Training Log Archive: Carbons Offset

Adventure day, courtesy of cousin Larry.
It started last night: needed a 2 inch trailer tongue to fit in Larry's receiver. Finally found one to borrow from a neighbour. However, needed a different size ball. Asked the roommate downstairs of the place we are staying (Kiwi Rob's) if we could steal his off his truck. Yep. Tried to find the tools we needed in Rob's house. Not much luck. We really needed a pipe wrench but couldn't find anything like that in Rob's tools. After looking everywhere, Larry realized he had one in his vehicle because he had just bought it but was going to return it. Grabbed it, it fit the nut on the roommate's ball, but then the ball would just spin. Needed another wrench. Then I discovered Rob's tongue (too small) and ball in his house. Again, needed a second wrench to remove the ball. MacGyver'ed something with some big c-clamps. Got the ball off, put it on the larger tongue and installed it on Lucas's truck. Phew. The next morning, snuck through town with no working trailer lights. Gassed up the snowmobile. Larry forgot to gas up his empty truck.
Then we learned that the frame of the snowmobile trailer might be breaking. When we got to the trailhead and unloaded the snowmobile, we flipped the trailer on its side, hammered in a big piece of pipe as a new spine, and secured it in place with a bunch of big pipe clamps. Definitely looked like the ghetto crew, versus the two fancy Albertans who showed up with a nice truck, nice trailer, two monster sleds and ski rack for just the two of them (versus 6 of us and two sleds and a bunch of tow ropes). Larry's truck is almost out of gas.
12:15 pm, finished towing in, ready to start skiing. From where we parked the sleds, we missed our destination road by about 15 metres because we got distracted by another trail almost beside it. Followed that trail and soon we were traversing through super dense trees. Did this for two hours and then bailed and battled our way down to the road below. Eventually made our way over to the heli ski runs we intended to poach, had time for one run, then back to the sleds. Got back to the sleds at 4:45 pm. On the way out, I got pulled off line (I was in the middle of the tow line, between the sled and BigFish on the towline behind me) and through a downed tree that the sled and driver had just gone around but when the rope went taught again it tried to pull me right through the tree. I managed to let go and dive over the tree, taking the hit just below the knee on one leg but didn't seem injured. Phew. Then continued the leg pounding downhill tow back to the vehicles. Stashed one sled in the trees for our return tomorrow, left the light-less trailer, and Larry made it to town with no gas.
Adventure....

C • Are you sure 4

15.8

Was going to attempt the lactate-clearing training workout from our homework on TrainingPeaks, but the legs were a bit shot from Tuesday's spin class and yesterday's run, so I just kept it to E3.

Loop from the office to Shouldice bridge. Followed the south side Bow River path all the way to Edworthy bridge, came back on the north side to the Peace Bridge. Ran alongside the pavement for parts of it, on packed snow and ice.

Average cadence 85

16.2

It's February, so lots more MAP. Tonight was all about MAP sets.

4 x (3 min MAP, 2 min easy)
5 min rest (including the 2 minutes at the end of the last set, so just 3 minutes more)
4 x (3 min MAP, 2 min easy)

11 min easy

8 x 2:30 (2:20 E3 (target was lower third of E3 zone), :10 sec attack in hardest gear and +6 slope)

avg cad 99 rpm
E1094
1:25:30 below 170W
:16 min 170-210W
:28:19 above 210W
average 138W
max 482W

16.4

Finally got around to logging the ski trip Jan 16-22. Much of it resembles Revy's log, as that is where a lot of the info was taken from (with a few of my own insights)

Montane trails with Myka and Carbon. Great to see Myka again, we haven't seen her in quite a while due to getting wrapped up in backcountry skiing, now that the season is here :)
Trails were icy. Carbon and I did okay thanks to our studded shoes. Myka didn't have studs or spikes but insisted on pushing through. Tough gal and it didn't seem to slow her down much. Nice temperature for running, lots of chatting and catching up while running, and now there is nice daylight right through the end of our run.

C • Fun run... 2

16.5

They've made a lot of snow on the trails closer to the stadium (probably for the upcoming races) and it was in nice shape, I expected it to be icier after the rain and warm temperatures we had recently. Further out where they hadn't made snow, the real snow was dotted with lots of needles and pine cones that had been knocked out of the trees by the wind and rain.

Went really easy, partly because my poor ability to get grip limits my ability to put down much power, get going quickly and generate much of a workout. Added one layer of warmer wax and that helped the grip just a little but also added a little drag.
Still, when I started skating after this, I could tell that the hour of classic had used some energy.

Practiced some one-skate and pole-less skating. Felt a little more at home on skate versus classic but both techniques are really suffering due to neglect.
Lots of very fast people flying around with rifles on their backs and names of countries on their gear - IBU World Cup is in town, very cool. Similarly, lots of very fast and fit looking people at the grocery store afterward.

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Massage