Training Log Archive: X8A7

Another day putting in the km at the Jack, about 34 km this time. Yesterday and today I had similar nutrition, 8 chocolate chip cookies and two baby foods. Yesterday was 3 baby food, and half a Heed bottle during ski. Today I only took one sip and felt fine the entire ski. Start was a bit slow, it always takes a bit to get going up there. I was stiff from yesterday, only slightly sore. It was a good ski and I still had plenty of energy in the last half hour. I switched wrists with the watches. The 45 was not reading well in the first 15min, so I moved it closer to my wrist bone on the right hand, and then it was close to perfect the rest of the ski. In fact, at the end the 225 wigged out, so neither was perfect. The 45 might be OK. Its going to have to be, there was only 16% battery left on 225 at the end, doubtful it go 3.5-4.0 hours, so I don't have much choice other than to make the 45 work. At least I know its possible to get it to work skiing now.

warmup (an hour), cooldown.

4x10min intervals, started at lower UW, finished near the Moose/Vans turn around. Went a bit further on each, effort very similar on each, average HR 161-169, max HR 181-184. Tracks were old and slow as a dusting of new snow had settled in them, only skied in them to kick, so a lot of DP in the skate lane. They went decently. Just to do a tough workout as this is a good sign I suppose. Didn't feel very quick, and legs and back felt stiff, noticeable when tucking. Wore both HRMs, 45 on left, 225 on right (plus the timex for interval countdown - three watches!), 225 gave perfect data, 45 rarely read right, very frustrating. 45 will go on the right tomorrow. 225 only had 30% left, so we'll see if it can make 3 hours. 45 only went down 20%.

About 8min of recovery to ski back to the start of upper UW after each interval.

The 45 HRM is two iterations newer than the 225, it should work better, I'll try a few more things... Two more things are really annoying with it. Why the hell can't I turn off the HRM for just wearing around? So it only comes on if the timer is going? Also, the watch face I downloaded is a huge improvement over the standard, but the seconds only show when you "gesture," even then, only sometimes and not for long enough. I think I'm going to try to dive into the "Watch Face Builder"...

Both watches worked perfectly on this.

The 45 worked perfect on this, the 225 had a couple of stints reading too high. By the end of the workout the 45 lost 20% battery, the 225 lost 43%. The 45 was more comfortable. Tomorrow will be the real test.

Around Glenmere. Bought a Garmin Forerunner 45 today. The battery on the 225 is getting tired and I'm concerned it will die at the end of a three hour workout. The results are from the 225 as it had a very good HR day, the 45 didn't read accurate until 20min in.

5x1

Here the 45 read right and the 225 did not.

Didn't sleep well a couple nights ago, so instead of doing a workout yesterday, I just went to bed and did what I've done after nearly every Star Wars movie I've seen since episode VI, rewrite the screen play in my mind. Today I went up to Laramie to get my parking permit, then skied two hours, tried to keep the pace up most of the time. I smelled a Swampfox, and in fact, I caught a glimpse off in the distance and through the trees of the distinctive blue and yellow wind breaker from 1985 that Swmpfoxes must always wear in the winter. I can only assume that the jacket was paired with navy blue Trimex pants and a gray knitted hat. Of course I'm one to talk, today was the first time I didn't ski in my 20 year old Craft pants in I don't know how many years...