Today's Olympic Treat: Nordic combined

This is another reason I love the Olympic Winter games.  There are so many "different" kinds of sports.  Nordic Combined involves cross country skiing for times with ski jumping for distance.  Maybe why I like both this one and biathlon is because of the combination of sports... after all, I went in for triathlon for myself.  And it also makes sense that I like curling in the combination of disciplines:  you have to have strength to throw the stones, and to sweep to affect their path, but you have to have strategy to choose which shots.

I suppose for some folks, the "big three" of Football, Baseball, and Basketball also offer combinations of skills, but the sheer variety in the Winter games always lifts my spirits.

Kid sis and I went walking this afternoon, in 49℉ sunshine with a light breeze.  We had skipped the prior two weeks due to cold, wind, and conflicts in schedules.  No!  It was THREE weeks we missed, because the week before that I had my "could this be Omicron?" isolation going!

Anyway, it felt good to get out and do!  It's also good news on the community spread front, hospitalizations are still too high, and unfortunately, also deaths, but the cases are dropping.  Hoping we'll see the risk dial go down in a week or two.  It's still in red, where it has been all of 2022!

Here's hoping my fellow Spark refugees are keeping up the spirit of self-care, as we move into seasons with get this:  more daylight!  It's coming, it's going to come.  Not before we get clipped by some more cold days, but it's coming!

🌞 Life is good.  Spark on!