Snow

And lots of it have put somewhat of temporary change of direction to my training plan for this month. It has been extremely busy at work the past 2 weeks and training has been spotty with no pool time and runs on the treadmill at work, some weights/yoga and a Crossfit class yesterday....more about that later.
Snow removal in Grande Prairie takes a lot of labor/equipment and is a time consuming process....its like GP is one big parking lot! We don't "plow" our residential areas as they do "back east". We blade the ice/snow to the pavement, work it into a long pile (windrow) of snow, move that pile to the side of the road, usually the side without a sidewalk, and then push the windrow off the road being careful not to leave it in peoples driveways, not damage trees, fences, ornaments, electrical boxes, light standards, fire hydrants, for sale signs, garbage bins, parked vehicles, little kids etc. etc. Some areas require the windrow to be left in the middle of the road and another crew will come and remove and haul it away. This all takes time! We will not complete this task in days....it takes weeks. After our crews busting their butts working 24/7 for a full week now in residential areas, with all of our equipment and 20 pieces of outside equipment were a little over half way through the residential areas of the city! If we had wide roads, big lots, and no parked cars on the roads we could "plow" our roads but for the most part we don't and therefore snow removal after the amounts of snow we have had this month will take time!
Anyway as I said earlier, I did manage to get in a Crossfit session yesterday and took a couple of coworkers along for a nice lunchtime workout......well it turned out to be a little on the "extreme" end for Crossfit as it was "Filthy 50" day which means 50 reps of 10 different stations. Doing anything 50 times gets hard after about 20 so this was intense and got my HR into areas its never been before.....50 box jumps, 50 lunges, 50 jumping chinups, 50 shoulder presses...you get the picture! I like Crossfit for a bunch of reasons especially the no fancy exercise machines part of it! Just using your own body and some old school gym equipment...thats it! As the tshirt says...."I Don't Use Machines.....My Body's The Machine!" Free Intro Class at noon today (Saturday) at VO2Max!