Training Log Archive: kensr

Mini-warm up. Knew I had a long up hill walk to the start, but it wasn’t clear how to get there so I let it go at that.

SkiO!
Four starters at once, all jamming an oversized map into their holders. Narrow 50 m chute to begin, soft corn snow all scraped off bare rock. Felt a couple deep gouges and took off the skis and ran around a woman who was blocking the trail. Knew I had another steep drop shortly, ran almost to the first control and saw it would be okay. Saddled back up, got the control, skied over to a main trail. But was blinded by the sun right at me and plunged down that hill without seeing a thing.

Map more reasonable after that on main ski trails and bouncing around the flats.

Have to see the splits but sure I lost 5 min to the Finn mob on the first control.

Race was fun as always, but they didn’t have to have the start perched up the side of a steep hill in the woods. Could have had a more reasonable start and then just sent the younger masters on up.

Walk up to the start and then a second time to get my bag plus the original walk over and back from the apartment.