Saturday Apr 5 |
 | X-C Skiing (Kingdom Valley Trails) 1:20:00 [2]11.2 km (7:09 / km) | |
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| Still soft overnight, groomed and skied. Clouds cleared and sun warmed up really fast. Rewaxed to HF10 after one lap for the warmer conditions. Nice and relaxing, no speed today! |
| Road Running (Chester via Church Lane) 1:09:20 [3]7.0 mi (9:53 / mi) | |
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| Beautiful sunny afternoon. Breezy and warm; chewing into the snowpack. |
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| C • Sap 6 |
Friday Apr 4 |
| X-C Skiing (Kingdom Valley Trails) 1:10:00 [2]10.1 km (6:56 / km) | |
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| 1"snow last night; cold drizzle today. Skied late afternoon during end of drizzle. Snowpack froze last night, so it was still solid, but the skiing wasn't the most pleasant; very slow. On the plus side, the new snow covered most of the dirty surface snow. |
| Weight Training 30:00 [4] | |
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| 3 sets x 20 leg extensions, leg curls, one leg squats; situps w/25#, back extensions; bicep curls, wall wgts
12 pullups |
Thursday Apr 3 |
| Road Running (Chester) 54:00 [3]5.3 mi (10:11 / mi) | |
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| Down to the high school to do some 400's, but found the track still under 8" of snow. So ran around the village instead. |
| X-C Skiing (Kingdom Valley Trails) 48:00 [2]8.2 km (5:51 / km) | |
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| Had to work all day, so ran and then waited until after dinner to ski, letting the slush set up. Got it just as it was freezing together. Still have snow on the full loop around the fields, through the Pines, the Ravine and over Pook's Plunge. In the woods, however, the snow has gotten very dirty from branches and pine needles, so am constantly picking it clean. |
Wednesday Apr 2 |
| X-C Skiing (Kingdom Valley Trails) 1:00:00 [3]12.1 km (4:58 / km) | |
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| Groomed this morning when snow was frozen, busting up ice from yesterday's thaw and thunderstorm. Waited until after lunch and then skied, once again under clear, sunny skies. Got soft after a while, so called it quits.
Trail groomed up into good condition. Dirty in the woods from fallen branches. As snowpack melts, all the debris is left on the surface. Had to rake the Pines before grooming. Moved some snow onto the short 10m section at the S end of the Pines which melts out early. Used the big galvanized horse trough to move the snow. Fits perfectly on the groomer and adds weight to the grooming teeth. Between the Bombi treads and the groomer, am able to pulverize the frozen granular and even thin water ice. So skiing continues; next round of thaw and rain maybe this weekend. |
Tuesday Apr 1 |
| Road Running (Rte 11 hills) 56:00 [3]5.8 mi (9:39 / mi) | |
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| Down to end of straight and up over hill to Pleasant Valley Rd / RT. Warm, foggy.
Almost got nailed by a sandwich move on the hill. I'm running against traffic on the far left shoulder. A guy going my way decides to pass in a no-passing zone going up the hill. He's abreast of the overtaken car when somebody crests the hill coming the other way. The passer bails out to the left shoulder. The oncoming car squeezes between him and the car he's passing (the sandwich). Close call but all's fine, except I'm also on the left shoulder and have no clue what's going on, because it's all behind me. Then a quick honk and the passer flashes past my right elbow. Not even time to give him the finger. |
Monday Mar 31 |
| X-C Skiing (Kingdom Valley Trails) 1:00:00 [3]10.2 km (5:53 / km) | |
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| 1" new wet snow this morning. Wax too cold and slow. Trail in good shape. Snowing hard when I started, temp just above freezing. Came across some huge turkey tracks crossing the dam. Very fresh; they were noticably blurred by falling snow when I came back 2 minutes later. No sign of the birds themselves, however. |
Sunday Mar 30 |
| X-C Skiing (Kingdom Valley Trails) 1:11:00 [3]14.2 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Groomed everything this morning when the snow was cold (10F) and brittle. Then cut down a couple trees along the N edge of the field that were impinging on the stone wall. Once it warmed to 30F around noon, rewaxed with LF8 and skied. Beautiful clear, sunny day.
Snow groomed nicely, was smooth and compacted. Had a plastic texture in most areas, some sunny areas got wet towards the end. Working on technique lately, particularly on keeping my weight low on the turns and hills. Getting used to the feel. Notice the results especially on the tight skating corners. Still have a weak spot making the turn up to the shed, where Greg always picks up 20m on me. |
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| C • ok its official. no backing out now: 1 |
| Road Running (Rte 11 hills) 49:35 [3]4.6 mi (10:46 / mi) | |
| weight:162lbs |
| Came in from skiing, changed, and went for a run with Ruthie and Casey. By now up to 40F. Easy run down Rte 11 and back, and then on my own up to the top of the hill and a loop around the old highway route. Focusing on a careful transition to running: no two days in a row, easy on the downhills, and trying to protect my knees from hard impact. Got the cardio from skiing, but not the specific muscle moves for running. Much harder on the body, by the way. |
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| Drank the first bottle (actually a pint jar) of Chateau Kingdom Valley with dinner tonight. From Seyval grapes planted maybe 2 zones too far north. This was the first year I let the grapes ripen on the 4 year old vines. Just a sampling of things too come. With global warming, this should be prime vineyard property once the coastline advances a few hundred miles.
By the way, the vintage left something to be desired -- can't effectively ferment a small quantity of must. But hey, you just keep trying and downing the results. |