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Saturday Feb 1, 2020 #
9 AM
Ski warm up/down 15:29 [1] 2.3 mi (6:44 / mi) +48m 6:19 / mi
Duck Pond wax test. Klister binder with Rode -1 -5 on top and it was fine. Variable conditions, some ice, some powder, some manmade.
Ski 3:01:09 [3] 30.9 mi (5:52 / mi) +911m 5:22 / mi
So Craftsbury. Didn't exactly wax my skis but it didn't matter. Got there with plenty of time. Got in to the third-ish row, relaxed start, and went out on the chase pack, but couldn't quite keep up with that pack and got dropped back some (John S went out on it for a bit, but then stopped putting time on me by the middle of the second lap). Elinors was fun, a guy double-poling (!) ate shit on the way down right in front of me. 56 minute split for the first lap, which is fast, because it was fast.
Skied the second lap with a bit of a group in places. Certainly didn't have the right skis, though. Almost ate shit down Elinors myself: berms and flat light. One guy (per Strava) skied away at mile 15 and wound up four minutes up. Others got ahead of me, and I went into the third lap all alone. 1:01 split for the second lap.
Third lap started slow. Bonky, and the kick was getting a little more spartan (but I kept kick through the race). I had a caffeine gel and had that coming into the second aid station and that helped a lot, so I was reasonably happy and made some good time up Sam's and up over the top. Caught Elissa there (who had a 15 minute head start, of course, I'm not pregnant) and caught glimpses of guys ahead of me there. And the caffeine had kicked in and I was feeling good.
Down Ruthies and I had caught two guys. Passed them, and then the double-poler was back and passed me for about 20 meters, but then we got to an uphill. Kick helped there, and I put two minutes on him there. I was feeling good, though, and went hard up the last uphill and caught two more guys, one of whom gave me a sprint but I got him by 0.1 seconds (thanks, Ed). Maybe I could have gone harder, or need to feed better, because I had energy there at the end. Or maybe I just need to stay caffeinated.
Skied the second lap with a bit of a group in places. Certainly didn't have the right skis, though. Almost ate shit down Elinors myself: berms and flat light. One guy (per Strava) skied away at mile 15 and wound up four minutes up. Others got ahead of me, and I went into the third lap all alone. 1:01 split for the second lap.
Third lap started slow. Bonky, and the kick was getting a little more spartan (but I kept kick through the race). I had a caffeine gel and had that coming into the second aid station and that helped a lot, so I was reasonably happy and made some good time up Sam's and up over the top. Caught Elissa there (who had a 15 minute head start, of course, I'm not pregnant) and caught glimpses of guys ahead of me there. And the caffeine had kicked in and I was feeling good.
Down Ruthies and I had caught two guys. Passed them, and then the double-poler was back and passed me for about 20 meters, but then we got to an uphill. Kick helped there, and I put two minutes on him there. I was feeling good, though, and went hard up the last uphill and caught two more guys, one of whom gave me a sprint but I got him by 0.1 seconds (thanks, Ed). Maybe I could have gone harder, or need to feed better, because I had energy there at the end. Or maybe I just need to stay caffeinated.
Ski warm up/down 20:19 [1] 2.2 mi (9:14 / mi) +48m 8:39 / mi
Duck, duck, duck, duck, cooldown.
3 PM
Note
Fun logistics this weekend.
Rode up with Andy and Christine. I met Andy in West Medford from Downtown, and we met Christine at Dascomb Road. Some traffic, but not too bad. They were going to Albany and not to Craftsbury, so dropped me at a rest stop where I waited for Jess to pick me up. Vermont rest stops are the best: wifi, a nice place to sit, and a friendly guy listening to the Grateful Dead.
Today, John and Jenny showed up just to ski and I proposed that they ski to Hill Farmstead (well, the nearest road crossing) and we'd pick them up in 2.5h so we had time to shower (yay, shower) and wax. Which we did. Then we drove over there and there was no sign of them. So we went to Hill Farmstead, because they were going to close, went back, and found just John. He said it was hillier than he thought; he had sprinted to get to the meeting point still super late (and at dark) and we gave him a headlamp to go backwards to find Jenny, while we drove back to the next road crossing to wait for her.
She came a few minutes later, and it turns out they'd made a wrong turn and skied an extra 7.5k. That won't exactly help. But everyone was accounted for, and we went and got pizza.
Tomorrow, Christine and I are getting a ride to Dascomb with Jeff, and then she's taking us to Cambridge. Logistics success! Also, saved ~1000 miles of driving versus everyone driving alone.
Rode up with Andy and Christine. I met Andy in West Medford from Downtown, and we met Christine at Dascomb Road. Some traffic, but not too bad. They were going to Albany and not to Craftsbury, so dropped me at a rest stop where I waited for Jess to pick me up. Vermont rest stops are the best: wifi, a nice place to sit, and a friendly guy listening to the Grateful Dead.
Today, John and Jenny showed up just to ski and I proposed that they ski to Hill Farmstead (well, the nearest road crossing) and we'd pick them up in 2.5h so we had time to shower (yay, shower) and wax. Which we did. Then we drove over there and there was no sign of them. So we went to Hill Farmstead, because they were going to close, went back, and found just John. He said it was hillier than he thought; he had sprinted to get to the meeting point still super late (and at dark) and we gave him a headlamp to go backwards to find Jenny, while we drove back to the next road crossing to wait for her.
She came a few minutes later, and it turns out they'd made a wrong turn and skied an extra 7.5k. That won't exactly help. But everyone was accounted for, and we went and got pizza.
Tomorrow, Christine and I are getting a ride to Dascomb with Jeff, and then she's taking us to Cambridge. Logistics success! Also, saved ~1000 miles of driving versus everyone driving alone.