Saturday Mar 10 |
 | Trail Running race (Snowgaine) 8:07:00 [4]36 km (13:32 / km) | |
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| Day 1 of CNYO Snowgaine with Charlie Leonard at Hope Lake. Spent the day across the road clearing almost all the controls beyond Greek Peak. Good snow cover with temps getting above freezing. Ended up 7 minutes overtime for the day, but got an extra 60 point control, so it was worth it. |
Thursday Mar 8 |
| Cross Training (Daily hill run) 40:00 [3]2.0 mi (20:00 / mi) | |
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| Snowshoe up around ridge, breaking some new trail. Remains cold at -10F. No wind so the outing was very enjoyable. Casey did have trouble, punching thru the crust in most places. |
| X-C Skiing (Kingdom Valley - skate) 44:00 [3]6 km (7:20 / km) | |
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| Night skiing, lumpy snow yesterday froze bumpy today. Temp almost back down to zero. Rewaxed LF4 from HF8; much better, but still slow on the windblown powder. Lots of work and not much speed today. |
Wednesday Mar 7 |
| X-C Skiing (Kingdom Valley - skate) 30:00 [3]3 km (10:00 / km) | |
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| Frozen crust from the weekend, mixed with windblown powder. Snow temp probably still below zero (was minus 17F last night) and skis had wax for high twenties. So either slick on the frozen stuff or stopped dead on the powder. Stopped to groom it, which broke up the granular. Wax was still totally off, so called it quits with darkness. |
Tuesday Mar 6 |
| Cross Training (Daily hill run) 34:00 [3]2 km (17:00 / km) +110m 13:20 / km | |
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| Morning snowshoe loop up around end of logging road with Casey. Trail broken the other day, so faster this time. Bitter cold, minus 10F and windy. |
Monday Mar 5 |
| X-C Skiing (Prospect - skate) 2:07:00 [3]22.5 km (5:39 / km) | |
| shoes: Fischer RCS rock |
| In Bennington today, so went up to Prospect after I was finished. Cold wind and blowing snow; about 2" ungroomed new snow that kept filling my tracks. Dressed ok and skiing was still fine. |
Sunday Mar 4 |
| Cross Training (Daily hill run) 45:00 [2]2.0 mi (22:30 / mi) | |
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| Snowshoe up the logging road the the far end, then back up to the ridge and down Dan's Dive. Ruthie and I did fine, but Casey was struggling in the deep cover (2 feet). |
| X-C Skiing (Kingdom Valley - skate) 1:01:00 [3]12 km (5:05 / km) | |
| shoes: Fischer RCS rock |
| Groomed the new snow from Friday. Had dried out so it packed nicely.
4 long laps; 1 short, no poles |