Training Log Archive: Ari-o

Back to Hidden Valley. Not as early as I would have liked, it turns out that when you drink a couple glasses of 13.5% beer, it does not make for an early morning. Also, it was -15 overnight. In the teens by 10, though, so I did an hour of classic on some beautiful fun old school narrow classic tracks. Kick was something blue (but not borrowed, the one stick of wax I'd packed).

Then down to Duluth to ski with Jakob. We skied the Magney-Snively trails near the area I ran (most of) the 50 miler last year. Most of the trails in the Midwest are pretty tame, but these have some real hills. The kind where you can actually learn to ski down a hill well. Beautiful, beautiful woods, 20k of trails you could ski forever. Perfect snow (oh, well, two rocks). If you like trails of all sorts, Duluth is not a bad place.