Training Archive: SwampfoxIn the 7 days ending 2008-02-02:
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Saturday Feb 2 | ||
| skiing 1:35:00 [3] | |
| New snow, nice ski. | ||
| run 58:00 [3] | |
| Hoped for moose missing. | ||
| Note | |
| Because of snowfall, the swampfox did not see his shadow and I doubt the badger did either, so theoretically the coast is clear! | ||
Friday Feb 1 | ||
| run 21:00 [3] | |
| Another proper day in Laramie: sun over the valley, snow over the Snowies, big wind running everywhere, and the Big Road shut down again. | ||
| C • How many days does I-80 hav... 2 | ||
| skiing 1:28:00 [3] | |
| Chill. | ||
| biking 1:28:00 [2] | |
Thursday Jan 31 | ||
| skiing 37:00 [3] | |
| Quick mid-day ski. It was a little windy out. Translation: by any normal human being standard, it was *really* windy out. The ranchers were all busy deploying cow anchors, so their beeves wouldn't blow away. Call me the breeze!
Skiing later in the afternoon should be extra fun! | ||
| skiing 1:39:00 [3] | |
| The winds backed off a teensy bit in late afternoon (or did it only feel that way in the trees?) but a vast conspiracy of truckers with their trucks in the Wal-Mart parking lot hinted at road closures further west again. The hotels looked like they were doing pretty bang-up business too. | ||
| C • hotels 2 | ||
| biking 1:26:00 [2] | |
Wednesday Jan 30 | ||
| skiing 1:32:00 [3] | |
| The ambients weren't so bad. But the perceiveds ruled, and it felt cold! Ahhh, so fine!
And some portions of I-80 even re-opened today, even better. While I skied, I tried not to think about the mounting evidence that the new weasel Attorney General is looking more and more like the old weasel Attorney General. Instead, I concentrated on my new vocabulary for the day, which included the standout word "dikfore". So much to learn, and so few hours in the day! | ||
| C • What's a dikfore? 2 | ||
| Note | |
| Given all the recent focus on Kansas, it is almost astounding that ESPN has the Texas-Texas A&M game on instead of K. State at Kansas. What the heck is going on??? Is this proof that sub-morons have taken over at ESPN? | ||
| biking 1:36:00 [2] | |
Tuesday Jan 29 | ||
| skiing 1:07:00 [3] | |
| Day 5 of the windstorm. Some people imagine that by the time the 5th and 6th days roll around, the winds are surely dwindling and about to go into doldrums. That may be true in some of the wussier spots on the earth, but around here, if you get to Day 5, that's a sure sign that the momentum is only building, and that was certainly true today. I-80 was closed nearly the whole way across the state because of the wind. Driving up to Happy Jack was so weird, because the interstate had turned into a total Ghost Road! Not a single other vehicle in sight. Sure, it's not the DC Beltway, but still, to have no other cars on the road has an other-worldly feel to it, almost as if the only possible explanation was giant metal eating spaghetti monsters slurping up the rigs as they struggled up the Gangplank.
The snow was extra slow today. A lot of last night's snow became windblown. I have no idea what it is about windblown snow that makes it so slow, but it is. | ||
| Yowsa!!! 1 [1] | |
| run 37:00 [3] | |
| Freezing hands, face, and especially feet meant that I has happy to to do just a short loop on some of the Crow Creek trails. It must have gotten chillier than the forecasts called for; the 60 mph gusting winds definitely only added to the fun! | ||
| Note | |
| Interesting article about whether or not the Galapagos can survive the Rosstopher. I can't pretend to understand the scientificese, but even so I think I can guess at how it all ends.
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/travel/27gree... | ||
| biking 1:34:00 [2] | |
Monday Jan 28 | ||
| run 1:00:00 [3] | |
| Day 4 of the epic windstorm. Massive winds were blasting the valley, and the wind generation facility's governor had kicked in so that the facility wouldn't shake itself apart. | ||
| skiing 1:18:00 [3] | |
| Note | |
| In honor of ebuckley's early tax filing, I played "Taxman" several times through tonight.
"If five percent should appear too small, Be thankful I don't take it all. 'cause I'm the Taxman, Yeah, I'm the Taxman, And I've got muscles you won't believe!" (disclosure: I added that last line) | ||
| biking 1:21:00 [2] | |
Sunday Jan 27 | ||
| skiing 1:43:00 [3] | |
| Day 3 of big winds, the biggest so far, even bigger than certain well known O' personality's upper legs, and 3 days running means we are now in a full scale windstorm. Yeehaw!
Very mild in town, and for a few afternoon hours meltwaters were gushing down the streets. Some of the savvier Laramie denizens even set up lawn chairs in their front yards and fished for winter salmon in the streets--the word was they were biting hard, especially on corn giblet baits. The trails were flat smacked with innumerable wee skiers. Nice to see so many folks out enjoying the outdoors! | ||
| run 52:00 [3] | |
| Ran on some of the off-piste' trails at Happy Jack. | ||