Training Archive: jimaIn the 7 days ending 2008-01-19:
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Saturday Jan 19 | ||
| XC Ski (classic) 1:00:00 [3] 10.25 km (5:51 / km) +250m 5:13 / km | |
| shoes: Fischer Classic Wax | ||
| nice conditions, missed the wax a bit. Snow set up nice and hard. Some sections must have been groomed while it was still warmer, and they iced in as-is. Had on Extra Blue over just a bit of old violet klister. Needed more klister - was slipping a lot. Less of a problem in the sun where it was starting to warm up and loosen up a bit.
Talked to Jane - many trails still had gaps with water still flowing across - needs a bit more time to re freeze and then get some new snow on top. They finally started roping off trails - sounds like they had a few complaints from folks running into bare spots... Some of the downhills almost scary - hard fast tracks that weren't very forgiving. Get going a bit too fast, pop out of the tracks (generally on a steep downhill curve) and be as graceful as a cow on ice. Didn't seem to be a lot of folks out on the trails, but the downhill area was packed - sending folks to the overflow parking lot at 10:00 am... | ||
| Snowshoe 38:00 [3] 3 km (12:40 / km) +140m 10:16 / km | |
| There's going to be a snowshoe race at Gunstock next Saturday - thought it would be good to get out and "train" at least once. A bit awkward at first, especially on the hard packed ski trails. The claws would grab with no glide - duh, they're snowshoes, not skis.
Couldn't seem to take long strides, felt more like a shuffle. My snowshoes are probably bigger than a good racing one would be - although I did splurge this fall and pick up a pair of artificial ones. Have been a purist, snow shoes are supposed to be made with ash frames and rawhide webbing, with leather bindings. Aluminum frames with a plastic/rubber fabric "webbing" and plastic and nylons strap bindings just seems wrong... Felt that way about plastic XC skis at one time too. Got over it... Went out the stadium, and around the east side of Cobble Mtn, then up and over the top of Cobble - it's very different on the singletrack snowshoe trail. First, it's pretty damned steep going up, and there was a bit of crust. One person had been through already, but my snow shoes were wider, so I was hitting on both sides. Interesting coming down. It was a lot more forgiving on the softer snow - the claws had a bit of give, so it was less of a hard plant. Could be fun in a race situation. | ||
Friday Jan 18 | ||
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| Other than shoveling some not-so-fluffy white off the driveway just as it changed from snow to sort-of freezing rain.
Working from home today as the plumber was suppoed to be here first thing to put in the heat in the new bedroom, and hopefully also finish the plumbing for the new master bath. He got here about 1:30, and left before 4:00, having only installed the housing for the heat - laid out the heat elements, but didn't even start sweating them together yet. Matt and Nicole and the kids stopped by. Had to do some outdoor time with Ryan - a lot of energy for two years old... | ||
Tuesday Jan 15 | ||
| XC Ski warm up/down (skate) 46:00 [2] 6.75 km (6:49 / km) +150m 6:08 / km | |
| shoes: Peltonen Skate Skiis | ||
| Easy evening ski under a partial moon on the 12" of new powder.
Pretty good conditions, a few spots where the thaw was still evident - a few spots starting to freeze over (or under) again, but some spots, particularly coming across 2 where it was still pretty wet and warm. Tried to get some better elevations for my GNA project - feeling guilty about how long it's taking. I think I've been rushing when I've been trying for clean runs, where the FRWD has a good lock and seems to follow the terrain on the elevation piece. Also need to cleanly define the intersections - those seem to be fuzzy. Head lamp working much better, figured out how to get it off the "turn off in 3 minutes automatically" mode, but the the batteries ran down. Did the last half almost exclusively by moonlight and had a blast. When the swapped out the batteries back at home, the cover broke,so need to send it in to the PhotonLight folks for a warranty repair. | ||
Monday Jan 14 | ||
| Note | |
| 10-12" of new white stuff - a welcome change from the January thaw we've been in.
Spent too long clearing the driveway and other areas - didn't have time to get out and ski or snowshoe. | ||
Sunday Jan 13 | ||
| Run (trails) 31:00 [2] 3.3 km (9:24 / km) +175m 7:26 / km | |
| shoes: Gray Nike XCR | ||
| Trail run on Mt Rowe. Gunstock trails were mostly washed out and/or glare ice, except for the few GNA groomed for their race this morning. Took a wuss pill last night, so didn't go over to race.
Wish I had left my studded O shoes in the car from yesterday. In the shade it was very hard and slick. it did soften up where the sun had been hitting it for a while. Went down on my ass a couple of times. On downhills, tried hitting with a straight leg right onto my heel to bust into the crust a bit. Worked for the most part, except once. I went right on my butt and started sliding down the trail. lifted one cheek to avoid a potentially disastrous encouter with a protruding chunk of ice... Worked my way over to the side of the trail and got into the stuff that the snocat hadn't touched - was able to drive my heels into that and stop. Snowshoes, with the claws, would have been a good thing. There's going to be a snowshoe race at GUnstock on the 26th - 5k, including an up and over Cobble Mtn. | ||