Get Fit (Again) February - Week Four

 The Last Week of February.... 

Started off super warm. Like, above 0°C before noon kind of warm. (Remember how we had -50°C mornings two weeks ago...? Yeah. Welcome to Saskatchewan...) So warm I figured I couldn't NOT get outside... but I also figured EVERYONE ELSE IN ThE CITY would also be getting out side and swarming the trails... So I decided to get out of town for a bit.  Of course I had to GET out of town. 

This trail looked promising - like it had been well packed down - there were other, older tire tracks... 

Packed though it may have been. it was still pretty deep, and drifted over in a few places and now melting and was a bit of a slog... would have to find an alternate route back to the Meewasin Trail!? 

Roads south of town were pretty clear. I'll have to get the Salsa road ready soon! 

long shadows as late afternoon turned into early evening. 

Whose shadow could that be? 

Sun setting behind the Queen Elizabeth II power plant.... It wasn't as dark as it LOOKs in this photo! 

Tuesday morning I had an appoinrment that required me to get up super early... well... for me. I can't remember the last time I left the house BEFORE the sun came up. How does everyone else do it!? 

I didn't think these existed anymore!? 

In the afternoon Keira and I rode to an optometrist to get her eyes checked and a new prescription - so we can finally get her a new pair os glasses to repair the ones that keep falling apart. 

Wednesday we walked over to Broadway to pay for some glass frames she'd picked out earlier and drop off the new prescriptions. The new glasses cannot come soon enough - the current ones fell apart AGAIN while we were walking home and the micro screw that held them together disappeared into the snow!? They are now being held together with wire and gorilla tape. 

Also on that trip we heard a terrible wracket somewhere up ahead of us and I started looking up and asked Keira if she could see it. She asked; "See what?" I said; "the Woodpecker"She said "THAT'S A BIRD MAKING THAT NOISE!?" She had heard it, but had assumed it was some kind of machine making the noise. Sure enough, a block later we spotted this bird up a pole. From the distance we saw it at I thought it might be a Northern Flicker... but looking at the blown up photo, I'm thinking it's a downy woodpecker....?

Thursday, 25 February. my birthday. 

I didn't go far today. One trip downtown to Seasoned Fusion Tastes - an Asian restaurant that we picked up a meal from...

And then Amanda and I walked over the the Mall on H - which is really only about two blocks... 

And picked up (vegan) Ice Cream Cake from Fable Ice Cream AND donuts from Darkside Donuts!? 

Friday it got cold all over again. I walked downtown with Keira. We stopped in a place to get Keira some glasses. She'd been in previously with Amanda and seen some glasses she'd wanted as sunglasses, but didn't have a prescription. When we went in they said they couldn't do it... so... we didn't get any. Also stopped at the library. Didn't take any pictures. 

Saturday I was in a bit of a funk and it was still really cold... Like, not -50 cold... but still cold enough. I forced myself to get out for a short ride, thinking I might feel better. 

I didn't... 

It was just grey and I felt tired and had a migraine coming on and just overwhelmed with too many things I felt like I needed to do and was getting none done in the process... 

Sunday I rode with Keira to Irish Dance class. 

... and that was February... I don't feel like I got any fitter. But I did get out and get a bit more fresh air and excercise than I had in January... so... that's a start. 

This last week I did get out more than the week before - and more than any other week in February. 

As I said... a start.