Snow & Mud

It's snowing here in NJ tonight. I feel as if the snow totally snuck up on us. There was some talk about a flurry or maybe some snow later this week, but as I left for the gym tonight there it was. Snow. I'm not a fan. we've been pretty lucky so far with only a light dusting a few weeks ago that melted before I made it out of the house. Now if it going to snow, that's as much as I am willing to endure.

Besides that there's not much going on. I've been working, working, working & getting fatter & fatter & fatter. So I stopped the madness, downloaded An old training app that I used to use religiously back in the day to my iPad and started fresh this month. Now I am taking it slow. Very slow. But I think that is the way to go this year. Not a lot of races planned, no crazy triathlons in far away states or through obstacle course like conditions. Getting back to the basics and in great shape is on the menu for 2013.

A few months ago one of my go to running friends signed us up for a mud run. I was so psyched & sooooo "I'm tough!" until my delicate ass hit the first mud obstacle, which was about 15' past the start line. I used to watch Bear Grylls on that show where they would leave him all alone on top of Mt Kilamangaro with two sticks of gum and a tennis ball & he would find his way back to Times Square in 4 days or something equally as ridiculous (think MacGyver in the 80s). The show was totally fake, because let's face it where was he charging the camera batteries out in the wild? Yeah, at the Four Seasons where he really went every night while he led us to believe he was sleeping under a bed of cow dung and bamboo leaves. However, I would watch this show & think.....oh I could totally be the female Bear Grylls. Yeah totally, unless there was mud involved or snow or some horrendous combination of both. Which isn't all that uncommon.

So last week when said friend asked me to do the mud run again this year I totally had a flashback to how so un-Grylls like I was on that day. You win mud, you are the kryptonite in this movie. Oh well, maybe I can hold the towels or extra change of clothes. The only thing good about that day were the hot firemen hosing us down at then end. Oh yeah, and did I mention I got lost in the woods. Not as tough as I originally thought........