Saturday Dec 8 |
 | X-C Skiing (Rangeley Training Camp) 3:00:00 [3]26 km (6:55 / km) | |
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| Skate day. Drills for double pole, kick double pole (good), regular striding. Increasing tempo for hill climbing. |
Friday Dec 7 |
| X-C Skiing (Rangeley Training Camp) 3:00:00 [3]20 km (9:00 / km) | |
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| Classic day. Good drills and some free skiing.
Strength exercises at lunch -- planks, dips; bad news for tomorrow.
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Thursday Dec 6 |
| X-C Skiing (Rangeley Training Camp) 1:00:00 [3]9 km (6:40 / km) | |
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| Drive to Maine and get going for the first afternoon of the NENSA masters trining camp. Good snow cover; lots of trails open. Skate skiing and drills today. |
Wednesday Dec 5 |
| X-C Skiing (Kingdom Valley Trails) 38:50 [3]7 km (5:33 / km) | |
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| Firmer snow today. Rewaxed with LF4; temp cold and snow still has teeth, so needed a harder wax. Ran faster with less work.
Off tomorrow for training at Rangeley, ME. Lots of snow this year. |
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| C • Rangeley 2 |
Tuesday Dec 4 |
| X-C Skiing (Kingdom Valley Trails) 1:02:00 [3]8.5 km (7:18 / km) | |
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| Tried skiing witout grooming, but snow was still soft. Fired up the groomer (after winching it to a tree to get the starter engaged) and made a couple passes. Much better. Snow much colder than wax, so had to rewax, too. Good workout, but slow. |
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| C • So jealous! 2 |
Monday Dec 3 |
| X-C Skiing (Kingdom Valley Trails) 58:00 [3]7.6 km (7:38 / km) | |
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| 10" new snow last night -- didn't even have to make it myself. Still had to work; had a client in Burlington, which meant a really long drive up an unplowed I-89 starting before 5 AM.
Got home and packed the Fields and Pines and skied it right away. Should have let it set up, but wanted to ski before dinner. Punched thru on all the upgrades; overall pretty slow.
Will regroom tomorrow after it settles. I have extended the groomer to have a 6' rigid center plus 1-1/2' snow flaps on each side. Gives me a 9' wide smooth trail on a single pass -- perfect skate lane. |
Sunday Dec 2 |
| O - competition long (Blue Hills Traverse) 2:44:27 [3]17.8 km (9:14 / km) | |
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| Ran as a the last long training run before ski season starts -- as in tomorrow! Steady pace around a good course by Dean. Easy nav at a comfortable speed. Only error cost a couple minutes at #7; maybe a route chioce or two; just cranked along at my distance pace. Mostly alone. Straight line distance 13.6 km. |
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Traverse - Splits |