Training Log: biggins

Note

took the car into the shop today, and since the shop is 50 miles away, I had all day to kill waiting around for them to finish. mostly doing things I don't get to do in Truckee. so I walked around Reno for a while, hit a few bookstores, saw Avatar (which is totally sweet), hit REI for a few dozen free dividend GUs, and hit best buy for a not-so-free T2I (which is totally super sweet).

skate ski 1:20:27 19.91 km (4:02 / km)
ahr:142 max:162 shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs

thought I'd be sneaky and get out wicked early (11am is early for the gainfully unemployed) to beat the heat, but even that wasn't enough. fast in the shade, but the rest already had enough sun to slow it down. though I don't supposed I can complain too much since it is tshirt weather.

skate ski 1:13:50 15.91 km (4:38 / km)
ahr:137 max:156 shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs

hot this afternoon, so the snow was slow as crap. I think this daylight savings stuff ruined the nice "last hour of the day icyness" conditions, as the last hour of the day is now what used to be the [hotter] second to last hour of the day.

skate ski 52:02 7.38 km (7:03 / km)
ahr:113 max:143 shoes: 09 rossi max 180s

after lunch

skate ski 2:01:10 23.61 km (5:08 / km)
ahr:118 max:157 shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs

easy ski with Jonathan, Ken, and Donatas around TD

hiking (snowshoes) 2:00:00 [1] 8.2 mi (14:38 / mi)

Jonathan and a friend came up from SF to do some tele skiing up around Donner Summit, so I tagged along for the uphill part on the snowshoes. Once we got up to the ridgeline almost up top of Castle Pk, they skiied back down into the bowl, and I traversed across the ridge to Basin Pk. Fairly windy on the ridge, and super windy on the summit. But I dropped down another ridge into the bowl and got out of the wind almost right away, then down across the flat and back to the trail we came up. Hard crusty snow on the ridges, many feet of powder down in the bowl. 4.5 hours rt.

Went past a ski cabin on the way out, which was pretty cool because it had two floors but no stairs, just ladders. But it also had two doors to get in, one on each floor. So in early season you enter on the first floor and climb up to the second, but in late season when there's lots of snow the first floor is buried, so you just go in on the second floor and then climb down.

Note

wet and snowing all day, another foot already? so instead I added dragons to cfi. they're totally relevant to orienteering games.

C • excellent 3