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Thursday Mar 24, 2011 #
8 AM
XC skiing 21:24 2.11 mi (10:08 / mi) +6m 10:03 / mi
ahr:136 max:159
HTFU (thanks Cristina) training with Greg and Scott out in the howling wind on the flat open bit, so was really really windy. Deep drifts and then icy windblown sections. Almost impossible to see where the little trails were, and the big snowmobile ones were only visible because of the stakes in the ground... will have to see what it's like later, wind should be calming down and they should be going over all the trails to make them actually there. The crust is thick though, winder if cuts across it will make up part of the game today....
2 PM
XC skiing warm up/down 15:00 [1]
Whoops, showed up without mapholder! Found out when they said I was supposed to get a GPS and there wasn't a mapholder to strap it onto. So skied back to the hotel, scampered up and got it. The rest was more normal warming up, actually really boring, just back and forth in the stadium.
3 PM
Ski-O race 30:00 [4]
Sprint Relay @ Ski WOC in Tänndalen
This was a blast! Despite wind and snow and drifts. 3 x cool little sprint course, different enough each time, although you were gaffled with yourself, so definitely knew the 2 common controls the 2nd and 3rd times around.
Greg took us off, sprinted into the wind, and handed off to me right with the New Zealand team and Spain I think. The first leg was probably my best, had a clean and fast run, with I think all the right route choices and passed a bunch of gals putting us in 10th.
All the team was super helpful in between, adding clothing to me between the legs, and storing it between. Adrian also gets points for coming over early and walking through the stadium to explain it to us, and Alex for keeping my spare gloves warm in her armpit. Warm gloves rock.
2nd leg, I'm pretty sure I made one bad route choice, decided to go over a hill on a big trail instead of around on flats and a little trail. Little trails are perfectly fast on flats, would have been a fine option. I again just passed the Italian and Austrian gals coming into the finish to tag off Greg.
3rd leg, clean, any route choice errors must have been small, and was killing it to catch the Italian woman at the end, had the routes to the last two controls memorized (we had been in this area each leg before) and was just going going going, but when I came into the arena, she had just made the curve to the finish, just too much to reel in. Afterwards, figured out that they mispunched actually anyways, making us 12th place.
Really was great fun and a good addition to ski WOC (1st time there has ever been a sprint relay.)
This was a blast! Despite wind and snow and drifts. 3 x cool little sprint course, different enough each time, although you were gaffled with yourself, so definitely knew the 2 common controls the 2nd and 3rd times around.
Greg took us off, sprinted into the wind, and handed off to me right with the New Zealand team and Spain I think. The first leg was probably my best, had a clean and fast run, with I think all the right route choices and passed a bunch of gals putting us in 10th.
All the team was super helpful in between, adding clothing to me between the legs, and storing it between. Adrian also gets points for coming over early and walking through the stadium to explain it to us, and Alex for keeping my spare gloves warm in her armpit. Warm gloves rock.
2nd leg, I'm pretty sure I made one bad route choice, decided to go over a hill on a big trail instead of around on flats and a little trail. Little trails are perfectly fast on flats, would have been a fine option. I again just passed the Italian and Austrian gals coming into the finish to tag off Greg.
3rd leg, clean, any route choice errors must have been small, and was killing it to catch the Italian woman at the end, had the routes to the last two controls memorized (we had been in this area each leg before) and was just going going going, but when I came into the arena, she had just made the curve to the finish, just too much to reel in. Afterwards, figured out that they mispunched actually anyways, making us 12th place.
Really was great fun and a good addition to ski WOC (1st time there has ever been a sprint relay.)
4 PM
XC skiing warm up/down 7:00 [1]
Warm down in the windyness with Greg and Nikolay. Flower ceremony happened halfway through, so skied little loops spectating that, too cold to stop! Oh, and also skied back to hotel at end. I like commuting on skis =)