Training Log Archive: danfoster

Icy xc ski at the refuge with DH. Icy tracks could have used a few more degrees of warmth, or a dusting of new snow. Sure enough, just as we arrived back at the parking lot, glorious wet flakes started falling.

Grabbed Jess and my skate skis as soon as I got home from the refuge, and ventured out onto the frozen pond in search of skateable snow. Found plenty of snow that was too deep, plenty of patches of bare ice, and plenty of soggy spots where Jess was making slurping noises with each footstep. But my favorite ice skating spot had a narrow strip about the length of a soccer field of skate-friendly snow. Managed to get in 1.5 miles of quick straight-line sprints followed by soggy turn-arounds on each end. Jess was getting restless and the novelty was starting to wear off, so we headed back home.