Training Archive: jimaIn the 7 days ending 2008-03-15:
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Saturday Mar 15 | ||
| Run warm up/down 5:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Gray Nike XCR | ||
| Warm up for the snowshoe race in Biddeford. Snowing (big fat flakes) so I was glad I'd thought to put in my contacts. Slush on the parking lot and the road sides. | ||
| Snowshoe race 35:22 [4] 4.5 km (7:52 / km) | |
| shoes: TSL Racing Snowshoes | ||
| Acidotic Racing's 3d snow shoe race of the season at Rotary Park in Biddeford, ME.
4.5 km course. Snowing, but just around freezing, so conditions were soft. There was still decent snow cover, except in a few spots. The older snow was heavy and slushy in many places and it moved around, rather than packing down. Made for interesting footing. Wasn't in the lead group, but was in 3d position in the second pack (with a slower runner in the lead) for about the first 1/2 - 3/4 k, then did some passing. As it was mainly single track, it took a lot of effort to get out and around, but don't think I took any out as I did so. Got passed by a young woman shortly after that, so she must have escaped the group also. Stayed on her tail for the next K or so, then a pack of 3 started creeping up on me. Another woman got past me, then we hit a few hills. Kept looking back expecting the other 2 in the pack to catch me, but I seemed to be maintaining a lead. Some pretty serious hills towards the end - focused on maintaining a high tempo with short strides for as long as I could before slowing to a walk. Seemed to work, as I closed the gap to my front and kept in front of those behind me. Didn't catch up to and pass anyone else in front of me, but stayed ahead of the 2 folks on my tail - felt pretty proud of myself for that. Splits 2 km - 13:22 3 km - 8:33 / 21:56 4 km - 8:48 / 30:44 last 1/2 km - 4:38 Recognized many folks from the previous 2 races. Had a chat with a guy who has a place over in Gilford - triathlon seemed to be his main focus. Was telling some war stories about the Mt Washington Road race. Was wearing my US Ski-O warmup jacket - a few folks asked about Ski-O and O. One woman asked "do you know Bob Lux?" Turned out she's Bob's lunchtime running partner Diane. | ||
| C • running partner 2 | ||
Tuesday Mar 11 | ||
| XC Ski (skating) 25 [2] 6 km (4 / km) +120m 4 / km | |
| Hard glazed surface. Back still a bit problematic, so wasn't enjoying this a lot.
Had swapped out old bindings of a pair of skis I've had forever and put on a pair of SNS profil skate bindings. Think I messed up the alignment a bit - right heel was catching on the center ridge with each landing on that side. Need to see what I can do with some epoxy and more careful drilling. It was fast. Per the GPS, hit over 30 kmph on the last hill coming in, hit 25 k on a couple others. Not as enjoyable when it's hardslick ice bisquits underfoot, thinking if I crash and burn, this is going to hurt... | ||
| Snowshoe 11:00 [2] 1.2 km (9:10 / km) +35m 8:00 / km | |
| shoes: TSL Racing Snowshoes | ||
| Skiing wasn't working ofr my back, I had my snowshoes in the car and a few minutes before I needed to head back for a meeting.
Well, snowshoeing is not a lot easier on a bad back, especially if you try to run, downhill, on hard pack. Was another guy out there skiing, said he'd never seen anyone running on snowshoes before. Just gave him a smile and a shrug, made it around the corner and dropped down to a walk. Short loop, picking branches off the trail, so if they groom again, there won't be wood chunks everywhere. | ||
Sunday Mar 9 | ||
| XC Ski (skating) 58:00 [3] 12.75 km (4:33 / km) +265m 4:07 / km | |
| shoes: White/Red/Black Fischer Skatin | ||
| After a couple of days of pretty hard rain and some high wind, the conditions were pretty darn good. They'd groomed most of the network and all the stuff they'd hit was skiable. The stuff they groomed first had still been wet and hardened up pretty solid, but it wasn't quite life threatening. The parts they'd groomed later were a bit less set up and in very good shape. Stopped several times to clear branches, etc off the trails.
Had wrenched my back earlier in the day, but really wanted to ski, so ignored the twinges and went out anyways. Felt stiff and off balance a few times, but no crash and burns. Hit 25 kmph at least 3 times - good fast conditions... | ||