Saturday Dec 29 |
 | Skate Skiing 2:25:00 [2]35 km (4:09 / km) | |
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| Met some friends at Hyland in Bloomington for a group ski and a little coaching. Skied very easy and stopped a number of times for the first hour. They left and I kept going. Felt great the entire way. |
Friday Dec 28 |
| Classic Skiing (with Chariot) 55:00 [1]4 km (13:45 / km) | |
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| Lebanon Hills with Molly, Jasper and Rena in the Chariot. Very fun. |
| Classic Skiing 35:00 [3]8 km (4:22 / km) | |
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| After the family ski, Molly agreed to hang out with the kids in the Lebanon Hills Visitor Center so I could ski. Pushed pretty hard and had a fun ski. Classic is such a blast. |
Thursday Dec 27 |
| Classic Skiing 1:30:00 [2]18 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Afternoon ski at Lebanon Hills with Molly. It was awesome. I was surprised that tracks hadn't been set yet. In a typical first classic ski of the season I totally missed the wax. I think I should have started with red. (26 degrees air temp.) I applied some late and it seemed better, but I am not sure. Need to re-read kick wax info. Molly was on grip tape and that definitely was not the way to go. Had there been tracks I thinks she would have been set.
Distance is total guess. A nice easy ski with a number of stops. |
Wednesday Dec 26 |
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| Driving back from Green Bay. we had talked about stopping at Nine Mile Forest in Wasau, but I was the only one awake at that point, so there was no way i was slowing down.
When we got home we went for a great walk in the fresh snow. |
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| C • my favorite place to ski in... 3 |
Tuesday Dec 25 |
| Trail Running 30:00 [3]3.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Vasque Blur 2 |
| Easy run, but in various snow depths made it slow. I went to light the wood burning stove in my brother-in law's hunting shack for a planned family expidition later. then I continued through the woods and then along a snowmobile trail back to the shack to check on the fire. Then back to the house. |
| Classic Skiing 30:00 [1]2 km (15:00 / km) | |
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| Skied with Jasper to the hunting shack towing Rena in the Chariot. Conditions varied from dirt and gravel to 8 inches of windblown snow. On the way back Molly pulled Rena and Jasper and I cut across the cornfield. Maybe the first time I've ever skied in a cornfield. Highlight of the ski was following Jasper up a slight hill and realizing that he left perfect herringbone tracks in the fresh snow. That's my boy.
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| A very fun afternoon at the huntin' shack. Games of "thicket", a candycane hunt in the woods, and watching a possum flushed by a coon dog actually play possum.
Rena was a trooper and didn't want to be inside. Jasper and his cousins played non-stop for nearly 2 hours out in the snow. |