Heart Rate Monitor, Snow, & Dog

Heart Rate Monitor, Snow, & Dog: I hope your winter holidays are going well. I'll get a few skating updates up within the next couple of days.

I have spent the last few days in St-Tite, Quebec, with my aunts and uncles and cousins. I have made incredible efforts at avoiding consuming the mountains of Ferrero Roche & Lindt chocolates and piles of made-in-Quebec pastries & sugar pies.


Yummy holiday cookings and eatings- eating time in the heart of Quebec for about 25 people in my family!
My training partners for the last few days have been a brand new heart rate monitor, fresh coats of fallen snow, and a friendly dog who loves to run with me.


As much as I love dogs, I have to admit that this one is really stupid. While I run on the country roads where cars fly by at over 90 km/h, he runs beside me on the wrong side of the road, just begging to get clocked by a car
As much as try to I shoo him away to send him home and as much as I yell at him to get to the right side of the road, he keeps doing what he does best; marking his territory, catching up to me & running into my legs, and running to the next farm to mark his territory.


My training partners- the dog, the snow, and my heart rate monitor
He repeats this cycle over and over. The cycle is sometimes interrupted by the odd car that I waved to slow down so that it doesn’t plow into the unsuspecting and clueless dog that runs in a zigzag pattern across the road.

The best way to get rid of a dog that won’t stop playing with you and running with you is to throw some snow balls into a field that is 2 feet deep in snow. At some point, the dog will focus on trying to find the un-findable snowball while you sneak away behind the snow-banks and out of sight over the rolling hills.


This is Léo, my cousin Isabelle's dog

A few of my cousins and I

One of my many winning hands of cards- I usually destroy all who dare step in my path in a game of cards