Yesterday, upon awakening I thought I was dreaming. It was below 0 C and snowing. Wiping the sleep out of my eyes, putting the kettle on boil, I started to prepare breakfast and quickly realized that this was no joke, dream or hallucination: It really was snowing and worse of all, accumulating on the ground!

I'm adaptable, so I threw on the running shoes and got after it. Even the trees seemed shocked as they bowed deeply under the unseasonal weight of the white stuff and slumped limply over the single-track. It was actually pretty fun dodging "slush bombs" that would fall without notice on either me, or one of my teammates as we ran.

I do have to admit, seeing snow excited me a little as well. It's now September, and I only have two months of training season left before I fly to Europe and start yet another ski season. That said, I won't be too disappointed to be training without my shirt down in California in a few weeks either, haha.

Hope those of you in the East enjoyed your +30 C weather the past few days...

Devon.

What have we done to our planet? This photo was taken yesterday: AUGUST! 31ST/2008. What'the?

After a 2hr run in 3" of snow, here's Phil finishing it off... Don't worry, it's about 1pm, and there's still plenty of snow on the ground.

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