I’m just happy to get out on the trails.
I haven’t been liking my job for a couple years now–and yes it relates to the bigger picture, as the work I am involved with can have political implications,and a lot of top-down pressure–but have found some focus and for now I press on.
However, what I really want to do is coach runners and endurance athletes. And leave the politics and rat race behind. Soon.
INJURY UPDATE
I’ve had several visits to a local physical therapy clinic and that has helped me along. After starting up a little too fast in December (building to some 50 minute runs, just a little over three weeks after starting up again), I had to take another week off at the end of the year and started up about the first of January. Got in a whopping 51 miles last month. But they were smart miles, keeping the duration under the radar so as not to irritate my hip and glutes.
Yes, it’s epidemic because you hear about it all the time, but my glutes were not activating properly and that likely led to the misalignment of my SI joint. But I’m now running up to 30-35 minutes, five days a week, and building up ever so incrementally.
I’m still in recovery but by March (early, middle, or late?) I should be over the worst of it and can start building up with mid-spring goal of an hour or so a day. Getting there.
rrunnin234 