This week started off good with a great 10 miler with the Davis Trail Running group on Tuesday - then WHAM! Wednesday afternoon I crashed with a cough and a fever. DANG! I was so hoping to get over 20 this week, if not closer to 30 for the week, but Wednesday and Thursday were out of the question and Friday wasn't a lot better, even though I could somewhat function. So this morning I decided to make myself get out and try to make it above the crappy crap for a little while, my sister wasn't feeling like running so my brother-in-law and I took my wife up Farmington Canyon for her first winter run up there. In the inversion it was warmer than it has been, but still cold, and the ground had a quarter inch thick crust of ICE that was pretty slick. 
I was actually trying to do a ninja move there... My wife had a pair of Altra Eve's and had forgotten the Snow Trax which would have been very useful on those minimal-tread shoes! We also had to be careful because there were signs of Snow Ninjas on the road: 
Can't just ignore a sign like that! Also there were some OTHER interesting signs of a more natural type: 
Luckily we didn't see any live Mountain Lions!! The slush after we got out of the inversion was rough, and we went pretty slow up AND back down in that craziness. But it was still nice to get out of it for a couple of hours! (Total time 3.5 hours!) 
Brother-in-law Ben running down STILL above the nasty!
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