There was snow

[nineveh_uk]

I am back from my holiday. It was good. It was very relaxing in that for a week I was too busy or tired to think about anything at home or work, and it was exhausting in that for a week I was too busy or tired to think about anything other than what I was doing. My internal monologue for the skiing part can be basically summed up as follows:

balance balance OK balance left right left right glide glide hill ankles edge edge edge edge edge flex fuck edge OK relax ankles weight weight ankles knees weight weight weight weight slip pole edge down down down knees in IN IN IN shoulders that way lichen poles ooh footprints argh CONCENTRATE turn glide turn turn turn ice turn edge edge weight! edge edgeedgeedgeedgeedgeglide pole glide glide etc etc.

And so on, with occasional singing. 'The Hills Are Alive' is excellent for navigating those downhills that are within ones capacity and will actually go better for relaxing. The beginning of Chesterton's 'Lepanto' can provide momentum up the steeper bits. I have eaten my bodyweight in food, don't need to see porridge for another year, enjoyed the sauna, and, inevitably, had a cold for the second half of the week. I managed relatively little reading, slept well when I wasn't blowing my nose and once I had remembered to turn the radiator not down, but off, spent a week away from the internet, and have started, but not completed, unpacking.

I had a great time.

Photo on LJ...

Comments

[naraht]

Welcome back! That sounds absolutely fantastic to me.

[caulkhead]

I am glad you had a good time. I know what you mean about relaxed but exhausted, too. That internal monologue sounds remarkably like mine off-piste (with the addition in my case of the bit that goes "Look at the GAP not the tree, the gap not the tree.. the tree... tree TRREEE! arrrgh)

I'd like to try cross-country one day, but worry that I'd lack the stamina.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Welcome back!

*waves*

(Also: jealous).

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it! Scenery looks breathtaking, though with all the technique to master it was probably hard to notice it all the time.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Don John of Austria is going to the war! (I admit that's all I can remember of Lepanto - it gets all muddled up with How Horatiius Kept the Bridge. Evidently I should take up cross-country skiing).

The pictures look fabuous. I'm suitably envious.

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

Sounds lovely!