In the last 7 days:
| activity | # | time | miles | km | +m | | | |
| XC skiing (skate) | 4 | 4:45:00 | 30.82 | (9:15) | 49.6 | (5:45) | 680 | | | | |
| XC skiing (classic) | 1 | 1:30:00 | 6.84 | (13:10) | 11.0 | (8:11) | 50 | | | | |
| Running | 1 | 45:00 | 4.1 | (10:58) | 6.6 | (6:49) | 160 | | | | |
| Total | 6 | 7:00:00 | 41.76 | (10:04) | 67.2 | (6:15) | 890 | | | | |
averages - weight:65.3kg |
XC skiing (skate) 1:10:00 [2] 11.6 km (6:02 / km) +160m 5:39 / km
shoes: Fischer Carbonlite
Worked on broccoli (practicing the less-favoured side. The other side is chocolate. Trying to coat some chocolate on the broccoli.)
Offset poling: high pole goes on the high side of the trail of off-camber sections, and the inside of the turn. And the timing of the pole switch is fast, ie half time or double speed; “tap-tap”
Then also practiced two-skate on the broccoli side.
Went east to west on Rundle. Coach was shocked when he heard I did it the other way yesterday.
Beautiful warm night.
XC skiing (skate) 1:10:00 [2] 12.0 km (5:50 / km) +220m 5:21 / km
weight:65.2kg shoes: Fischer Carbonlite
Went to CNC again to watch the mass start finals of the biathlon World Cup with Peter. Watched the women’s race in the morning. Then went for a ski and joined Haley and Emma Ruth who were heading out at the same time.
Out Banff with the second climb to the meadow, then west on Meadowview and back on Rundle (some big climbs heading eastbound; definitely harder climbing when going this direction but maybe that’s preferable to how fast you would be rocketing down these steep downhills in the other direction).
Very warm. Got sticky on the downhills.
Then hit the food trucks and got some good bleacher seats for the men’s final in the afternoon.
XC skiing (skate) 1:15:00 [1] 13.0 km (5:46 / km) +120m 5:31 / km
shoes: Fischer Carbonlite
With Melissa and Laurent. Out on Bow, back on Banff. Not fast but attacked a few of the hills. Warm.
Running (Trail ) 45:00 [2] 6.6 km (6:49 / km) +160m 6:05 / km
weight:65.3kg shoes: IceBug
Wow, it’s been so long since I have run that it was near the bottom of my activity list just above snorkelling…
Horseshoe trails. Stayed low and then climbed Lebensrun from near the bottom (nicely runnable) and back.
Really warm, shorts weather, crazy deep slush in spots.
XC skiing (skate) 1:10:00 [3] 13.0 km (5:23 / km) +180m 5:02 / km
weight:65.3kg shoes: Fischer Carbonlite
A shorter and earlier session so that we could catch the first day of biathlon World Cup racing.
Out on Bow, back on Banff, across the middle of the meadow, then up to Meadowview and back.
Did a series of interval sprint races, first in zone 3, then about 20 second sprints in zone 4 with long recovery, then max effort sprints for 5-8 seconds. Mostly one-skating.
Then watched the biathlon with Roddy while peppering him with questions about how the races work, etc, (he is a top-level biathlon coach) and got introduced to a few top people from biathlon and Nordiq Canada and a couple of World Cup medallists. Had a decent view of the range and could see the targets flip. Could only see a little bit of the race course.
Went to the Fan Zone after and Roddy got me to try the laser rifle shooting. 5 for 5 but I told him it was probably set easy to try to get people hooked. He did confess that they had the targets set to the larger size for standing, yet everyone was shooting prone (he tried standing and failed because the target receptors weren't at the correct height to align with the beam when standing) and there was also a block you could rest the rifle on. Also, no wind effect on the laser and no kickback. I'd be curious to try a more realistic setting to really test myself.... and I guess I need to do it with a high heart rate and heavy breathing after skiing hard for 2-3 minutes.
XC skiing (classic) 1:30:00 [2] 11.0 km (8:11 / km) +50m 8:00 / km
shoes: Rossi R-Skin
More skin ski testing.
I've determined that I like Rossi flex and so far I have no issues on 202 cm length (although I haven't tried them in a lot of turns etc.)
Rossi X-ium Premium+ R-Skin 202 cm, 65-85kg seemed to have tons of grip and glided well (better than my current skis and better than the Fischers)
Fischer Twin Skin Speedmax 3D 202 cm, 45FA.
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