Training Archive: 'BentIn the 7 days ending 2008-03-08:
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Saturday Mar 8 | ||
| Strength (Home gum) 1:00:00 [2] | |
| Workout #1. I rebuilt my ski map board between sets with much stronger material. (It broke in the Snowgaine.) | ||
| Snowshoeing (Snowshoeing) 20:00 [2] | |
| Out with Bash and the beasties. Bulletdog got 7 minutes of free range deep snow floundering. | ||
| XC Skiing 2:20:00 [3] | |
| Nice ski with Bash in Palgrave, breaking deep snow in a howling storm. Love it! Some good pics on Bash's log.
I discovered that zip ties don't work in cold- the little catches shatter. | ||
Friday Mar 7 | ||
| Hiking 20:00 [2] | |
| What was supposed to be an easy stroll on the crust with the hounds turned into a knee-deep postholing session. Probably zone 3 actually.
Bulletdog had her 6 minutes of off-leash freedom. | ||
| XC Skiing 50:00 [3] | |
| Palgrave West and the Charlevoix trail. The forecast snow's behind sched. Varied from nice powder to "Ayeeee" suicidal crust on some hills with sharp turns. | ||
| Note | |
| (injured) | ||
| Visited Thumbs-of-Death. Since the weekend incident, the knee hasn't been too bad, and T of D couldn't seem to replicate the pain. Until he moved my Fibula, where it connects with the Femur. Yep, that's the spot all right- locked right up, and I got my money's worth of pain, in the best way. Probably too much running on a surface sloping left, like the side of the road. | ||
Thursday Mar 6 | ||
| Note | |
Here's one for LeAnimal, Slice and Dogrunner.
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| Snowshoeing (Commute) 39:00 [3] | |
| Took one for the team today- Great ski trails but Bulletdog's finally allowed to walk to work so I broke trail for her on snowshoes, even though my knee'd rather ski.
She's allowed 5 minutes of free range dog time now, which she *loved*. | ||
Wednesday Mar 5 | ||
| Strength (Link +) 1:00:00 [2] | |
| K/O's Link workout, plus some extra leg strength work, and also the nastiest part of the Hard Core workout. | ||
| XC Skiing (Commute) 39:00 [3] | |
| (injured) | ||
| Yeah! More mid-shin powder to break trail through. What an amazing winter!
My knee was a bit dicey while slogging, so I'll take it easier on the way home. The trail will be broken by then anyway. | ||
| XC Skiing (Commute +) 35:00 [2] | |
| Easy ski home by headlamp. Excellent conditions in the woods, sun-crusted tracks in the open. Knee was fine when not breaking trail. | ||
Tuesday Mar 4 | ||
| Snowshoeing (Commute) 45:00 [1] | |
| (injured) | ||
| An easy clatter home with T-dog on the crust. She had me jogging at times, and the knee wasn't too bad.
Funny sort of relapse- It actually seemed to get better throughout the last 4 hours of the Snowgaine and isn't bad to walk on now. I doubt I can run roads yet. | ||
Sunday Mar 2 | ||
| XC Skiing (CNYO Snowgaine) 7:25:00 [3] | |
| (injured) | ||
| Day 2. See Bash's log for great pics.
A perfect sunny day with fresh powder everywhere. We had to start 33 minutes late due to penalty. I was limping to the car, and couldn't run a step so we took waxless skis today, even though many roads were now plowed and sanded. Skiing started out OK on the flats, but as soon as we started breaking trail my knee hurt so much I was ready to hurl. Bash broke trail and I staggered behind. We were paying more attention to a bailout plan than nav, and had a couple of very messy controls with dumb errors, more in tourist mode. I found I could double pole along well on the snowmobile trail, and after a while could do an old-man shuffle ski with straight legs up hills so we decided to try a few more. After a few hours and a ton of advil the pain was less, and I could get ahead of Bash instead of schlepping behind. Every few minutes I'd kneel in the snow to ice the knee. Even injured, the skiing was faster than snowshoeing/jogging, and we started knocking off controls pretty well on a plan B route. We saw that the Bobkittens were having a great day on skis over an hour ahead of us, and the skiing was absolutely fantastic despite the knee, in bright sun, no wind and snow-covered trees. We made it down to a road and walked in the last 2km, only to find that RF had finished ages ago and won overall! They had used snowshoes and no poles- amazing. The mighty Bobkittens were 2nd, we were 4th and Salomon 5th. Not a bad showing from Canada. Despite all the suffering, it was still a lot of fun, and a good road trip with our buddies. | ||
| C • hard core 2 | ||