SNOW!!!

I love the snow and we got loads of the lovely white stuff this month - yeah man!  I don't mind shoveling out the driveway, although it does take a lot of time.  Shoveling out in blizzard like conditions was pretty cool.  I know, I'm sick that way.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekgNOJ8bJy4

After all the shoveling is done, I get to cross country ski.  My Karhu Meta skis are make for for hiking in the snow, than smoothly sailing across the snow.  They are like any hybrid product, they aren't great at snowshoeing and they aren't great at cross country skiing, but they are adequate at both.  

I just did a run at Stroud's preserve - made the disasterous mistake of wearing my xc running shoes with 1 pair of wool socks - too much friction on the back of my foot and a nice blister effect half way through.  Also set my Garmin to pause when going less than 3mph - I kept looking down and seeing that very little distance was being added to the total.  I guess I was going too slow.  I did find a nice downhill...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_qHc4O7PlE

And of course some nice wild life - a bit hard to see the geese on the video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKt1U4oID6E