Training Log Archive: tommigIn the 7 days ending Mar 5, 2017:
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Saturday Mar 4, 2017 #
9 AM
Orienteering race (SBOC Welsh Champs Merthyr) 1:34:50 9.98 km (9:30 / km) +379m 7:59 / km
ahr:160 max:178 shoes: VJ Irocks (red) 2017
Lots of fun. Felt old an tired but Nav OK for most of it.....
Wednesday Mar 1, 2017 #
7 AM
Nordic Ski - Skating Style (hikilenkki ) 45:55 9.23 km (12.1 kph) +126m
ahr:160 max:178 shoes: Fischer Freestyle RSC
a quick morning hikilenkki (sweatloop) before breakfast on skating skis. squeezed last remaining strength out of legs and now i have had enough of lapland and am ready to go "home"..... who the hell am i kidding??? Not even Erkki believes that......
Tuesday Feb 28, 2017 #
10 AM
backcountry skiing 5:07:22 13.71 km (22:25 / km) +381m 19:41 / km
ahr:110 max:148
Out with group again into grey sky and some snow. Climbed up to top of aurinkokuru (sunshine gorge) and would you believe it, at that moment the sun came out. lovely to play on way down the gorge (or combe maybe is better translation for this one) and then onto luulampi (bone pond) for lunch. Back up again through kettukuru (fox gorge) again in most fantastic sunlight before a final descent through the reindeer fence back to fell centre. Couldnt ask for better scenery, company or weather.
3 PM
Nordic Ski - Classic Style (Sivakkaoja) 43:14 6.81 km (9.5 kph) +119m
ahr:149 max:167 shoes: Karhu Classics
a quick loop on classics down the lovely sivakkaoja trail through ancient forest.... now ready for smoke sauna and dip in the stream
8 PM
Snowshoe Trekking (aurora) 1:08:13 1.37 km (49:39 / km) +3062m 4:05 / km
ahr:101 max:137
a slow, chaotic walk with snowshoes under the aurora boreals and stars. saw a nice display, not all that strong, but beautiful and eerie.
Monday Feb 27, 2017 #
10 AM
Nordic Ski - Classic Style (Vellinsärpimäoja 35k) 4:49:37 35.07 km (7.3 kph) +655m
ahr:137 max:174 shoes: Karhu Classics
First time out on classics this year, felt great. Glide wax a bit slow in the -9 conditions but kick waxing perfect which is the main thing. Stayed in tracks for all but steepest climbs. out over Ahopää to Saariselkä, with half a mind to go the beautiful kulmakuru trail. In the end had doubts about the condition so went for more certain vellinsärpimäoja trail. Stopped for lunch at vellinsärpimäkämppä and lit a fire in the stove to dry my sweatsoaked back and jacket... stove only warming up by time i was ready to leave, but the next folk along would find a nice warm cabin! The prettiest machine made trail here, a long, mostly gentle, climb is rewarded by about 5km of undulating and winding descent through the forest. Finally a long, hard, slog of a climb over kiilopää fell into a freezing headwind and in flatlight, followed by a steep, fast descent to fell centre, light made it impossible to see trail so snowploughed and mistly trusted that trail would be in tact and in front of me..... clothes into dryer, Tommi into sauna, then to set about replacing some of the 4000 calories burnt