Snow, glorious snow
Dec. 28th, 2007 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjSure enough, the 3-4 inches of new snow yesterday made the x-country trails at Colby really delightful today. (No new grooming, just powder on top of the old stuff.) This was good for two reasons: I got to practice some decent technique on decent snow; and because it brought more people out on the trails, I had to concentrate on looking ahead, not down at my feet, so I'd have advance warning for giving right-of-way. Got in two hours of skiing today (plus about another hour total of walking over to the campus and back, since the transportation logistics were still ... disrupted).
I have now fulfilled my personal pledge to get in an equivalent amount of exercise over vacation as I would have done in an ordinary corresponding period at the gym. And I'm confirming last year's opinion that I like cross-country skiing a lot more than downhill. (In addition to simply being able to do the one and not the other these days.) I like the ability to just go out and do it, without the need for resorts and expensive equipment and whatnot. (Ok, the trail grooming is nice, but not technically necessary.) I like having the continuous activity, rather than the dash-and-wait of downhill slopes and lifts. I like the ability to combine it with closeness to nature, which is a lot harder to feel in the middle of a tree-cleared downhill run.
And I'm just about ready to be done with vacation and get back to work. But not quite yet.
I have now fulfilled my personal pledge to get in an equivalent amount of exercise over vacation as I would have done in an ordinary corresponding period at the gym. And I'm confirming last year's opinion that I like cross-country skiing a lot more than downhill. (In addition to simply being able to do the one and not the other these days.) I like the ability to just go out and do it, without the need for resorts and expensive equipment and whatnot. (Ok, the trail grooming is nice, but not technically necessary.) I like having the continuous activity, rather than the dash-and-wait of downhill slopes and lifts. I like the ability to combine it with closeness to nature, which is a lot harder to feel in the middle of a tree-cleared downhill run.
And I'm just about ready to be done with vacation and get back to work. But not quite yet.
