200+ MTD

Running:

It's been a good month running so far.  For this week I mentioned Monday mornings run already in the last post.  Monday during my lunch break I continued my cross training with 20 minutes on the elliptical to warm up followed by extra weights, and stretching.  Tuesday I again went in the morning before work for a 9 mile run in 1:15:08.  It's back to cold again especially early.  Had to be careful for icy spots where the melting snow froze along the sides of the roads.  Wednesday I ran my hill repeat workout again.  This is the 4th week in a row I was able to do this.  I ran the out and back and 8 repeats of the hill in 1:05:13.  Again a slight improvement from last week.  The runs this week have pushed me to 204 miles MTD with a few more runs to get in.  All except 7.5 miles have been outside.  Not a bad number for January and certainly a good start to the year. 

Above is a couple of pictures of my training hill.  From down below looking up and above looking down.  You can get an idea for the steepness of the hill, but can't see the full length because of the turn at the bottom of the hill.  I would guess this is about 75 to 100 foot incline over .20 mile.  The .40 up and back repeats take somewhere around 3:30 to complete.   


Hunting:
Wednesday I got some good news from the taxidermist.  Today I will be able to pick up two deer that I brought in.  The one I shot in 2008 with my bow and the one I got last year during gun season.  I'm excited to be able to get these back in my possession.  I still don't have one deer I brought to a different taxidermist back after three years and a month.  Shows you how one taxidermist has totally been ignoring my job when you see how quickly they can really be done.  Last I checked about a month ago I was 8th on his list to be completed.  I'll have to go check again.