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Monday Feb 28, 2011 #
10 AM
skate ski 1:53:58 [3] 14.4 km (7:55 / km) +349m 7:03 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
On the advice of Marc we headed down to Cogne in Italy, which sortof involved driving under Mont Blanc. Lots of snow up in the Cogne valley, which is a wickedly steep walled valley with lots of cliffs and frozen waterfalls. There's a marathon here, the Marcia Gran Paradiso, which looks like the course would be lots of fun except its classic. But the trails are nice, all in the bottom of the valleys out in three directions from Cogne, with a few crazy hills but mostly long slow climbs. Around freezing the whole time, some snow showers and some sun, but pretty nice, and Carol didn't die learning to skate either, which she somehow was already really good at.
2 PM
skate ski 1:42:21 [3] 12.27 km (8:20 / km) +320m 7:23 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Up the valley in the other direction towards Lillaz, which had lots more waterfalls. Apparently this place is pretty big for ice climbing in the winter, and I think we drove by the Grivel shop down in the main valley.
Sunday Feb 27, 2011 #
Note
Italy!
"I'm not sure which course this was, but it looks delicious..."
"Its a hockey puck of cheese, wrapped in bacon, and grilled."
"Excellent."
"I'm not sure which course this was, but it looks delicious..."
"Its a hockey puck of cheese, wrapped in bacon, and grilled."
"Excellent."
Saturday Feb 26, 2011 #
10 AM
skate ski 1:38:52 24.3 km (4:04 / km) +183m 3:55 / km
ahr:113 max:132 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Easy ski up the lakes before we all headed out for the train/plane adventures home. Or everybody else is at least, I'm on a train towards Geneva for a week of yet-to-be-determined playing, somewhere in this half of Europe.
Sweet week in Engadin, got in lots of good skiing and general playtime. It's awesome that when we all get together for a week of 'vacation' it just turns into a training camp anyway.
Oh yeah, and home got four feet of snow yesterday. Woot.
Sweet week in Engadin, got in lots of good skiing and general playtime. It's awesome that when we all get together for a week of 'vacation' it just turns into a training camp anyway.
Oh yeah, and home got four feet of snow yesterday. Woot.
8 PM
Note
Scoring list of the Engadin 24:
Biggins: 242 (74+76+51+41)
Boris: 87 (43+44)
Sam: 84 (25+9+50)
Ross: 75 (25+50)
Cristina: 23
There were definitely other participants involved, whether they knew it or not, or just missed the scoring signup sheet, or feared the reputational fallout of being associated with such foolishness.
Biggins: 242 (74+76+51+41)
Boris: 87 (43+44)
Sam: 84 (25+9+50)
Ross: 75 (25+50)
Cristina: 23
There were definitely other participants involved, whether they knew it or not, or just missed the scoring signup sheet, or feared the reputational fallout of being associated with such foolishness.
Friday Feb 25, 2011 #
10 AM
skate ski 3:28:14 41.64 km (5:00 / km) +719m 4:36 / km
ahr:110 max:141 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Skied with Ross from home down through St Moritz and Pontresina, then up that valley to Morteratsch and up to the foot of a big snowy glacier. Met Sandra and Sam and Cristina who took the bus there, sat at on some blue ice for a bit, then we all skied back home again. Warm and nice day, even if the snow was a little slow.
Thursday Feb 24, 2011 #
10 AM
skate ski 1:04:24 11.88 km (5:25 / km) +253m 4:54 / km
ahr:108 max:134 shoes: mystery mix-n-match
Morning ski with Cristina up over the ski jump to loosen up a bit.
5 PM
skate ski 1:38:07 26.86 km (3:39 / km) +229m 3:30 / km
ahr:134 max:146 shoes: mystery mix-n-match
Out for a ski just before dinner. It looked windy and cold, so I was planning to do some speedy pickup stuff to beat the last soreness out without getting cold for too long. But the wind was non existent and the snow was super fast, so i ended up going for a fast ski all the way up to maloja. Wandered up into the valley there for a bit looking for the hilly trail back home so I didn't have to go all the way back down the lake. But I got a little lost, and then it got dark, and then I got a little more lost. Found what I wanted eventually and headed home. It was snowy and fairly dark coming across the lakes, so some of the intersections involved feeling around carefully with the poles to find where the trail was. But I only skied completely off the trail at full speed once, so it's all good. And it was dark, so nobody saw the new greg sized hole in the snow.
Wednesday Feb 23, 2011 #
12 AM
skate ski 3:30:49 [3] 50.75 km (4:09 / km) +91m 4:07 / km
shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
Engadin 24 lap #3
Back home for warmth and food and water. Ross and Boris stayed up and made me hot things to eat, which was awesome. The plan for this whole endeavor was to try for 75km every 6 hours, and so far i was on schedule, but it was crystal clear and kept getting colder fast, so I decided to only go for 50km before coming back for more water and warmth. Took out the third pair of skis, the race skis which I put cold wax on, so it was wicked fast and I was feeling good for the first 25k (1:30!). But the temperature kept dropping, and by 2am the water bottle was frozen solid and the snow was sandpaper, and that was the end of that.
Back home for warmth and food and water. Ross and Boris stayed up and made me hot things to eat, which was awesome. The plan for this whole endeavor was to try for 75km every 6 hours, and so far i was on schedule, but it was crystal clear and kept getting colder fast, so I decided to only go for 50km before coming back for more water and warmth. Took out the third pair of skis, the race skis which I put cold wax on, so it was wicked fast and I was feeling good for the first 25k (1:30!). But the temperature kept dropping, and by 2am the water bottle was frozen solid and the snow was sandpaper, and that was the end of that.
6 AM
skate ski 3:25:00 [3] 41.42 km (4:57 / km) +528m 4:39 / km
shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
Lap #4
Ross set an alarm and got up to boil me more water, which was awesome since I was totally frozen. Ate a bunch, then decided it wasn't worth going out again yet to just freeze while not moving fast. Took a nap for 45 mins, then back out just before light. Turns out light doesn't help much for warming up the snow when you're in the bottom of the steep valley, so the sandpaper was still in full force until about 10. The thermometer at the house said 3F when I left, and that's a hundred meters above the valley floor, which was definitely colder. Headed up the hill by the ski jump to try to get above the cold, but it didn't help. Came back to the lakes after a couple hours to find sun, and looped the few km that were warming up at the end.
A bit of a disappointing second half, I wasn't really tired, just cold and frustrated. But still had a good first half, and beat the distance from two years ago by a bit. Full scores later. Boggle now.
Ross set an alarm and got up to boil me more water, which was awesome since I was totally frozen. Ate a bunch, then decided it wasn't worth going out again yet to just freeze while not moving fast. Took a nap for 45 mins, then back out just before light. Turns out light doesn't help much for warming up the snow when you're in the bottom of the steep valley, so the sandpaper was still in full force until about 10. The thermometer at the house said 3F when I left, and that's a hundred meters above the valley floor, which was definitely colder. Headed up the hill by the ski jump to try to get above the cold, but it didn't help. Came back to the lakes after a couple hours to find sun, and looped the few km that were warming up at the end.
A bit of a disappointing second half, I wasn't really tired, just cold and frustrated. But still had a good first half, and beat the distance from two years ago by a bit. Full scores later. Boggle now.
Tuesday Feb 22, 2011 #
Event: Engadin 24
10 AM
skate ski 5:06:00 [3] 74.1 km (4:08 / km) +1073m 3:51 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Engadin 24 Lap #1
Started across the road and then up under the ski jump. Down the other side and then doubled back over the bottom hill. Saw Marc and Boris heading the other way. Looped around and caught up with them and everybody else on the power lines on the other side of St Moritz. Up and down a wicked steep climb, leaving from the 'highpoint' of the marathon course, which is not so high. Back down and got lost in Pontresina for a while, past the bottom of the sledding hill, and then started off down the rest of the marathon course. Trail was ok except for the half km walk through the middle of that random town they groom through (sometimes). otherwise just a little windy and snowing. The last 5km sucks a lot to skate since the whole trail is on the sloping hillside so your uphill leg gets mucho tired. It got really snowy and cold at the end so I turned around and headed back up instead of checking out the rest of the trail down to Zernez, which is supposed to be good. Headed straight home, with minimal getting lost again in Pontresina.
Started across the road and then up under the ski jump. Down the other side and then doubled back over the bottom hill. Saw Marc and Boris heading the other way. Looped around and caught up with them and everybody else on the power lines on the other side of St Moritz. Up and down a wicked steep climb, leaving from the 'highpoint' of the marathon course, which is not so high. Back down and got lost in Pontresina for a while, past the bottom of the sledding hill, and then started off down the rest of the marathon course. Trail was ok except for the half km walk through the middle of that random town they groom through (sometimes). otherwise just a little windy and snowing. The last 5km sucks a lot to skate since the whole trail is on the sloping hillside so your uphill leg gets mucho tired. It got really snowy and cold at the end so I turned around and headed back up instead of checking out the rest of the trail down to Zernez, which is supposed to be good. Headed straight home, with minimal getting lost again in Pontresina.
C • GPS 4
5 PM
skate ski 5:21:00 [3] 76.36 km (4:12 / km) +257m 4:08 / km
shoes: mystery mix-n-match
Engadin 24 lap #2
Stopped home for food and water and headlamps and new skis and colder wax, then back out again with Boris for the first bit. Headed up the valley this time on the lakes, which were flat but windy. Did a little wandering up into the hills above Majola, then back down the lakes to home for a 25km loop. Dark after the first one, then did two more. Starting to get pretty cold by the last one, so the skis were slow, but i was also having trouble staying warm into the wind, probably a lot to do with not enough water and food too.
Stopped home for food and water and headlamps and new skis and colder wax, then back out again with Boris for the first bit. Headed up the valley this time on the lakes, which were flat but windy. Did a little wandering up into the hills above Majola, then back down the lakes to home for a 25km loop. Dark after the first one, then did two more. Starting to get pretty cold by the last one, so the skis were slow, but i was also having trouble staying warm into the wind, probably a lot to do with not enough water and food too.
Monday Feb 21, 2011 #
9 AM
skate ski 1:35:00 [3] 24.74 km (3:50 / km) +112m 3:45 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Morning ski up the valley for a couple towns, to the start of the race course, then along a skinny side trail along the side of the valley to find something more exciting than dead flat. Found Sam towards the end, and we skied back home in the middle of the lake straight into the wind, which was sort of chilly.
6 PM
skate ski 49:00 [3] 10.06 km (4:52 / km) +191m 4:27 / km
shoes: mystery mix-n-match
Night ski. Realized it's not tahoe any more and that they make wax in all the colors of the rainbow not just red, so once I got over the sadness of both I rewaxed everything this afternoon and it's all speedy now. Went down towards St Moritz and up a steepish side trail and under a ski jump run, which was sort of cool even in the dark.
Sunday Feb 20, 2011 #
6 PM
skate ski 1:05:00 [3] 15.02 km (4:20 / km) +120m 4:10 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Engadin!
Travel day of many trains and loopy tunnels, got here right at dark and went out for a ski. Ran into the marathon course after a few km, groomed about six skate lanes wide plus four classic tracks separated by a berm on the side. Snowing a bit, so some fluff that wasn't the fastest. Went up the valley a bit from Silvaplana to the next town I forget the name of, then a bit of a dp on the tracks back down the marathon trail to St Moritz (lighted trails!), and back home.
Travel day of many trains and loopy tunnels, got here right at dark and went out for a ski. Ran into the marathon course after a few km, groomed about six skate lanes wide plus four classic tracks separated by a berm on the side. Snowing a bit, so some fluff that wasn't the fastest. Went up the valley a bit from Silvaplana to the next town I forget the name of, then a bit of a dp on the tracks back down the marathon trail to St Moritz (lighted trails!), and back home.
dp ski 20:00 [3] 5.0 km (4:00 / km)
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Saturday Feb 19, 2011 #
8 AM
run 39:58 4.11 mi (9:44 / mi) +2m 9:43 / mi
ahr:120 max:145
Neuchatel! Easy run along the lake with Carol for a couple minutes until she had to go home for a nap, then some more in the other direction until I ran out of lakefront sidewalk.
Wednesday Feb 16, 2011 #
7 PM
run 58:55 5.88 mi (10:01 / mi)
ahr:131 max:152
Easy run through le neighborhood. This running crap shouldn't be allowed during ski season. It hurts. Now I know why all of you are broken. At least we're finally getting snow again at home, two feet last night and another three tonight. Nobody tell the WC panel.
Monday Feb 14, 2011 #
4 PM
run 1:05:27 6.21 mi (10:32 / mi) +341m 9:00 / mi
ahr:144 max:164
Easy trail run up around le hilltop while queen whooping cough took a nap. Raining a bit, with lots of mud to squash through.
Sunday Feb 13, 2011 #
8 AM
skate ski warm up/down 14:39 3.7 km (3:58 / km) +67m 3:38 / km
ahr:120 max:145 shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
10 AM
skate ski race 2:32:18 39.52 km (3:51 / km) +845m 3:29 / km
ahr:155 max:170 shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
Transjurassienne (76km skate, but turned 50k, then 42k, and really 39k)
What a joke.
So there's no snow anywhere, except right on the race course where they'd obviously scraped it from somewhere a month ago then piled pine branches on top to keep it from melting. Then this week they took half the branches off and groomed the other half into the ice.
Four thousand people on a race course thats one skate lane wide. Four wave starts, but the course loops back on itself twice, just in case there were little corners that didn't get crapped up into sugar snow the first time. Half the course had gravel all over it, so when you weren't stopping dead on your own, the guy in front of you hit some and tripped and you'd run into him. But fortunately its not like you were moving fast when that happened, since from the best that I could tell the wave starts were ordered to put the slowest people in front. And in case any slow people accidentally got in a start behind you, the course looped around on itself so you got to mix back in with the later waves for another 10k.
For future reference, the following things disqualify you from starting in front of me:
- wooden skis.
- full size backpacks.
- poles with round powder baskets.
- falling. on an uphill.
- snowplowing down a hill that mom wouldn't drag her poles on.
- taking your skis off and walking up a hill that mom would skate up.
- yelling something angry in french while you cut me off on a downhill to get into a tuck right in front of me and stabbing me in the leg with your pole, and then not even having a fast enough wax job to back it up.
My wave started an hour late, either because at the real start time it was still below 50 degrees, or because the gravel trucks hadn't finished filling in the corners on the all downhills. I realized a minute out of the start that this wasn't going to be a race at all, when about four people stopped in the middle of the trail on the first hill (still within sight of the start) for a chat and a water break. And then five km into it when we get to a steep section of trail thats barely one groomer wide, and the race course goes both up and down it, so the downhill guys had half a lane to try to snowplow the sugar on one side, and there were a dozen race workers trying to queue everybody up to herringbone up the other side in a single dignified line. That'd be the part where I'm standing still for six minutes.
Never really got a chance to skate, I was either double poling along the edge trying to get around people, or stuck coach skating in the line. Now my right shoulder really hurts. I should learn crappy technique on the other side too. Not really fun at all. Wave 12 Birkie was better than this.
And then at the finish somebody stole my poles. My good ones.
I hate France.
pics
What a joke.
So there's no snow anywhere, except right on the race course where they'd obviously scraped it from somewhere a month ago then piled pine branches on top to keep it from melting. Then this week they took half the branches off and groomed the other half into the ice.
Four thousand people on a race course thats one skate lane wide. Four wave starts, but the course loops back on itself twice, just in case there were little corners that didn't get crapped up into sugar snow the first time. Half the course had gravel all over it, so when you weren't stopping dead on your own, the guy in front of you hit some and tripped and you'd run into him. But fortunately its not like you were moving fast when that happened, since from the best that I could tell the wave starts were ordered to put the slowest people in front. And in case any slow people accidentally got in a start behind you, the course looped around on itself so you got to mix back in with the later waves for another 10k.
For future reference, the following things disqualify you from starting in front of me:
- wooden skis.
- full size backpacks.
- poles with round powder baskets.
- falling. on an uphill.
- snowplowing down a hill that mom wouldn't drag her poles on.
- taking your skis off and walking up a hill that mom would skate up.
- yelling something angry in french while you cut me off on a downhill to get into a tuck right in front of me and stabbing me in the leg with your pole, and then not even having a fast enough wax job to back it up.
My wave started an hour late, either because at the real start time it was still below 50 degrees, or because the gravel trucks hadn't finished filling in the corners on the all downhills. I realized a minute out of the start that this wasn't going to be a race at all, when about four people stopped in the middle of the trail on the first hill (still within sight of the start) for a chat and a water break. And then five km into it when we get to a steep section of trail thats barely one groomer wide, and the race course goes both up and down it, so the downhill guys had half a lane to try to snowplow the sugar on one side, and there were a dozen race workers trying to queue everybody up to herringbone up the other side in a single dignified line. That'd be the part where I'm standing still for six minutes.
Never really got a chance to skate, I was either double poling along the edge trying to get around people, or stuck coach skating in the line. Now my right shoulder really hurts. I should learn crappy technique on the other side too. Not really fun at all. Wave 12 Birkie was better than this.
And then at the finish somebody stole my poles. My good ones.
I hate France.
pics
C • Wow 11
Saturday Feb 12, 2011 #
2 PM
skate ski 1:09:14 19.36 km (3:35 / km) +231m 3:23 / km
ahr:140 max:164 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Into Geneva, then up to the Jura to check out the race area and try to find bib pickup. Involved a bit of wandering around to different towns, but we found it eventually.
Also, apparently whatever French words get translated into "low snow conditions" don't actually mean low... That'd be the finish arena. Of a ski race.
Found all my registration stuff and then up to some ski trails above Lac des Rousses, where I got in a good ski and Carol went for a run. Trails were actually pretty nice, a lot like old hard east coast dirty snow. But everything was covered.
And I rule at learning to drive a standard. Uphill. In the dark. On twisty roads in the Alps. Fortunately its 45 degrees so its not like there's any ice on the roads. And at least the kind french drivers are sympathetic and patient when I stall on the uphill traffic lights, for three green cycles in a row.
Also, apparently whatever French words get translated into "low snow conditions" don't actually mean low... That'd be the finish arena. Of a ski race.
Found all my registration stuff and then up to some ski trails above Lac des Rousses, where I got in a good ski and Carol went for a run. Trails were actually pretty nice, a lot like old hard east coast dirty snow. But everything was covered.
And I rule at learning to drive a standard. Uphill. In the dark. On twisty roads in the Alps. Fortunately its 45 degrees so its not like there's any ice on the roads. And at least the kind french drivers are sympathetic and patient when I stall on the uphill traffic lights, for three green cycles in a row.
Wednesday Feb 9, 2011 #
3 PM
skate ski 1:00:47 20.02 km (3:02 / km) +246m 2:52 / km
ahr:143 max:163 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Nice and fast, ice over soft corn, so it was pretty effortless.
Now down to Reno tonight for the start of Winter Adventure #4. Flying out to France in the morning for the Transjurassienne, previously 76km of hilly skate awesomenitude, recently demoted to 42km of weak sauce. I blame the French.
Now down to Reno tonight for the start of Winter Adventure #4. Flying out to France in the morning for the Transjurassienne, previously 76km of hilly skate awesomenitude, recently demoted to 42km of weak sauce. I blame the French.
11 PM
Note
ha. You know its gonna be a good adventure when I get stranded somewhere before I even leave. I got Jonis to drive me down to Reno tonight so I could crash the night in a cheap casino and fly out in the morning. We did make it out of California, but then stopped for gas and his truck wouldn't start again. Fortunately it was really really cold out and there was nobody around and the gas station lights turned off automatically at 9. Some random guy showed up at some point with jumper cables, but a Camry isn't big enough to jump a pickup truck, so that didn't help so much. But AAA showed up after an hour or three in a semi jumper and we were merrily on our way.
On a happy note, my $26 casino hotel room is bigger than my house, and has more furniture too. And also 50 lanes of 24/7 bowling just downstairs.
On a happy note, my $26 casino hotel room is bigger than my house, and has more furniture too. And also 50 lanes of 24/7 bowling just downstairs.
Tuesday Feb 8, 2011 #
9 AM
dp ski 1:56:14 30.92 km (3:46 / km) +548m 3:27 / km
ahr:141 max:165 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
dpod. Finally got cold again, 15 overnight, and only a little warmer when I went out and crazy windy. Skipped the last bit up to the ridgeline since it was already cold and biting halfway up.
And oh look, its three months into ski season, time to start destroying all my gear. Those neat Leki poles I got, wait lemme check, only six weeks and 800 km ago? Yeah done. That cute little gimmicky quick release strap ripped through on the uphill today. Good thing the cord was reinforced with two strands of fishing line in the middle. I finished the ski with the palm strap wedged into the pole notch, which worked for pushing, but any time the tip got stuck in the ice the pole would rip out of my hand and I'd have to turn around and go back to get it. Awesome. What'd you do Leki, outsource your testing department to Rossi's qc team of 100lb high school kids?
And oh look, its three months into ski season, time to start destroying all my gear. Those neat Leki poles I got, wait lemme check, only six weeks and 800 km ago? Yeah done. That cute little gimmicky quick release strap ripped through on the uphill today. Good thing the cord was reinforced with two strands of fishing line in the middle. I finished the ski with the palm strap wedged into the pole notch, which worked for pushing, but any time the tip got stuck in the ice the pole would rip out of my hand and I'd have to turn around and go back to get it. Awesome. What'd you do Leki, outsource your testing department to Rossi's qc team of 100lb high school kids?
Monday Feb 7, 2011 #
Note
I did nothing today except dump dad at the airport and then nap. It was pretty sweet.
Sunday Feb 6, 2011 #
12 PM
ski-o! 9:06 [3] ** 2.52 km (3:36 / km) +67m 3:11 / km
spiked:7/7c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
tahoe ski-o #7: Auburn
Mass start 2-person/4-leg sprint relay set by Dad. I helped out enough that I didn't race, so I spent most of the time inside the timing hut helping to calm down Rosemary as she tried to run the timing for a relay using decidedly non-relay SI software. Went out afterwards and skied the two long legs, but the snow had slushed out a lot by then, so a few parts were pretty slow.
leg1 and leg3
Mass start 2-person/4-leg sprint relay set by Dad. I helped out enough that I didn't race, so I spent most of the time inside the timing hut helping to calm down Rosemary as she tried to run the timing for a relay using decidedly non-relay SI software. Went out afterwards and skied the two long legs, but the snow had slushed out a lot by then, so a few parts were pretty slow.
leg1 and leg3
ski-o! 11:56 [3] ** 2.99 km (4:00 / km) +68m 3:35 / km
spiked:11/11c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
2 PM
skate ski 18:40 [2] 1.8 km (10:22 / km) +20m 9:49 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Saturday Feb 5, 2011 #
7 AM
12 PM
skate ski 34:11 [2] 7.39 km (4:38 / km) +139m 4:14 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
ski with Ali on her cooldown. some dp, mostly skate.
3 PM
skate ski 39:28 [2] 3.42 km (11:32 / km) +39m 10:55 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Friday Feb 4, 2011 #
10 AM
skate ski warm up/down 15:20 3.67 km (4:10 / km) +74m 3:48 / km
ahr:128 max:147 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
ski-o! race 1:06:23 ** 16.5 km (4:01 / km) +300m 3:41 / km
ahr:157 max:168 spiked:13/13c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
tahoe ski-o #5: royal gorge
meh. Not so fun. Snow conditions were crappy, I don't think it froze too solid overnight, and the daytime was warm and crazy slow. The course was fairly uninspiring, basically three big doglegs with lots of climb on each. Not too many technical decisions, just skiing. It probably would have been good if the snow was fast, but double poling downhill gets old after a while.
meh. Not so fun. Snow conditions were crappy, I don't think it froze too solid overnight, and the daytime was warm and crazy slow. The course was fairly uninspiring, basically three big doglegs with lots of climb on each. Not too many technical decisions, just skiing. It probably would have been good if the snow was fast, but double poling downhill gets old after a while.
skate ski warm up/down 29:03 4.41 km (6:35 / km)
ahr:120 max:145 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
2 PM
skate ski 23:55 [2] 4.56 km (5:15 / km)
shoes: mystery mix-n-match
Thursday Feb 3, 2011 #
2 PM
skate ski 1:00:00 [1] 11.83 km (5:04 / km) +103m 4:52 / km
ahr:101 max:143 spiked:20/20c shoes: mystery mix-n-match
Hanging controls at TahoeXC. The random dude with the snowmobile was back and making lots of random new trails all over the place, so I spent a while mapping those too.
Wednesday Feb 2, 2011 #
10 AM
skate ski warm up/down 21:07 4.24 km (4:59 / km) +62m 4:38 / km
ahr:116 max:138 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
ski-o! race 59:28 *** 13.62 km (4:22 / km) +412m 3:48 / km
ahr:145 max:161 spiked:16/17c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
tahoe ski-o #4: Northstar
Good course and good conditions, not the best as far as maps go. It was pretty chilly in the morning and Northstar is mostly in the shade, but I put on hf-cold and the skis were sexy fast. I started to get suspicious of things going into 4 when I went by the cut at 9, and it didn't exist and there wasn't a control for 9 there either. But all good until 7, where I went to cut down on the sweet fast crust, two trails down then over a bit. Except the first trail wasn't groomed, and really didn't exist at all, I never even saw a flat spot where it should have been. So I ended up three trails down instead of two, figured it out pretty fast, but then had eight contours to climb back up. Fortunately the crust was ok so I could skate straight up the reentrant with only minimal floundering, but it still burned 6 minutes. Then a sweet downhill crust cut to 8, found the randomly misplaced 9, the trail was totally wrong at 14, and I feel gipped cause I didn't get to do the wiggles on the trail coming out of 15. There was much complaining by others about the control placements being too far off the trails or hidden, but I didn't really have any problems with that, though after a few dodgy ones I was sortof expecting it and so started looking really carefully when I got into the circles. Jonis was course setter today, so only Dad and Charlie and I on blue, and Charlie made the same missing-trail-mistake I did at 7 only blew it for 20 minutes, and Dad somehow burned 10 minutes going back and forth past 8 a few times.
map and qr
Good course and good conditions, not the best as far as maps go. It was pretty chilly in the morning and Northstar is mostly in the shade, but I put on hf-cold and the skis were sexy fast. I started to get suspicious of things going into 4 when I went by the cut at 9, and it didn't exist and there wasn't a control for 9 there either. But all good until 7, where I went to cut down on the sweet fast crust, two trails down then over a bit. Except the first trail wasn't groomed, and really didn't exist at all, I never even saw a flat spot where it should have been. So I ended up three trails down instead of two, figured it out pretty fast, but then had eight contours to climb back up. Fortunately the crust was ok so I could skate straight up the reentrant with only minimal floundering, but it still burned 6 minutes. Then a sweet downhill crust cut to 8, found the randomly misplaced 9, the trail was totally wrong at 14, and I feel gipped cause I didn't get to do the wiggles on the trail coming out of 15. There was much complaining by others about the control placements being too far off the trails or hidden, but I didn't really have any problems with that, though after a few dodgy ones I was sortof expecting it and so started looking really carefully when I got into the circles. Jonis was course setter today, so only Dad and Charlie and I on blue, and Charlie made the same missing-trail-mistake I did at 7 only blew it for 20 minutes, and Dad somehow burned 10 minutes going back and forth past 8 a few times.
map and qr
skate ski warm up/down 4:31 1.4 km (3:14 / km)
ahr:102 max:120 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
2 PM
skate ski 1:10:25 11.69 km (6:01 / km) +235m 5:28 / km
ahr:108 max:151 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Tuesday Feb 1, 2011 #
9 AM
skate ski warm up/down 26:34 6.7 km (3:58 / km) +5m 3:57 / km
ahr:127 max:143 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
ski-o! race 57:09 *** 12.82 km (4:28 / km) +404m 3:51 / km
ahr:157 max:165 spiked:14/16c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
tahoe ski-o #3, Tahoe Donner
Good race, good conditions, brutal climbs. Mistake on the first one where there was a decoy control just before that I stopped and punched. Then one more bad route choice on 4, though I think I probably made the right decision at the time since there was some doubt that the other route (straighter) was too thick to get through. Glorious avalanche-prone butt slide descent straight down from 5, which was too steep to ski, but too shallow to get any good speed on the butt, so it involved a bit of an awkward paddling motion. But Jonis did the same thing and had exactly the same time, so nothing lost there. I did lose about 30 seconds to him on each of the uphill climbing legs, because he's just a beast at that crap, and finished three minutes back.
map and qr
Good race, good conditions, brutal climbs. Mistake on the first one where there was a decoy control just before that I stopped and punched. Then one more bad route choice on 4, though I think I probably made the right decision at the time since there was some doubt that the other route (straighter) was too thick to get through. Glorious avalanche-prone butt slide descent straight down from 5, which was too steep to ski, but too shallow to get any good speed on the butt, so it involved a bit of an awkward paddling motion. But Jonis did the same thing and had exactly the same time, so nothing lost there. I did lose about 30 seconds to him on each of the uphill climbing legs, because he's just a beast at that crap, and finished three minutes back.
map and qr
skate ski warm up/down 15:57 2.66 km (6:00 / km) +54m 5:27 / km
ahr:113 max:134 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
2 PM
skate ski 48:11 7.41 km (6:30 / km) +232m 5:37 / km
ahr:119 max:150 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
control pickup.
also the toes of sole on the new Rossi boots are starting to peel off, which is exactly the same problem I had with the last pair of rossis, and also the pair before that (fortunately they're all recalls, so I only paid for the first pair). But seriously, its been three years and three different models, haven't you guys fixed your glue yet?
also the toes of sole on the new Rossi boots are starting to peel off, which is exactly the same problem I had with the last pair of rossis, and also the pair before that (fortunately they're all recalls, so I only paid for the first pair). But seriously, its been three years and three different models, haven't you guys fixed your glue yet?
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