AT @ Snickers gap and DY open mat

Around lunch today ran from the vdot commuter lot at Snickers gap up to Bears den and around the general area. Tried and failed to find the continuation on the north side of route 7, found it on the way out it my truck. The fresh, powdery snow made it a difficult run to say the least. A couple hours later went to class. It sure is nice to have the body coming back finally, another of those workshop type classes, but I could do everything without major difficulty and even sat in thunderbolt which was physically impossible about 4 days ago.

DY morning buzz

Yesterday morning went to class after a weeklong hiatus for my poor, sad knee. It is mostly better after getting 50cc's drained out of it on Wednesday and the shot of cortesone. Class was fine, no major pain or anything.

DY open mat

Yesterday afternoon, a few hours after finding out Rich died this weekend, went to open mat class. Spent almost the entire class going over fine details of the namascar a and b poses. I would have enjoyed it but I was hugely depressed and my knee and elbow were absolutely killing me.

PY hot 5 and AT @ Greenbrier State Park, MD

Got up early this morning and went to yoga at Padma. Much different class from last week, she really kicked my ass. After I drove east down 40 to Greenbrier State Park, and picked up the AT there. Followed blue blazed from the vistor center up brutal steep hill to the trail, then south for a couple miles to some big rocks with a nice view. About 5 miles.

AT @ Ashby gap and Boga

Yesterday I waited for the snow and sleet to stop in the early afternoon and drove down 50 to the AT. Every branch was encased in ice, it was really beautiful. I went south and made it up above Sky Meadows, About 4 miles. Later had a fun boga night.

DY power yoga

Thursday nights class was difficult with the damn knee still all swollen up. It wasn't too hard tho so that helped.

DY yin

Last night tried to take it easy on my fucked up knee and went to stretchy yin class taught by Gina. I liked the class but my knee really, really hated it.

YT power hour

Monday morning drove to Purcellville for an hour class, still in the pavilion. Wiped me right out again as usual, then spent the afternoon in Glenn in DC.

AT @ Chester gap and DY open mat

Last Sunday drove down to Front Royal, parked by Front Royal lake and ran on the AT. Snowy for about half the route. It was up a hill and down to the stream on the other side, where I turned around. About 4 miles. A couple hours late went to open mat class that turned out to be a true workshop, mainly about arm balances.

PY hot 5

This morning drove up to Hagerstown for class. Christi took it easy on us today, it didn't totally wipe me out like it has every other time I have driven up there.

ACE spin

Yesterday at lunch went to spin class. Good but too short.

DY power yoga

Thursday night went to a real nice power yoga class. Fought my left quad pretty much of the class tho.

ACE spin

Stacey's class after work yesterday, the toughest one yet.

DY advanced vinyasa

Monday night went to class. Left quad was really acting up, prolly from the two a day.

Millbrook HS run and DY open mat

Last Sunday ran around Millbrook HS, tried to find trails behind the school, ran around the track, and ran a bit on the battlefield, about 4.5 miles. Later in the afternoon went to open mat at Dharma. It was a hard class, did a lot of inversions, almost to the point of exhaustion.

YT hot yoga

Last Saturday morning went to hot yoga at Yoga Time. The studio flooded last week so class was at the new gym nearby. Also Mindy woke up with strep so one of the students taught. It was an ok class, just not as hard as usual.

AT @ Manassas gap

Late this morning ran a very chilly couple hours on the trail, near Linden, VA, north of 66. There was a goodly amount of ice under the inch or two of new snow, made it kinda tricky. The temp with wind chill was around 10. Route was from trailhead to right before Manassas shelter, very nice, very challenging.

DY power yoga

Last night went to the first power class at Dharma. It was nice, hard but could be harder for sure. The vitamin I helped alot with the arm.

DY open level vinyasa

Last night had a suprisingly hard Wed. night class. Or perhaps it had something to do with my arm acting like a block of wood, who knows.

ACE spin

Last night had another nice spin class at work.

DY advanced vinyasa

Last night went to a pretty tough monday class.

DY open mat

Sunday afternoon went to the new open mat class. Turns out due to who all showed up it became a class. Not too hard and a little more laid back than usual.

Hangover 5k @ Long Branch

This morning ran a 5k in the bitter cold at Long Branch estate south of Millwood, A Shenandoah Valley Runners winter series event. It was ridiculously cold, the wind blowing like crazy, about 5 degrees with the wind chill. I had on 2 long sleeve running shirts, a hoodie, running shorts, sweat pants, 2 pairs of gloves and a knit cap on and I was still chilly. Time was a little faster than my worst race for the cure, which I consider a huge victory.

YT hot yoga

Yesterday morning started the new year right by driving to Purcellville for a class. It was brutal, perhaps not as brutal as the last one but pretty close.