Training Log Archive: ernst

Morning lap swimming at the hotel after sipping the early bird coffee and reading the local newspaper at the breakfast joint of the hotel. Distance is guessed. Pool is about 12 meters?

Up and down the warm up area. Wax seemed ok. Groomed tracks were soft but not slushy. Nice conditions!

US Champs, "Long" distance Green Course. Distance taken from Jim's GPS route (did not bother to use my Garmin). Missed the first intersection to 1 (tried to be a good boy to start at my clock time - should have looked at the map carefully), had to turn back, then was not sure if I was on the correct trail among 3 or 4 possibles. Lost about 45 seconds. Then aggressively through the cuts to 2, back up same then to 3. Jeff lured my into the high road to 5, but then was going in the right direction to 6, which was South around. Good navigation to 6. The rest seemed fine, some hesitation around the field at 10 to 11, but I think I made the right choices, such as low around then back up to powerline, and back to 13. Was worried that rival Aims would ski strongly and error-free, so tired to ski hard where I could, but trying to be in control of navigation interfered a bit. In the end I won with a comfortable margin. Another nice event, and I am so glad to be here in the last bastion of snow in the NE.

Long Green - Splits

Event: North American and US SkiO Championships
 

Morning jog around Presque Isle. Found the town's bike trail. Roads were snow/slush covered so was glad to be away from the splashing cars.

Warm up (15 min) and cool down afterwards (20 min) for the US Ski-O Sprint Champs. Had to test the no-contact e-punch dibblers. Could not really hear the beep, so visual contact was necessary, which was challenging on a fast downhill.

Sprint Champs. Lots of hesitation in the first half. Very challenging to find my point on the map after each control. It got better in the second half as the course was a bit more linear with slightly longer legs. Great course. Aims beat me by 2 seconds. I am not at all used to sprinting. With one control per minute, there just did not seem to be a chance to ski to tempo, it was more like having to turn the brakes on for most of the course.

Sprint Green - Splits

Around 'the block" with some hill double poling repeats (3) at Surrey Lane. 72F !! Birds are singing. Strange weather. Hard to believe I will be on snow tomorrow.

Run to work (8:30 am) and back (5 pm). Steady (swift) pace but not pushing it too hard. Legs are strong from skiing.

Very light jog w. Jena (on leash!) around Spruce Hole. (kept J on leash b/c she seem to have some indigestion from some dead meat she must have snatched up on previous run). Woods are nice and dry.

joggeroo around Clyde's trail w Jena. Before going back to work for a M.S. presentation. Gray day, 35F.

Stopped in at Jackson on my way home. About 40F, incredibly nice sugar snow, Skied up Ellis to Hall, the Maple loop, and back, and out the Ellis which they had groomed to the top of the middle hill, so some good climb at the end as well.

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