Active stuff

The weather since Sunday evening has been, quite frankly, minging. But that is one of the peculiarities of this part of the world - one day we have clear blue skies and temperatures into the 20s in mid November and the next, a 15 degree plummet in temperatures with snow down to 1500m. So we have spent the past couple of days mainly working, but we did manage to have a brief run along the lane during a weather window yesterday afternoon which was the first time I had properly 'run' for quite some time due to my ongoing itb/glute issues. But I have been encouraged by the lack of pain after a couple of walks with decent ascent/descent over the past couple of weeks so thought it was worth giving it a try. I have also changed some of the stretches that I have been doing which also seems to have made a big difference. The run was only 6-7kms on a pretty flat track, but I couldn't have done that 3 months ago without considerable pain but I had no discomfort at all yesterday! Excellent! I am finally getting somewhere and am most likely going to put in my entry for the 20km 2011 Trail des Citadelles next week :-)

Today, we awoke to a hard frost thanks to a clear night. It was dry but the forecast was for more rain this afternoon. We had to grab a roadie ride while we could so we donned the winter riding clobber and headed out for a very pleasant 70km/700m+ undulating circuit which took us 2h45m. Full stats are not on 'the usual site' as Garmin Connect appear to be having problems and the site is currently down.