Training Log Archive: Ari-oIn the 7 days ending Jan 11, 2015:
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Sunday Jan 11, 2015 #
10 AM
Ski-O race 25:00 [2] 2.5 mi (10:00 / mi) +70m 9:12 / mi
Skiing around and around and around and around the house, and then the course. Fun! Narrow trails are fun, kind of hard. No elevation, but a taste of Euro-O.
11 AM
Ski-O race 30:51 [2] 3.3 mi (9:21 / mi) +90m 8:37 / mi
The second, race, similar to the first. Minor mistakes again.
1 PM
Ski-O race 49:54 [2] 4.5 mi (11:05 / mi) +50m 10:43 / mi
Third course, feeling a little more confident in the woods, then skiing around to random points with Stina and Alex, then driving home.
Saturday Jan 10, 2015 #
1 PM
Run warm up/down 5:30 [1] 0.7 mi (7:51 / mi) +10m 7:31 / mi
Spent half an hour looking for blowtorch. Drove up to NH, had to pee the whole way. Got there with 28 minutes to my start, having to warm up, put on boots and wax. Blowtorched klister, let it freeze (out of the sun), corked in some blueish wax, tested it (skiing maybe 50m), stripped off clothes, started.
Ski race (Classic) 50:21 [3] 7.4 mi (6:48 / mi) +200m 6:17 / mi
Good fun at Bogburn. Surprisingly good conditions, and happy they took out the first nasty curves. I passed the guy in front of me and promptly fell on a super sketchy curve ahead of him, then passed some people and got passed by some people.
Didn't have a really good race like last year, felt flaily, but I've only classic skied maybe 5k this year so far. Then with 500m left I broke a pole, but not the one with the broken strap. Maybe time for new back-up poles?
Didn't have a really good race like last year, felt flaily, but I've only classic skied maybe 5k this year so far. Then with 500m left I broke a pole, but not the one with the broken strap. Maybe time for new back-up poles?
Ski warm up/down 26:22 [1] 2.9 mi (9:06 / mi) +65m 8:30 / mi
Nice cool down, would have liked to ski a bit more but we had to get going to Andy's cabin.
4 PM
Hiking 19:43 [1] 0.7 mi (28:09 / mi) +70m 21:29 / mi
Really nice walk to Andy et al's cabin. A little crusty, but still light, more than warm enough going uphill, and enough uphill to log. Great country, would love to see some O/trails. Then missed the Pats game because there was no service. None.
Friday Jan 9, 2015 #
6 AM
Run hills 37:39 [1] 4.1 mi (9:11 / mi) +250m 7:43 / mi
Didn't feel great going up on the hills this morning. I ran/bounded the bottoms of the hills, and then went easier up top. Also, I didn't want to kill myself before the weekend.
Bicycle 38:52 [1] 6.1 mi (6:22 / mi)
Shot down the hill, turned on Garmin, and went for a little bike ride. I wanted to check out the iciness/skatability of the lake in the Public Garden. Verdict: very icy (4", probably, at least) and very skatable, even with a dusting of snow that it now has. I biked around the lake a bit (because why not, so much fun, lots of wheelspin trying to start from a stop though without studs) and then walked Charles Street to the Longfellow to get a Strava segment (turns out it already exists). 109 people have logged that the wrong way on Strava, in fact!
6 PM
Ice skating 13:46 [1] 1.4 mi (9:50 / mi)
New activity type! Turned on Strava to skate around the Public Garden and was glad I did. It's hard work. New skates I found on the street work great. No one else was out!
Thursday Jan 8, 2015 #
7 PM
Ski (Mostly Double Pole) 43:04 [2] 6.2 mi (6:57 / mi) +100m 6:37 / mi
More mostly double poling! Many fewer people, better snow, even some tracks. I listened to a podcast the whole time which made it much more bearable. Every so often I started laughing (Bill Simmons making fun of the hall of fame voting is very funny #sportsball) but at least there was no one there to see me. More snow, too!
Then I got in my car, got on the Pike, set cruise at 60, passed one person at 62, made all the lights getting off of the Pike (as best you can, anyway) and got to my house in 13 minutes. This is a new record, and one that may never be broken unless I drive 90 on the Pike, which is probably not going to happen. Too bad there isn't a train track that goes from my house in Cambridgeport to Weston. Oh, there is, but Tim Toomey won't let trains run on it carrying people because cars are better for Cambridge, anyway.
Then I got in my car, got on the Pike, set cruise at 60, passed one person at 62, made all the lights getting off of the Pike (as best you can, anyway) and got to my house in 13 minutes. This is a new record, and one that may never be broken unless I drive 90 on the Pike, which is probably not going to happen. Too bad there isn't a train track that goes from my house in Cambridgeport to Weston. Oh, there is, but Tim Toomey won't let trains run on it carrying people because cars are better for Cambridge, anyway.
Wednesday Jan 7, 2015 #
6 AM
Run hills 43:00 [2] 2.5 mi (17:12 / mi) +709m 9:09 / mi
Off to the Stadium! About 15º, so t-shirt weather, albeit with long sleeves. And a buff. And gloves. 50 sections and about 40 push ups all told. I started well but slowed down some, #DeathCold2015 still kicking in every now and then. But mostly felt good, so that's good.
Run warm up/down 22:00 [1] 2.8 mi (7:51 / mi)
Run to NP, run home from NP. When it's below about 20, I get really very chilled if I try biking home as my core temperature is dropping after NP. So I wake up two minutes earlier and run there (on Wednesdays; on Fridays I have to wake up a lot earlier to catch a bus and make a transfer, so I bike and get cold).
7 PM
Ski (Mostly Double Pole) 45:42 [2] 6.4 mi (7:08 / mi) +100m 6:49 / mi
Strava/My Garmin detect ~0 climb at Weston. Yet they show an elevation differential of 16 feet per lap, or 10m each lap. So I'll put that in, because the double poling is certainly up hills. Skiing the race lap; one section with mondo death cookies, but mostly okay. Lots of EMBKers to DP up hills past.
Tuesday Jan 6, 2015 #
Note
Last vestiges of #DeathCold2015. I stopped sleeping 11 hours a day, and the cough is diminishing. Good to log colds, helps me remember that really what i need to do is prioritize sleep over everything else.
Monday Jan 5, 2015 #
6 PM
Run tempo 43:59 [2] 5.5 mi (8:00 / mi) +10m 7:57 / mi
Garmin is randomly taking several minutes to start up. I waited today because, well I don't really know, then ran with the wind down the Esplanade. Nice 6:20 miles there, and then I turned in to the wind and oh gosh, 9 minute miles the rest of the way home, trying not to get blown over. At least it's a cold wind, meaning snow!