What We Do When We're Not Sleeping

When the alarm goes off in the long days of late spring, summer and early fall, chirping birds and breaking dawn greet you at 5:30 or 6am.  Nothing but cold and dark await through the dark days of winter making it really hard to pull yourself out of bed.  Sometimes excuses are thrust upon you, as was the case this Saturday morning when Jake needed to be at Jiminy Peak for Mount Greylock High School nordic practice at 6:45am.  This winter has been brutal on all the cross country skiers in New England- grabbing sixty minutes on man-made snow before the downhillers take over is what their season has come down to.  While skate skiing is in my future, I'm not there yet so I went for a five mile run while Jake and his teammates cranked around the base of Jiminy.  Jake and I returned to the house around 8:30 with Alison, Brady and Toby surfacing for breakfast while the two early risers had checked off their workout boxes for the day.

Jake at Jiminy base before the downhillers arrive