X-Country Skiing

My sister Teresa and her husband, Bob, have been avid cross country skiers for years. I've skied with them on an off, but never on a real regular basis. For the last probably 20 years they have gone on this annual trip to Canada in March for a 15 mile ski trip. It's up north of Sault Ste. Marie, and you take a train out into the wilderness and ski back to a lodge. Many of those 20 years I have watched their kids (when they were younger, of course), and there haven't really been a lot of years of was in shape enough to go.

Anyway this year she's been wanting me to go, but I don't have skis, so I've been kinda looking a little on Craig's List and Ebay to see if I could get something cheap. The trip this year is March 9th http://www.stokelycreek.com/view.php?pid=14&action=se&id=8


So I'll try to keep this short, because it's kinda a long story, but she found some extra skis so now I have skis, but I only have 2 weeks to prepare. She's a little nervous that I only have two weeks, but we think especially with this little snow storm today that I may still have time. From an endurance standpoint, not too worried, but it's been probably at least 7 years since I skied and I'm a little nervous about going up and down the hills.

On Saturday, I went over to her house. They live on 15 acres and have build a 1/2 mile trail that goes around their house that they use for running and skiing. I skied about 4 miles and it was so fun. I just put on my ipod and went, and it was a gorgeous day, so I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

I was going to go out on Sunday, but wasn't feeling that good and I was a tad sore from the day before, so I rested. Today I may go out and I want to go tomorrow. My goal is to get enough skiing in this next two weeks so I can be ready to go. I am a little nervous about it, but it seems like an adventure!

I'll also be keeping an eye on the weather to see if it's going to be decent up there. Hopefully it will be and all will work out.

Even if I don't go, I'm getting another way to exercise (awesome work out, btw) and burn up those last few weeks before lovely spring arrives!