As I am sitting here to write this it just started to snow. There is currently about 12 inches of snow on the ground which definitely makes it feel more like Christmas here than in SoCal.
After two days off I finally got to go out this morning for my first run of the trip at 7:30am. It was a perfect morning with a partly sunny sky and 33 degrees temp. I planned on running yesterday morning, but because we where out until 1:30am and I hadn’t slept in 43 hours I didn’t make it up in time...and it was also raining.
As a walked out the door on to the back porch and immediately slipped on the ice into a very uncomfortable splits position…at that point I should have walked back upstairs and crawled in bed. Instead I walked off the muscle pull and headed down into the park across the street. The house is right across the street from a park which is located infront of Lake Champlain. I made my way down through the park to the trail which looked fairly safe. I made it about 1.5 miles when I suddenly stepped on a piece of ice that quickly cracked which drove my foot 8 inches into freezing water.
After a few choice words I decided I had run far enough. I headed back as my toes quickly started to burn and then slowly go numb. By the time I made it back to the house my toes had warmed up so I decided to finish the run on the streets.
Over the last three days in Vermont I have gone snowshoeing for the first time. What a workout. The first day I went 2.5 miles and went sledding for the first time in almost 20 years. The second day I went out for 4 miles. I was definitely worn out the rest of the day. 
Today I went out snowshoeing one last time, but I wore a different pair of boots and I am now regretting it. We went to the Indian Brook Reservoir Park in Essex, Vt and snowshoeinmg for 3.2 miles on the frozen lake. By the time I finished I had a blister the size of a quarter on both heals.
