Full Body Workout

My midweek workout this week was comprised of shoveling snow! You may not think this counts as a workout, but let me tell you, this was some of the heaviest snow I have ever shoveled and I have shoveled a lot of snow in my days. I normally like shoveling snow and, yes, it could be considered a chore with a healthy dose of fresh, winter air to go with it, but when you take 7 inches (that's the word on the street, probably exaggerated, but we'll go with it) of nice fluffy snow and then you dump an inch (complete guess) of freezing/mixed rain on it, that 7 inches gets really heavy. That's what happened to me. I procrastinated shoveling it in the morning when it was fluffy, so by the time I got home at night, it was the heavy sludge. My abs/back muscles felt like they were going to rip apart as I shoveled the stuff. I had to stop every few minutes for a break; if the neighbors were watching (most of them didn't shovel their walks), they were probably laughing.

I did learn my lesson the next day it snowed and though I was a bit later to work than I wanted to be, I shoveled a clean path, salted it and came home to a nice clean walkway!

Not the Stroudsburg we know and love

We had somewhat of a warm spell this week, so there were no snowy morning runs in East Stroudsburg this year. I got in one morning run, but I was a little overheated in my tights and long-sleeve T with a jacket over top. I wasn't too courageous in venturing all that far from the hotel, so I did a couple out and backs to places I am familiar with - the Wa-Wa, the hill up 10th Street and the Main Street. The only snow I came across was a severely melted pile at the back of a parking lot.