Thursday Jan 31 |
 | ski-o race 1:27:00 [3]20.6 km (4:13 / km) | |
| |
| Day 2 at Tahoe XC. Nice day, didn't start snowing until we were all finished, and the trails were fairly solid. At least they were all groomed today. Had one control that was about 300m away from where it should have been, so I ended up doubling back and forth once thinking I'd missed it before I went way out to find it. Lost about 4 minutes on that one. |
| skate ski 30:00 [2]2 km (15:00 / km) | |
| |
| warmup |
Wednesday Jan 30 |
| |
| Event: 2008 Sierra Avalanche Ski-Orienteering Championships
|
| ski-o race 1:20:00 [3]14 km (5:43 / km) | |
| |
| Race 1 at Tahoe Donner. Got a foot of snow overnight, so they started grooming everything fresh this morning. Trails were actually pretty solid, so not too many problems there. First few went ok, and I was feeling good with the skiing, wax was great (on one good ski + one rock ski), so I was getting into it. Then at about control 4 I found out that since I was one of the first starters (the first on blue) it was apparently my responsibility to make sure the dotted trails existed. So I lost a few minutes bushwacking through bottomless powder to get to the next trail (the alternative was a km and 10 contours). The next few were fairly uneventful, until #7 where there was an entire solid green trail that wasn't groomed. Spent a few minutes thinking I was lost, then confused, then just pissed because I had to set more bushwack trail. Lost at least five minutes to dad on that one. After that we started to loop back through parts of the map we'd already been on, so I knew which trails existed or not, and we had also finished all the wicked climbs, so things were good to the end. I think I finished fourth, a whopping 25 minutes behind Margus Hallik, and a few minutes in front of Randy and Dad.
|
| |
| C • Another way to save your edges 2 |
| skate ski 1:00:00 [1]2 km (30:00 / km) | |
| |
| We got there early, and they were still grooming trails and setting controls, so before the starts they sent Dad, Randy and I out into the nearby beginner trails to create/pack the dotted trails. Much fun wading through powder. Until you lose your balance and your poles go in up to the handles. |
| skate ski 1:00:00 [1]5 km (12:00 / km) | |
| |
| Control pickup in the afternoon, with no poles and no map. |
Tuesday Jan 29 |
| skate ski 1:10:00 [3]10 km (7:00 / km) | |
| |
| Royal Gorge. So the weather said it was going to flurry in the morning and start snowing hard in the late afternoon. By about 10am it was coming down an inch or two an hour. We went out trying to follow the groomer around, but the best we could get were some trails that only had about 4 inches on them. |
| skate ski 1:00:00 [3]5 km (12:00 / km) | |
| |
| Afternoon loop, we tried to find some better trails, but it turned out that the groomer had stopped for the day about 11am, so everything had at least 6 inches on it, most of it was above the boots. Not so good. |
Monday Jan 28 |
| skate ski 1:30:00 [3]15 km (6:00 / km) | |
| |
| Tahoe Donner XC. Got another foot of snow overnight and it was still coming, so we were chasing behind the groomer by an hour or two and there was already 4 inches on top of what he groomed. So a somewhat slow morning. |
| skate ski 1:00:00 [3]10 km (6:00 / km) | |
| |
| Out again after lunch. Still snowing, but only an inch or two on the trails this time. Spent some time following the tread tracks of the groomer (in the deep stuff they just drive it first before they groom it) practicing the ski-o-jump-skate to mild success. Then fell into a soft patch of snow followed by a hard patch of snow and cracked the tip on one of my [previously-good] skis. I'm pretty sure I started it in Switzerland on one of my spectacular falls on the long course, since there's been a little hitch in its springiness ever since. There's a big hitch now, and a crack in the top of the ski. |
| |
| C • Shifting blame... 2 |
Sunday Jan 27 |
| skate ski race 1:01:00 [3]15 km (4:04 / km) | |
| |
| Tahoe Rim Tour 2008.
A new race this year, the idea was that it starts at Tahoe XC, climbs up over the ridge, then drops down the other side into the Northstar trails for about 30k. Well they sortof got a foot of snow last night (after a couple feet last week) and the winds on the ridge were gusting to highway speeds, so they rearranged the course to a 20k loop just around the Tahoe XC trails, which actually turned out to be 15k by dad's gps.
So I'm not sure what exactly to pin it on, but for some reason I wasn't really feeling too strong:
a. 3.5 hours of sleep
b. going 0-7000ft 3 hours before the start
c. the 10 mile run yesterday
d. a powerbar breakfast.
e. my glide wax was crap.
f. all of the above.
Combined with the new soft snow that made everything difficult, I bonked on the big long hill about 5k into it. Got passed by a few people, caught most of them on the downhills afterwards but lost a lot of time wheezing my way up the hill. Finished after the local acclimitized guys (they were around 50 mins) but still in front of all the old folks. Looks like I was 28th out of 110 or so. |
| skate ski warm up/down 1:00:00 [3]8 km (7:30 / km) | |
| |
| a few k warmup, plus skiing from the finish back to the car then back to the finish, plus a long slow cooldown loop with dad after lunch. |
Saturday Jan 26 |
| run 1:27:00 [3]10.3 mi (8:26 / mi) | |
| |
| temescal ridge run. it started out crystal clear and 80 degrees, could see all the mountains to the north (snow down to 3000'), but by the end the next storm had rolled in and it was starting to drizzle. time to head north before the brunt of this one gets here. |
Friday Jan 25 |
| Note | |
| |
| check out what I added to CF this week: ha |
| |
| C • So Cool! 4 |
| Note | |
| |
| tahoe rim tour 30k skate |
Thursday Jan 24 |
| run 46:00 [3]6.0 mi (7:40 / mi) | |
| |
| got out in the 3 hour window between when it stops pouring and when the smog comes back, so it was actually a pretty nice run. although I did hit a stop sign. |
Wednesday Jan 23 |
| rollerblade 1:04:00 [3]21 km (3:03 / km) | |
| |
| what timezone am I on again? finally got my luggage delivered last night. |
Monday Jan 21 |
| Note | |
| |
| so apparently with the new company today is a holiday and nobody is here. glad they told me about it. |
| Note | |
| |
| photos from switzerland |
| |
| C • photos 1 |
| run 47:00 [3]6.0 mi (7:49 / mi) | |
| |
| lovely jog around the ghetto to check if they still had traffic here. wasn't disappointed. |
Sunday Jan 20 |
| Note | |
| |
| yea for 30 hours of travel. where's my skis? |
Saturday Jan 19 |
| ski-o 49:00 [3]6.2 km (7:54 / km) +200m 6:48 / km | |
| |
| EOC relay. On a mixed team with Carl and a swedish dude. Actually felt good today. The map was mostly the same as the middle, and after friday I felt pretty confident I could ski hard on all of the terrain, so I could concentrate more on the navigation. Still made a few mistakes worth a couple minutes, but overall it was definitely the best race of the week. |
| skate ski 45:00 [2] | |
| |
| ski lessons with coach alex |
Friday Jan 18 |
| ski-o 1:08:00 [3]7.1 km (9:35 / km) +200m 8:24 / km | |
| |
| EOC middle. Much better race than the long. The terrain was a lot flatter, so I could manage to ski pretty fast without falling or hitting trees. I could ski fast enough that I got to make navigation mistakes, which for some reason actually felt good. Still dfl, but pretty close behind Carl, and I can account for a few minutes in some pretty good mistakes (like reading the loops backwards...) |
Thursday Jan 17 |
| skate ski 50:00 [3]8 km (6:15 / km) | |
| |
| Ski on the Engadin trail a few towns up from S-chanf. Nice and flat, with lots of sun.
also in the morning we took a cog railway up Muottas Muragl, then took a toboggan down the access road - 700m vertical drop in about 15 mins. |
Wednesday Jan 16 |
| ski-o 3:25:00 [3]16.2 km (12:39 / km) +540m 10:51 / km | |
| |
| EOC long. Too physically tough of a course for me, I couldn't ski that far in those trails, just too much climb in the soft stuff. Pretty miserable all around. |
Tuesday Jan 15 |
| ski-o race 29:28 [3]3.3 km (8:56 / km) | |
| |
| EOC sprint. |
Monday Jan 14 |
| ski-o 1:00:00 [3] | |
| |
| on the model event map |
Sunday Jan 13 |
| Note | |
| |
| ski-o WC in SUI. jan 14-20 |
| |
| C • Good luck! 2 |
| skate ski 1:00:00 [3]8 km (7:30 / km) | |
| |
| in the dark on the Engadin trail in S-Chanf with Dad and Alex |
Thursday Jan 10 |
| rollerblade 57:00 [3]16 km (3:34 / km) | |
| |
| slow this morning, I think my bearings are full of sand. |
| soccer 1:00:00 [3] | |
| |
| |
Wednesday Jan 9 |
| roller ski 1:05:00 [3]16.5 km (3:56 / km) | |
| |
| New boots! These things are pretty sexy. Not only do they fit (sort of), but they're a ridiculously shiny orange.
6:03, 5:50, 5:18, 5:14
6:11 |
| |
| C • rossignol? 2 |
Tuesday Jan 8 |
| rollerblade 1:02:00 [3]19 km (3:16 / km) | |
| |
| |
| |
| C • euro volts 3 |
| soccer 1:00:00 [3] | |
| |
| yea mud |
| |
| C • Tahoe? 3 |
Monday Jan 7 |
| roller ski 1:00:00 [3]13.3 km (4:31 / km) | |
| |
| it finally stopped raining, but everything was still soaked, so no skating. all dp:
6:57, 6:27, 5:58, 6:09 |
Saturday Jan 5 |
| rollerblade 1:20:00 [2]17 km (4:42 / km) | |
| |
| |
Friday Jan 4 |
| run 52:00 [3]6.0 mi (8:39 / mi) | |
| |
| dark and gusty and ominous of the impending typhoon. should be a good weekend. |
Thursday Jan 3 |
| rollerblade 1:10:00 [3]21 km (3:20 / km) | |
| |
| I miss humidity already. |
| |
| C • Miss the nice cool climate,... 3 |
| |
| C • Garnet Hill 4 |
| soccer 1:00:00 [3] | |
| |
| got to deliver a good beating on everybody that just sat around for the last two weeks. |
Tuesday Jan 1 |
| skate ski 1:00:00 [3]10 km (6:00 / km) | |
| |
| skiing around the house and setting controls around the pines. |
| ski-o 19:00 [3]3 km (6:20 / km) | |
| |
| super dodgy ski-o around the super dodgy showshoe trails in the pines. |