Training Log Archive: W

Another cold ski at Goldbar hampered by having to be at the shop at noon and extremely slow-moving relatives. I'm not sure how much more I would have wanted to ski anyway, though, there's something about cold, and cloud, and doing Goldbar over and over and over again that sometimes, is just incredibly tiresome. Incredibly tiresome.

A morning cold cold run with Claire. Hit the new snow on the single track trails on the river which were quite nice. It was also -21 with a wind chill of -27, which was.... less nice. Naturally, though, once you get going and keep the pace low, it was very pleasant.

And everyone else is too much of pansies to go out at all.

Adrian came back in town, so I jumped at the chance to go for a quick jog with him.

We reminisced about how we used to be in shape and that we're all old and slow now. Ah.... memories.

Met up with Maryann for a real real nice ski out at Blackfoot. Our wax work fairly well, until it clearly didn't because it started raining. The last 45 minutes was quite a bit of double poling. But, the track was fairly nice when we got out of the first section, and a generally lovely day.

Ordinarily on Christmas day we'd go out somewhere further away and get in a long ski. As I mentioned yesterday, things seem to be moving at a snails pace these days, no the best we could muster was Riverside in the rain. Which was a nice change. For.... about 20 minutes.

Gee whiz, wouldn't it be nice if the weather was warm and I didn't have to work much and I'd have lots of time to do lots of training with my sister?

Yep, that would be nice.

Instead, an hour an 5 minutes at Goldbar. This is a recurring theme over the week.

Skate sprint regional race down at Goldbar. Fastest Qualifier, rubbed out in the final by some.... highly questionable obstruction. No post-race apology either. Whether or not you think its your fault, or whether it was your fault or not, its always good form to double back and provide a handshake. Tsk tsk. The crash was probably partly a factor of the narrow trails and a very short finishing leg, I was accelerating at a much high rate than him in front of me, but the finish lanes didn't start for another 50 meters, so he pretty much directed me straight off the course with a few ski stomps. So pissed. But, whatever, still have the speed. Just need to get the balance back.


The Last Gift Day, #12! ..... what is it?



A New Attitude


No goodies, just waxing philosophical.

What are you hung up on? Simply reading Attackpoint threads is the perfect example of the many, many people who just plain ol' need a new attitude. They need an open mind, they need to be more patient, they need to be more creative, there's something about orienteering that's holding it back because so many people are just absolutely stuck on one outlook and cannot look past it.

If there's anything you can give your orienteering friend this year, its an open mind, a willingness to try new things, a brand new outlook on making their own orienteering career, and orienteering as a sport, more awesome.