Monday, 25 January 2010

On the rocks? No thanks!

I’m fed up with the ice. Hard as… er… ice? roads and bike paths are not for me. I don’t mind the snow, even the hard-pressed variety plus my spikes work fine on hard snow, even knee-deep snow is ok, but the ice isn’t that much fun. OK, so the spikes give a fairly good grip but I feel like I’m falling over anyway – I don’t think they fit my (tiny) shoes properly.

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Really, is this any good? And this path isn’t even sanded, it’s small pebbles about a foot-width apart.

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A few metres of tarmac here and there…

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…but barely wide enough even for my small shoes.

I did what was meant to be a fast 10k yesterday. Ha! With the ice it took me just over an hour. And this with a reasonable stretch of fast(for me) sub-5-minute/k pace!

Please can spring hurry up and arrive already?

2 comments:

  1. im with you there
    its mostly gone here except for the higher ground

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  2. Dave: Not fair! We're supposedly meant to get more snow! Anything up to 16 inches over the next 24 hours! Yay... :/

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