Training Outdoors

QUOTE OF THE DAY
‘These instant judgments are related to intuition. This ability to quickly grasp the essence of a situation – whether it involves meeting someone new, selecting a television program or surfing the Internet – comes from that higher part of the Indigo Child’s mind that’s involved with intuition.
Many Indigo Children are “holographic learners.” When someone is talking, the Indigo Child “scans” the other person and receives their information, like a computer file being downloaded. The Indigo child must then wait for the person to stop talking about the information that has already been downloaded and digested.’

TRAINING – SCIENCE RANT
13.2 miles of trail running in sub-10 minute miles. Sunny and hot (for me) – much solar radiation helping me work on my cancer-tan.

A few days ago, Jo emailed me a Sound Science Initiative Alert – which is something from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Frankly I didn’t know what to make of it – and spent some time reading about the issues. Basically it points to data that threatens the habitat and existence of Polar Bears.

Maybe its a bad thing for a species at the TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN to die off?

What kind of cascading effect will this have on our gorgeous planet and the oh so delicate balance of nature? What is this teaching us?

Happy Friday all!

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“He understood that modeling the incoherent and vertiginous matter of which dreams are composed was the most difficult task that a man could undertake, even though he should penetrate all the enigmas of a superior and inferior order; much more difficult than weaving a rope out of sand or coining the faceless wind.”
~Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins

TRAINING
Feeling rather squirrelly after a day in the office……I head out to the Sanitas trail – headlamp switched on – tunes blaring….loud, louder, freakin’ L-O-U-D. Preferring always to FEEL rather than hear the music, I crank up the volume until my eyes bleed.

Last Sunday morning I woke to pitch black conditions and very still air. The temperature hovered at 18 degrees. I left the house with shorts and a Wiki Max top and watched my breath escape my lips like a heavy San Francisco fog. Standing still provided a warm feeling but moving even an inch in the cool air caused my hair to stand on end. I embraced the cold air with ambition and determination. A few quick steps and I knew my body would be on its way to a warm buzz. A soft glow canvassed the sky from downtown Columbus and the dim light would be my only company for the first hour and a half of my run. The grip of the cold dark night gradually gave way to the encroaching day only to reveal loaded snow clouds. I found myself stamping through soft powder for the last hour. By the time I had made it back to ground zero there was a little over four inches spilling over the top of my shoes. I spent that last 4 miles wishing for spikes.

Yesterday was a late night. Having worked an evening clinic in Denver, arriving home at 10 pm with child in tow. No afternoon workout yesterday….grrrr….

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I started to see how women think, how they have an artistic way of forming things,
like carvings, sewing, any female art… That’s what I started realizing:
that women have real important roles… I realized that women can do a lot.
Women are very capable. They have been very capable for a long time,
But it is just now that their capabilities are coming out in the open.”
~Oopik Pitsiulak
Inuit Women Artists: Voices from Cape Dorset

Goooooood morning readers.

Here’s my first crack at blogging – covering my life and training adventures leading up to the North Pole Marathon. Tell me what you think. See my North Pole Application at:

http://www.yourrunning.com/
story-athlete_mountaineer_river_guide_and_mompreneuer

TRAINING
Managed to get in a long hard bike ride yesterday. It's snowing this morning - our snowshoes are chattering in the basement. Just saw some kids using cardboard for snowshoes and string for their bindings! Clever and perfect floatation.