As usual, I'm not as physically ready as I'd like to be before a tour.

Last year, we hadn't been on our bikes in the five months between returning from Spain and cycling out of Florence, but at least we were in decent shape from lots of cross-country skiing.  This winter hasn't been going quite so well.

On December 16 I slipped on a step and came down hard on the landing 7 inches below.  This was enough to cause a "meniscal strain", as my physiotherapist put it, on my previously-damaged left knee.  I could hardly walk for a couple of weeks but Al set up my road bike on the indoor trainer and I was working on knee mobility, as directed by my physio, by day 2.  I'm not a fan of indoor riding (half an hour of spinning is generally my limit), but perhaps that's because mine is a dumb trainer and I associate it with recovering from injury.  After all, that's why I bought it back in 2014.

It took until the end of January before I could resume my skate-skiing fitness plan and, thanks to the poor ski season this year, I haven't advanced much.  I don't want to ski heavy fresh coastal snow or refrozen crud on my recovering knee.  Al's been doing better, but even he is not skiing the distances he did last year.

I've also gotten out on my bike a few times but the weather has either been cold and the streets icy or salty (or both) or very wet--or we've had trades working in our home repairing the deficiencies we reported almost a year ago.  I'm hoping the weather here will cooperate better in the next few weeks for both skiing and riding and that the deficiency repairs will be finished before we leave.

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