Training Log Archive: bensmith

Along the beaches to PSP, up East Canyon, then back via roads. Went steady for the first half, then increased the pace for a progression run. Felt great towards the end.

To and from Spikeball in the park. Haven't played since last summer, but picked it up again quite quickly.

Took my fat skis out on Hollyburn. I chose a slightly silly route on the way down that had too many flat / slightly uphill sections, which are really noticeable on downhill skis. Still a fun little outing.

I've wanted to orienteer in the snow for a while, so I made myself a Foot-O course on the Hollyburn map. This year is perfect for it as there's still 2m+ of snow up there, but the Nordic area has closed already so we're able to run off-trail (and don't have to wear snowshoes).

I added the snowshoe trails to the regular Ski-O map (using strava heatmaps), and they turned out to be pretty accurate. They're not super visible any more, but you can definitely follow them when you're on them.

I ran in micro-spikes and chose straight-is-great route choices. That got pretty steep at times, and I was doing some hands-and-feet ascents, but I never lost too much traction. Some of the subtler contour features were lost in the snow, but the map worked far better than I anticipated.

It had snowed 15cm today, so it was hard work breaking trail. I had a blast up there though. I've emailed the course to the Night-O mailing list, so hopefully some other folks can enjoy it too.

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To and from lunch with a friend.

Coaching OAK. I've got 7 older kids (~ grade 7) and they are WILD. Gonna be an interesting 8 weeks trying to get them to learn anything.