Training Log Archive: 'Bent

Snowgaine day 2.
Always a bit rough waking up on day 2.
Sadly we'd decided again not to ski due to road-running sections. Bash had packed a spare set of snowshoes so I used those. I was on my spare compass too.

Bright, sunny and a bladder-hose-freezing -17 to start but warmed up throughout the day to almost spring skiing weather.

Bash had seen that we were doing surprisingly well on day 1 (Leading our Masters Co-ed category) so stayed up late rethinking our plan for max points rather than an easier day out.
We got a lot of controls fairly early on in the western end, before heading North and around.
Bash's nav was right on, and we executed the extended plan well, getting some of the controls that were a bit of a stretch goal.

Great ending to a weekend of excellent racing. Bash and I had a ton of fun and raced well, despite my equipment issues.

Official results aren't in yet, but WT (Bob and Scotty) cleaned the course and finished early for the overall win.

Harps and Jack also cleaned the course to win open male.

Alex Provost and Karine won Co-ed.

Bash and I won our category too, although it's unclear if they called us Super-Veteran, Veteran co-ed or Veteran. If it was Veteran, WT was in our category so we would be second to them.

C • pace 9

CNYO Snowgaine day 1. with Bash.
We drove down the day before in stupid-heavy snow from the 1000 islands on, and met the big Canadian contingent for dinner.

Day 1 started with deep snow, and really cold. Bash and I decided to ski day 1 and got changed. We got the maps 30 min before the start, and then decided to snowshoe as many controls were in deep gullies, river crossings, etc. I got cold feet re-changing back to snowshoe eqpt.

Bash has been dealing with a heel injury so we didn't plan a ton of running, and planned to go South but drop a couple of controls.

Right off the start I found my Silva wrist compass froze up, and my chest map board holder broke. (Luckily I had a neck-strap map case). Other than that it was great snowshoeing in winter wonderland, and we warmed up well.

We had a good day out- The plan was ambitious but good, and other than one false start to a control where we had to backtrack, and another we missed due to a map fold and had to double back thing went well. We made it all the way down to the bottom of the map where we ran without snowshoes. I found I had a broken snowshoe binding strap but always carry repair stuff.
We ran the snowshoe trails but mostly stomped in the bush.
We headed back up, got our whole plan done and made it in with a few min to spare. Tiring day but a good one.

Team Canada mostly had a very good day but poor Wokitoki fell into a river and looked pretty rough.

Nice Winter Wonderland ski in fresh powder. Last night's tracks are gone!
I love my commute.

High winds forecast for the afternoon- may need to catch a ride home, but still worth it.

Workout 1 and rehab

Snowmaggedon so far only dropped 2 cm of light fluff over hardpack, with ice in some spots and treacherous breakable crust early on, where it was a bit tricky to skijor with the enthusiastic Bazingadog.

Much better night ski home on fresh powder. Skis were quick!

Drove Adventuredog to work. Poor little guy- his shoulder/ elbow is worse and he can't run to work or even hike.
Xrays are OK, so some sort of soft tissue injury.

Crusty run in and slushy run home with the big guy on his long line.