Cue the porno music please...

Mel and I have been doing Christmas shopping for each other over the past week. I thought there is nothing I really need as I have sexy wife, two cool dogs, have my health (knock on wood), enough training gear...I'm set. However, upon a little digging we discovered a few things I could really benefit from Mrs. Claus this year. Thermal socks for example...both Mel and I plan on doing some snowshoeing/x-country skiing this year so those would certainly be handy. Somehow I don't think my thin work socks nor training socks would cut it this year. Believe or not, when I first went out skiing last year with the gang, I wore a pair of those ankle high racing socks, covered by two pairs of argyle work socks! I forgot to pack my proper socks before leaving Nova Scotia. Needless to say, my toes were frozen by the end of the ski.

We, Mel has already boxed up the parcels and sent them off to our families out on the east coast. I'm Mel is good like that ;)

I read an interesting article by Sam McGlone last night. It was about training (surprise!), however she put it from the perspective of a dog. It touched on how training should be fun - how we should be excited to tear out the door for a ride/run or cannonball into the pool to start a swim. It was a good reminder of why most of us should be doing this...something that is sometimes lost in routine.

Training for me has been relaxing these past two weeks. No set schedule, no target heart rate, no intervals, just do what I want when I want. I have been really focusing on strength training and rebuilding muscle after putting the body to it's paces this past season. I am happy to be feeling and seeing some results of this work this past week.