Training Log Archive: coach ld

Waited till this morning to drive up but despite it being very clear there was a wicked west wind still and many hard-packed icy spots all the way up Airport rd. Bit of white-knuckle driving with Elise. Cold conditions but TONS of new snow, almost 80 cm over the past 3 days! Soft, soft trail conditions but sooo nice. Great classic ski day. Skied at a nice steady pace with Connie O. for a full loop then came down to the chalet for the Trailblazer lunch.

It was Jackrabbit carnival day (finale) this morning and so the full trailblazer club decided to host a bbq lunch and fun relay this afternoon. They mixed up all ages, genders etc. into teams of 5 for a Parloff relay. We each did about 200m at a time for 4 legs. So much fun. There were abouta dozen teams and each had a tiny jackrabbit, a high school-aged comp. kid and a master or 2. It was a blast and the day had warmed just enough so that it wasn't squeaky slow and people chose to skate or classic as they wished. All this followed by full on kid-tossing into the deep soft snow where they disappeared briefly, and then a big snow war. Great day:)

Trail conditions this afternoon were too nice not to go out again:)

No dizziness this morning but still a bit tired.
No idea how far I actually skied today but it was slow with all the fresh and falling snow. The rail trail was mostly out of the wind but there were open places and some good drifts. Someone had skied some tracks in which made it easier in some places but they were obliterated in other spots by the wind, and new snow. Other than those tracks I could have been in the remote north. I saw no one, just a few cars when I crossed the main roads. It took almost an hour to get from the Palgrave pavilion to Gore Road. It was a bit faster back in my tracks. I explored a little loop near the wetland. There was no fence but I may have been trespassing? Then I popped into Albion Hills, and lo and behold it was nicely groomed!?! It's never like that! So I had to ski for a bit in there. It was really nice but I was getting tired by then. And the snow just kept coming.

Snowy. blowy day and I woke up with vertigo and felt crappy. Mrs. Huet called
wanting to get out and do something but the driving was pretty bad due to the high winds so we didn't drive anywhere to ski we just headed out from her house in Caledon East on snowshoes and meandered along the creek and marshy wetlands that lead to Innis Lake. It was perfect down there out of the wind but in beautiful sunshine, and it was the perfect pace for me today. Felt better moving outside but still didn't feel great.

Felt exhausted today. So just watched the snow come down all day an ddid chores. Went for a walk and then did balance, core strength and stretching.

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Met up with some other adventurers at Highlands: Chanse, Kelly, Hayden, the Greens, Connie O., Tessa, Shelley and Tom for Kelly's annual ski-down-the-escarpment to the Duntroon Church pancake dinner. So fun. We headed north across the Sampson farm field and over 91 to the Bruce trail. The snow conditions were a bit tricky since it's been warm then started cooling off. There was a bit of a crust but not enough to stay on top so we broke through a lot and it was fairly deep and soft underneath so when we feel, which we did a lot, we were stuck for a bit trying to get out of the mush. Pretty hilarious at times. Skiing down through the trees onto Lobsinger road was comdey. The road allowance east down off the escarpment was one big runway and fast!
Then it was across the 10th and over the fields down to Syndenham Trail and through the various Sinclair back fields and then out along the road on neighbours' front lawns. We crossed 124 carefully and skied in behind the old elementary school, where feats of strength and acrobatics had to be performed on the bars - with skis on. And finally on to the pancake supper which was excellent, especially the pie for dessert:).

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Another clear bright blue spring-like morning. Met Dee at Highlands for some skate work. We pretty much had the place to ourselves - the teaching area anyway. She worked her butt off! We had fun though and skied up top to take in the view in the sunshine. Goose and Tman lucked out big time as Dee left me a box of baked goodies that were much-appreciated when it came time for dessert tonight!

Dee headed home and I stayed up top for a good loop at a good pace just as the snow started getting soft and sticky in spots.

Goose and I were invited to ski early before work since he missed out on his evening ski last night. It was beautiful. The sun came up over the hills at the same time we did and the colours on the horizon were gorgeous water-colour pinks and blues. Beautiful. We're so lucky.

Fun lesson and ski on the front field with the UofT outers club group sponsored by Arc'teryx. They really enjoyed themselves and the weather couldn't have been better. All 30 of them headed out on the trails afterward and were having a great day.

Lessons with very capable adults who worked pretty hard to learn some skate techniques. They were loving it. Hard not to on a sunny day like today. It was getting very warm but the snow stayed pretty nice.

It was just too nice out not to go for another loop. The snow was sloppy and sticky and slow in some places in the sun but in the shady spots it was getting fast again. Chanse has groomed a new loop at the top of the golf course, at the Lookout with permission. It's a blast with turns and bumps. Rydlo's Romp?

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