I have spent this week at a management retreat in the middle of the Yorkshire Dales in the UK. The Puppeteer knew I was going and that there would be no gym, no pool and about 10" of snow on the ground, so my workouts this week were modified accordingly. I was hoping to get a couple of runs in, but the roads were very icy, even when cleared of snow, so I enjoyed two hikes of about five miles each around Malham Tarn (a shallow glacial lake) and some stretching exercizes from Mark Verstegen's Core Performance book (
http://www.coreperformance.com/).
The scenery was magnificent!
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| Too icy for a run! |
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The frozen tarn
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At this point I did start to wonder if I was going in the right direction!......
....but I ran into some local ladies who showed me the way:
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A few ancient farmhouses dot the landscape
Including the one I stayed at: High Trenhouse.
Definitely somewhere to get away from everyday work!
These guys outnumber humans by a considerable number!
Also saw some amazing wildlife including a short eared owl;
fallow deer; pheasants; a merlin (I think!); some ravens
and an enormous number of rabbits.
Ah well, back to reality... another swim workout scheduled for tomorrow!
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