Fitness can't be stored. It must be earned over and over, indefinitely.
Yesterday I spent the windiest day in the world on a snow-like sandy beach with people I love, making footprints in the drifts and watching them be smoothed and vanished. We might never have been there, except that we know it.
Now, when it snows in the spring I'm going to take a cold sunny bucket and make sandcastles in the whiteness, and between then and now I may even get round to a little poem about it.
That's lovely Mud. What a beautiful thing to do. If I may suggest something, when you make snow castles...have a go at pressing your face into the snow. Sounds mad and uncomfortable but you're a fell runner so that is nothing new. You can make the most amazing prints and if you photograph them with strong sunlight they look like they are three dimensional. I'll try and post one...