Training Archive: SwampfoxIn the 7 days ending 2007-12-08:
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Saturday Dec 8 | ||
| skiing 1:19:00 [2] | |
| Skiing debut for the 2007-2008 season, at the Happy Jack trails. Pretty decent snow cover considering how the trails looked on Tuesday, and--more importantly--no falls! To top it off, it was all but dead calm, which almost never happens.
I had to take it easy with my left arm, but it's coming around. All the skiers I saw were very happy. It was almost as cold out as it would be for a typical Possum Trot. brrrrr! | ||
| Yowsa!!! 1 [1] | |
Friday Dec 7 | ||
| Yowsa!!! 1 [3] | |
| Yes, it's the first Yowsa!!! training of the day and the season. But probably not the last. | ||
| C • Is this like, what you say ... 3 | ||
| run 1:20:00 [2] | |
| Up in the hills; 4-5" new snow made for soft footing. Excellent! | ||
| biking 1:21:00 [2] | |
Thursday Dec 6 | ||
| secret mtn bike training 47:00 [3] | |
| Decided to try some off road biking to see if my arm could handle that yet, and basically it was fine for that. Looking snowy over in the Snowies, but not so much in the Laramies. : ( The forecasters are advising there is hope, however! | ||
| run 1:03:00 [2] | |
| I ran up at Happy Jack to scout some of the trails for myself, and confirmed that, yes, we need more snow, and that, yes, if you are willing to sacrifice some ski bases, some of the trails are skiable now.
But a big storm would help matters greatly, and the rumor is one is headed this way tomorrow! | ||
| biking 1:28:00 [2] | |
Wednesday Dec 5 | ||
| biking 37:00 [3] | |
| It might not have been cold out, but it was still too chilly to be riding without some gloves! | ||
| C • Fingers 2 | ||
| run 48:00 [2] | |
| Hip still pretty sore, but it feels entirely like a bruise on the outside of the hip, and as far as I can tell my little crash and burn didn't do anything to re-initiate the hip problem I had last year. But as a sound safety measure, I will keep my fingers crossed anyway. | ||
| biking 1:20:00 [2] | |
| While riding, I pondered the following headline from the NY Times: "Tax Stalemate Threatens Chaos as Filing Nears".
According to the article that followed, we are all already in the soup, but I wondered about that. Out here in the high altitude short grass prairie, beef is definitely what's for dinner, and that all but precludes any kind of wimpy soup stuff. Where is the Taxman when he is needed most as the doomsday scenario of tax filing chaos approaches? If only we had a Google map showing where he is and where he has been! Then maybe we could figure out where he was going to be, and sit back and enjoy a piece of fine Torino chocolate, content in the belief that everything was going to be alright. | ||
| C • It will probably be a pain ... 13 | ||
Tuesday Dec 4 | ||
| biking 47:00 [3] | |
| Thought about trying some light running, but then thought better of it and did a little biking around Laramie instead. | ||
| biking 1:23:00 [2] | |
Monday Dec 3 | ||
| biking 37:00 [2] | |
| Maybe not Sweet Home Chicago, but home sweet home at any rate, after finishing off the drive through Husker Country. The most interesting thing I saw in Nebraska today was, of all things, a camel out in a barn lot along with some horses, llamas, and cows. You don't normally expect to see camels in Nebraska.
The wind fortified considerably on the west side of Sidney, and by the Wyoming border it was blowing something proper. Warning signs on the interstate between Cheyenne and Laramia stated: Strong 60+ mph wind gusts. I don't know what the technical difference is between strong and ordinary 60+ mph wind gusts, but I do know what the practical difference is. And today the practical difference was a string of three semi-trailer rigs in a space of about a quarter mile that had been blown over just beyond Vedauwoo. It looked like they had probably been hit by one great gust all at the same time, and it also looked like it must have happened just before I was driving by, since one truck was still blocking a lane, and since the tow trucks hadn't arrived yet. The wind was really howling demons on that last stretch from there to the Visitors Center! Yesterday I violated the 2nd commandment of O', which is: Thou shalt not fall. An unseen tendril of barbed wire reached out and grabbed a foot, and I went down hard on a dry streambed of rocks. I was very glad to lay there and gradually realize I hadn't broken anything or cyclopsed myself, and to be able to get back up and start jogging out of there. Once I finished though, pretty much everything on my left side stiffened up quickly, and today I'm limping from a big bruise on my hip and I can't quite get my left arm up to the horizontal. Lifting anything much heavier than a book with that arm is a problem. But I was glad to find out that I can still exercise on a trainer without difficulty! And I'm guessing that in just a few days everything should heal up and be about normal again. Counterbalancing the smashup from the fall, I ended up with by far the fewest scratches I've ever had from a Possum Trot. Usually my legs end up with too many scratches to count and hamburgerish in appearance, but this time I only have two or three scratches, and they're tiny scratches at that. | ||
| C • what, no pictures?? 4 | ||
Sunday Dec 2 | ||
| Orienteering 2:02:00 [4] | |
| Possum Trot. Report to follow? Maybe. Fun weekend, and for the folks who missed it, too bad--you missed it.
Meanwhile, good news on the skiing front; reports out from Laramie state that grooming of the trails has commenced today. Yea! On the way back home, I stopped at several places in Nebraska for rest breaks, and I asked a few people each time if they had heard about the Possum Trot results and what their race analysis was, but all anyone wanted to talk about was the new Nebraska Head Coach. Very baffling, eh? | ||
| C • skiing 5 | ||