Winter!!!

So we woke up to a little dust of snow on the deck this morning. The kids were excited and I started thinking about all the things that I should have had done already. The race is on to get everything done before it's here for good. It was just enough to have to drive slow to work this morning and it will probably all be gone by noon today. Temps are pretty cool now and I am getting excited about training. We haven't been training yet this year. Busy with lots of other things, including possibly relocating, and also don't need to start training as early as we did last year.

There is a dry land race scheduled for this Saturday. I have been contemplating racing, but I have tons and tons of things to take care...but we'll see. I raced last year with Oscar on my bike. I haven't been on the bike since then and prior to that it had been about 15 years since I had been on a bike. So it's basically just a way to get some of this pent up energy out of my system. Since my bike skills are so "great" I am taking a big risk just joining and that's all part of the excitement as well. Last year my goal was to finish the race requiring no first aid for either myself or Oscar, we did it. The race is either 3 or 6 miles long on a straight road where we go out and when we get to the 1/2 way point we stop and turn around then head back home. So there are tons on head on passes and then there's the o so graceful turn around. Last year we stopped at EVERY team that we tried to head on pass. So IF I do it this year I will try another dog that I think would head on pass a little better. That's IF...