Training Log Archive: Mark3

Sunshine all day. Up to the top of grand montets, 3300m or so. Stunning. Queue was tedious though.

Olly fell over into me and snapped my carbon fibre pole which is a bit annoying. I'm hoping he's going to offer to buy me another one.

Flat light all day, making moguls tricky. I'm glad I put in all the skisit work over the past month.if I keep them up for another year I reckon it will make a real difference. Did most of le tour in the morning, and all of Argentiere in the afternoon.

If running only involved the thighs I'd come back invincible.


Tried out garmins 'ultratrac' gps functionality which saves battery by reducing the time the gps is on.rather predictably this is ludicrously bad for skiing - might be ok for walking/OMMing though.

Not a lot of sleep last night - flight landed about 9pm, then a bit of delay collecting the hire car, then a lot of a delay driving to Argentiere (none of my skiing colleagues can navigate, even using Google maps! I like driving, but I wished I'd been holding a map instead), then nowhere was open for dinner...we ended up with takeaway gourmet burgers about 1:30am. This was a new experience for me.actually...They were really good.

Another faff driving to les houches and then back to chamonix again due to the world cup races in les houches meaning the whole place was packed - they had closed a lane of duel carriageway to use as a car park - and then trying to drive a car without winter tires or snow chains up a hill (note to self - not possible without major pushing)...anyway.stressful.

But then good skiing from about 11am. Changeable conditions - zero visibility for 30 mins then bright sunshine and clear blue skies for 10, then gale force winds and hail...character building stuff.beats being at work.bring on tomorrow.

Note - hanging around with 4 actuarial contractors and a law contractor is making me seriously consider contacting.

6x(600m(200jog),400m(400jog))

Another one of Keith's ways of breaking up 8x1km I think (I couldn't handle all 8 - there were only 6 of us and I was a good 5s behind everyone; this made it psychologically really hard).

600s: 2:08,02,04,03,03,05
400s: 78,78,77,78,79,78

I think that given the session (ie no stationary recovery), these aren't too bad. I probably would've done another two if more people had been there.it's the Weston prom race tomorrow, and the night race.But I'm going skiing!

EDIT: Just seen that we did this session in dec 2014 and I did it better then by a few seconds per rep-doh!

Packing for skiing tonight so I can do the track session tomorrow

6x[400(60s),200(60s),200(3mins)]

400s: 78,75,76,74,73,73
200s: 34,34,34,34,33,34,34,34,34,34,34,34

Great running conditions; cold (1 deg) but no wind.

Pretty well paced, was really starting to feel the lactic by the end - shaky legs.