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Sunday Jan 6, 2013 #
Event: Windblown Ski-O
10 AM
XC Ski - Classic warm up/down 10:08 1.95 km (5:12 / km) +39m 4:44 / km
ahr:125 max:149
Testing wax and seeing if I wanted to skate or have some kick.
Opted for quasi-classic, concerned about getting up narrow hills on completely slick skis.
Opted for quasi-classic, concerned about getting up narrow hills on completely slick skis.
Ski-O race 41:56 ** 6.37 km (6:35 / km) +165m 5:50 / km
ahr:148 max:159
Ski-O Red course.
A few bobbles, bad route to 1, then lost 2 minutes on #8 when I took the first right instead of the second, didn't dawn on me that I was on a wide trail versus a narrow one, then ended up on the wrong side of the pond. No one had bushwhacked across yet, so flipped around, and back a hundred meters or so.
Nice course design - good mix of wide and narrow, with some cut over options.
4th place, about a minute and a half out of first. About 30 seconds behind Ernst, then Ari Ofsevits in front of him and James Tasker taking the win. If only...
A few bobbles, bad route to 1, then lost 2 minutes on #8 when I took the first right instead of the second, didn't dawn on me that I was on a wide trail versus a narrow one, then ended up on the wrong side of the pond. No one had bushwhacked across yet, so flipped around, and back a hundred meters or so.
Nice course design - good mix of wide and narrow, with some cut over options.
4th place, about a minute and a half out of first. About 30 seconds behind Ernst, then Ari Ofsevits in front of him and James Tasker taking the win. If only...
Ski-O race 21:05 ** 3.56 km (5:56 / km) +61m 5:28 / km
ahr:146 max:159 shoes: '05 White/Red/Black Fischer Sk
Then did the yellow course as a sprint.
Had been to each of the controls, so it was easier, plus a chance to not make some previous mistakes.
Think skating would have been faster on Red - only one uphill where it would have made a big difference, and as Aims pointed out, there was a viable route around that cut sout some of the climb and was almost all on wider trails.
Think I won this - got Ernst by a few seconds.
Had been to each of the controls, so it was easier, plus a chance to not make some previous mistakes.
Think skating would have been faster on Red - only one uphill where it would have made a big difference, and as Aims pointed out, there was a viable route around that cut sout some of the climb and was almost all on wider trails.
Think I won this - got Ernst by a few seconds.
Saturday Jan 5, 2013 #
11 AM
XC Ski - Skate 2:01:42 10.0 km (12:10 / km) +22m 12:02 / km
ahr:118 max:155 shoes: '05 White/Red/Black Fischer Sk
GNA Ski clinic by Nina G - about 10 of us total.
Some neat drills and good pointers - things to work on this winter
Some neat drills and good pointers - things to work on this winter
Friday Jan 4, 2013 #
5 PM
XC Ski - Skate 43:48 8.57 km (5:07 / km) +196m 4:35 / km
ahr:147 max:161 shoes: '05 White/Red/Black Fischer Sk
Gunstock after hours. Had the place to myself. Most sections looked like they hadn't been groomed for a day or so, probably due to the thin cover. Dirty patches getting larger and a few more stones sticking through. Had one face plant on an uphill when my left ski stopped on a rock - better than on a downhill.
Tried to keep it calm and relaxed - by HR always spikes on uphills.
Tried to keep it calm and relaxed - by HR always spikes on uphills.
Snowshoe 55:21 3.96 km (13:58 / km) +66m 12:54 / km
ahr:132 max:155 shoes: RedFeather Race Snowshoes
Skiing wasn't enough, so swapped over to snowshoes and went out to hit some of my ski-o trails.
Predictably awkward on the first bit. Always feels like the pivot point is a bit too far forward on my foot, just behind my toes rather than right under the ball.
Might have been better to have had on larger snowshoes, since part of my goal was to pack out trails, the small footprint of the race shoes makes for less snow touched with each step. Had some challenges finding the right line in a few of the more open sections, need to remember which are the right trails for after the next snowfall to not keep doing short deadends on non-trails. Need more snow before skiing on many of these sections can be done without turning a good set of skis into rock skis.
Saw quite a few animal tracks out there - I know there's a few porcupines in the area, maybe some cat-like tracks as well.
Headlamp went dead towards the end. None of the getting dimmer, then flickering out - LED went from all on to absolutely nothing. Fortunately after about 30 seconds realized that with the low cloud cover and the amount of light reflecting from the downhill area just adjacent that there was plenty of light to see what I needed to see.
Felt much more graceful once I was back on the groomed trails and running back in.
Predictably awkward on the first bit. Always feels like the pivot point is a bit too far forward on my foot, just behind my toes rather than right under the ball.
Might have been better to have had on larger snowshoes, since part of my goal was to pack out trails, the small footprint of the race shoes makes for less snow touched with each step. Had some challenges finding the right line in a few of the more open sections, need to remember which are the right trails for after the next snowfall to not keep doing short deadends on non-trails. Need more snow before skiing on many of these sections can be done without turning a good set of skis into rock skis.
Saw quite a few animal tracks out there - I know there's a few porcupines in the area, maybe some cat-like tracks as well.
Headlamp went dead towards the end. None of the getting dimmer, then flickering out - LED went from all on to absolutely nothing. Fortunately after about 30 seconds realized that with the low cloud cover and the amount of light reflecting from the downhill area just adjacent that there was plenty of light to see what I needed to see.
Felt much more graceful once I was back on the groomed trails and running back in.
Tuesday Jan 1, 2013 #
10 AM
XC Ski - Skate 1:08:47 14.52 km (4:44 / km) +234m 4:23 / km
ahr:137 max:160 shoes: '05 White/Red/Black Fischer Sk
Morning ski at Gunstock before some family activities. Groomer had hit a lot of it overnight, so was in good shape.
About 14 miuntes tooling around to warm up, then did the ~ 4 km timetrial loop in 17:15. Need to work on relazing when I'm at "race pace". I can feel myself tightening up and workign hard against myself, but with no net increase in speed.
Saw Neal during my cool down - stopped and chatted for a while - he's cool on most of the proposed ski-o trails, but concerned about soem of the higher up stuff where someone would come barrel-assing down a 3 foot wide trail.
About 14 miuntes tooling around to warm up, then did the ~ 4 km timetrial loop in 17:15. Need to work on relazing when I'm at "race pace". I can feel myself tightening up and workign hard against myself, but with no net increase in speed.
Saw Neal during my cool down - stopped and chatted for a while - he's cool on most of the proposed ski-o trails, but concerned about soem of the higher up stuff where someone would come barrel-assing down a 3 foot wide trail.
3 PM
XC Ski - BackCountry 20:00 [1] 1.0 km (20:00 / km)
shoes: Rossignol BackCountry Skis
With Jennifer in the backyard - she is really catching on well. Persistent, must have fallen back on her butta couple down times, but pops back up (sometimes with Grampie's help) and keep on going. Amazing how many new trails we can create in under a half acre.
Had a lot of fun.
Had a lot of fun.
Monday Dec 31, 2012 #
10 AM
XC Ski - Skate 1:38:35 18.57 km (5:19 / km) +366m 4:50 / km
ahr:143 max:158 shoes: '02 Peltonen Skate Skis
Started out on my Peltonens, then switched to the Salomon Equipes. Good conditions, a few thin/brown spots, but all avoidable.
Fun - a few folks out, but not as many as I expected.
Fun - a few folks out, but not as many as I expected.