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The first and third races were pretty easy - the trails were fairly well-packed and the snowshoes have cleats on them for more traction. That middle race was brutal. Ever run on very loose sand? It was like that. And those racing snowshoes don't work all that well when the snow isn't packed. No float, unlike my big wooden snowshoes. The temperature was also a factor in the middle race - it started at 16 F and was falling rapidly the whole time. I think it was single digits when I walked in my front door, and I live six miles away from where the race was held.

And I have no idea if Jerry visits Istanbul often. But yeah, it is a great photo.

LOL. We had a five-year-old in charge of cowbell at Sunday's race. She also was incharge of putting the sparkly stickers on the race bibs for those of us getting our Badass designation. Her dad's the race director.

Thanks for the vote for Jerry. You can vote once a day, don't forget!

I'm heading back to work at the park in 26 days and I anticipate not having a lot of time to myself for the first couple of months, so I I understand. Good to see you, though!

Really like the Nick Drake song. Never really been a fan of Loggins and Messina (maybe because my mom liked them...). Liked the last song, too.

Thanks, Peter. I know how hard it was to bypass that panda photo ;)

LOL, All three Delta Force movies were on TV late last night on some local channel up here. I only know because I fell asleep early on the couch and then woke up again at 1:45 this morning. when I'd been flipping channels before I fell asleep, The Delta Force was on and when I woke up, 3 had just started.

Thanks, Chris! And yeah, Jerry is incredible, amazing, inspirational, and humble. I'm pretty sure he could have finished ahead of me, but he chose to give Ann the moral support instead. And I'd never really spoken to him until this last race. So new friend made achivement unlocked, too :)

Snow is an excellent insulator, so I may actually be using less energy to heat the cottage than if we'd had a more normal winter. Of course, the record cold snap may have neutralized any savings by causing me to have to turn up the thermostat... You know it's bad when you look at your thermometer and it reads "12" and you actually find yourself thinking "Wow, it's kinda warm tonight" just because there are two digits in that readout and there's no minus sign in front of them. A few minutes later, I started laughing hysterically because I realized what I'd just thought.

Big compared to a chihuahua, maybe :) I consider him medium-sized at most. We think he's a chow/beagle mix, but no one really knows because he was a rescue picked up off a back road in Tennessee. 

And thanks!

We had another three inches of snow last night. At this point, anything under a foot is considered a dusting, but it put us over the 90 inch mark for the winter.

What is it with laptop adaptors lately? You and abobo both!