Wednesday Jan 31 |
 | xc classic skiing 1:00:03 [3] | |
| ahr:133 weight:171.6lbs |
| at French with Kari...nice conditions..decent track...nice night.....I wish sundays race temps would be similar to this night...... |
Tuesday Jan 30 |
| trail running 58:26 [3] | |
| ahr:129 weight:170.8lbs |
| ....another snowy trail run with Kari piecing together deer trails, single track, Medicine Lake, and some bushwacking to avoid ski trials...kept it interesting,,,,,its gonna be cold for the Loppet Sunday....need to find my wind briefs!...... |
Monday Jan 29 |
| xc skate skiing 50:03 [3] | |
| ahr:134 weight:173.4lbs |
| skied French....they have done a great job grooming what they have...some sections were closed because of the bare spots but the rest was groomed very well including a decent track throughout..... |
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| C • skate ?? 6 |
Saturday Jan 27 |
| xc skate skiing race 1:04:45 [4] | |
| ahr:169 max:195 |
| Pre Loppet race....tried starting smooth with the idea that this would be a hard workout...I was shocked to see that my Heart Rate Average for the race was 169 and at some point on the course I had hit 195 bpm!...and I felt like I was only going about 90%...my results were ok...nothing special but it felt good to race and enjoy the post race endorphins...the course was very sketchy in places and it was a small victory not to have dumped it at least once.....I did manage to move around a fallen racer on the scariest downhill on the course when I thought I was headed for his head for a few seconds....sometimes its the little victories... |
| xc skate skiing 10:00 [2] | |
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| ski warmup before race..... |
Friday Jan 26 |
| xc skate skiing 53:11 [3] | |
| ahr:142 weight:170.8lbs |
| skiing at French where the warm weather has created two burned through area....no worries for my circa 1989 Rossi skate skis that I use at rocks skis...I walked over the dirty spots and kept on trucking....95% of the trail is great but todays warm weather caused some melting....I wonder how the loppet trail is fairing??... |
Thursday Jan 25 |
| xc classic skiing 59:36 [2] | |
| ahr:122 weight:170.6lbs |
| ...another nice night and good classic skiing at French with Kari...some places are getting worn and dirt is starting to show in small patches...I will likely doing the Pre Loppet 15K skate race on Saturday morning to get a hard ski workout in.....Im looking forward to the City of Lakes Loppet 25K Classic coming up... |
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| C • Classic ! 3 |
Wednesday Jan 24 |
| trail running 36:39 [3] | |
| ahr:135 weight:171lbs |
| ...another trail run in the snow with Kari on single track and frozen lakes around French....really nice outside and easy to see with the snowy landscape..... |
Tuesday Jan 23 |
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| made a decision to ski classic at the Birkie this year...just wasnt feeling it for skating it again after last years last 10k suffer fest and feeling like it was the same old, same old after 16? of them....with the new 9k trail at the start and a big recommendation from MAJ I decided to spice my life up with change....also, I have mainly classic skied this year...I am also planning to ski the 25k City of Lakes Classic and perhaps keep my 42K classic sign up at Mora (although I might mix it up and do the 35K skate there....
change is good.... |
| xc classic skiing 1:06:30 [2] | |
| ahr:124 |
| skied classic at French with Kari....they have done a good job grooming some shallow tracks...nice night to be out....Kari is getting better with technique at every outing...me?, not so much...I'm just trying to hold on to what I got..... |
Monday Jan 22 |
| xc skate skiing 44:05 [3] | |
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| skied some firm laps at French...nice conditions in this low snow situation.... |
| xc skate skiing 12:00 [4] | |
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| ...this is the 4 intesity segments of my skate ski session...pushed here and there to stay ahead of other smarty pants that thought they were faster than me....some were and some weren't..... |
Sunday Jan 21 |
| trail running 51:07 [3] | |
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| snowy trail run on single track and inlet frozen bays at French with Kari....interesting run as we ran over varied terrain... |
Saturday Jan 20 |
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| planning a Wirth to Uptown ski day on this day....Ive always wanted to get a group together and ski from Wirth to Uptown on the Loppet trail and then end up having a meal and beers in Uptown afterwards....people can take short cuts as necessary (there are many) to reach the end point at the same time.....Saturday Kari and I are going to park a car in uptown and classic on the waxless to there....perhaps this will be the beginning of a new tradition...touring the loppet trail with no race pressure....just a good time....and since we will be moving to the SouthWirth apartments in March this will be even easier....yes, we will be living just 20 meters from the Wirth O map and 30 meters from the mt bike trails at Wirth....and about 200 meters from the loppet ski trail..... |
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| C • Sweet idea 3 |
| xc classic skiing 3:02:13 [3] | |
| ahr:126 |
| we skied most of the loppet trail from Wirth to Uptown....fantastic day....some places had decent tracks and some didnt but we ended up in Uptown for a late lunch at the Independent...good long ski workout... |
Friday Jan 19 |
| Run 30:02 [3] | |
| ahr:134 |
| quick treadmill run with 10 minutes of pickups... |
Thursday Jan 18 |
| xc classic skiing 1:12:18 [2] | |
| ahr:117 |
| classic skiing with Kari at French...easy ski...nice night....no tracks but it we had a good time.... |
Wednesday Jan 17 |
| Run 41:01 [3] | |
| weight:170.4lbs |
| treadmill run inside.....about 7 minutes of hard running thrown in.... |
Tuesday Jan 16 |
| xc skate skiing 51:39 [3] | |
| ahr:138 weight:170.8lbs |
| ....rare early before work ski at French...the track was a bit bumpy giving me that "I aint skiing that well feeling" but it felt great to have my workout done early.... |
Sunday Jan 14 |
| Run 56:04 [3] | |
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| run on neighborhood streets with Kari....felt sluggish... |
Saturday Jan 13 |
| xc classic skiing 2:05:07 [2] | |
| ahr:138 |
| loops at Elm Creek...skiing with Kari.....conditions were good as always....Im not on top of my ski training for marathons...I might be able to ski a decent 25K race but more is suspect....and you never know what races will be able to be held at this point... |
| xc classic skiing 30:00 [5] | |
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| race pace loops at Elm Creek....incoporated into longer ski..... |
Thursday Jan 11 |
| xc skate skiing 51:16 [4] | |
| ahr:154 weight:171lbs |
| ...loops at Elm Creek...very fast....a million people there for a high school meet....I stayed out of the way of the relay racers... |
Wednesday Jan 10 |
| Run 1:00:00 [3] | |
| weight:171.8lbs |
| run on streets with Kari near Wirth after checking out some apartments...nice night... |
Tuesday Jan 9 |
| Run 44:12 [3] | |
| weight:172.2lbs |
| neighborhood street run with Kari....wondering what kind of xc ski season or race season can be salvaged.....I am woefully under trained in skiing.... |
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| C • X-C ski season? 3 |
Sunday Jan 7 |
| Orienteering 1:18:11 [2] | |
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| putting out last minute control, control checking,and control retrieval after the Lake Elmo Adv Run and O meet....had a decent turnout with 50 Adventure Runners and 30 or so O meet participants....everyone seemed to have a good time socializing in the warmth after the event...... |
Saturday Jan 6 |
| Orienteering 1:41:45 [3] | |
| ahr:122 |
| putting out flags for Lake Elmo Adv Run and O meet with Kari...we had a good time and moved along pretty well...Jerritt took half the course and we checked those flags also... |
Thursday Jan 4 |
| Orienteering 1:04:15 [3] *** | |
| ahr:144 weight:169.6lbs |
| I called it Orienteering but I ran with Jerritt as he located 7 controls at Elmo..(you missed noting two Jerritt)....had to reset the course to keep people off of the lakes....funny that Jerritt's 2 is an "upper 3" for me....I shut my watch off before our futile attempt to find a mapped ruin but could have easily included it...... |
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| C • did you look at the map at all ? 4 |
Wednesday Jan 3 |
| Orienteering 3:29:03 [2] | |
| ahr:122 weight:171.4lbs |
| setting the Lake Elmo Adv Run course....some back and forth, control picking and taping slowed me down... |
Tuesday Jan 2 |
| xc classic skiing 1:09:08 [2] | |
| ahr:114 |
| skied easy at French Park with Kari...it was great out....no tracks but the skiing wasnt bad... |
Monday Jan 1 |
| Run 35:01 [3] | |
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| run in fresh snow with Kari in Poplar Wi., Duluth has no snow....brisk and clear blue skies...a little exercise before heading back to the cities... |
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| ended the year with 372 training hours...averaged 7.16 hours/week...I have never calculated it before but I assumed I averaged 7 hours/week so my assumptions were very close....this marks my 23rd consecutive year of aerobic training and my 22nd year of multisport training, averaging about 7 hours/week...if I am proud of anything I am proud of my consistency...that amount/week works for me for my goals and well being....more of the same for 2007 although I recently am considering dropping down to shorter ski race distances....after skiing appx 3/4 ski marathons each year I find my desire to train long on ski's is waning.....I love to ski but 1:30 to 2 hour training sessions are all I am motivated to do...I will probably ski 20 Birkies (I think I have skied 16/17?) and then ski the half marathon distances from then on... |