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Training Log Archive: biggins

In the 28 days ending Feb 28, 2015:

activity	#	time	miles		km		+m		load
skate ski	12	10:17:53	84.24	(7:20)	135.57	(4:33)	1880		1853.7
ski-o!	11	9:19:12	66.97	(8:21)	107.78	(5:11)	1642	164c	1677.6
run	8	5:16:32	30.44	(10:24)	48.99	(6:28)	828		949.6
road bike	2	1:41:37	23.44	(13.8/h)	37.73	(22.3/h)	316		304.9
mtn bike	1	51:16	5.36	(6.3/h)	8.63	(10.1/h)	137		153.8
Total	31	27:26:30	210.46	(7:49)	338.71	(4:52)	4803	164c	4939.5

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Friday Feb 27, 2015 #

4 PM

run 42:24 [3] 4.29 mi (9:53 / mi) +107m 9:11 / mi

There's even some new snow outside. Not really much, but some parts were legit white.

C • Snow? 4

Thursday Feb 26, 2015 #

12 PM

run 42:19 [3] 4.28 mi (9:54 / mi) +104m 9:12 / mi

Wednesday Feb 25, 2015 #

2 PM

road bike 59:38 [3] 13.69 mi (13.8 mph) +197m

Tuesday Feb 24, 2015 #

11 AM

mtn bike 51:16 [3] 5.36 mi (6.3 mph) +137m

It got down to 9 degrees last night, so any leftover mud and meltwater was nicely frozen up, but it was up to 55 when I went out so actually quite nice.

5 PM

run 50:11 [3] 4.58 mi (10:58 / mi) +204m 9:38 / mi

Sunday Feb 22, 2015 #

10 AM

skate ski 42:53 [3] 8.92 km (4:48 / km) +141m 4:27 / km
shoes: 11 madshus curvy red

Ski with dad from Mosquito Brook south. Negative degrees out, and I definitely didn't have enough clothes on. The trail was regroomed and rock solid though.

Saturday Feb 21, 2015 #

5 AM

run 6:41 [3] 1.14 km (5:52 / km)

7 AM

skate ski warm up/down 11:18 [3] 2.15 km (5:16 / km) +2m 5:14 / km
shoes: 11 madshus curvy red

8 AM

skate ski race 2:56:49 [3] 50.25 km (3:31 / km) +607m 3:19 / km
shoes: 11 madshus curvy red

Birkie. Meh. Snow was junk, I sortof caught Carol germs this week, and the temperature was ten degrees warmer than it was supposed to be. So not fabulous. I did get to the front row of the start line, and was fifth off the runway into the woods, which was pretty cool, but I felt pretty crappy and was dropping places hard for the rest of the race. Backed off a bunch in the middle, and went into survival mode for the last fifteen km. Also I somehow hurt the back of my hand, despite not ever hitting it on anything. Maybe the pole straps were weird on the heavy gloves or something, but it hurts a lot now.

C • Still a nice race 5

Friday Feb 20, 2015 #

4 PM

skate ski 29:00 [3] 5.8 km (5:00 / km) +60m 4:45 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

In Wisconsin for the birkie, skied a bit on mosquito brook with dad.

Wednesday Feb 18, 2015 #

3 PM

run 45:32 [3] 4.31 mi (10:34 / mi) +106m 9:49 / mi

The wax I just put on my skis is good for 100 degrees colder than it is outside. Also putting on cold wax sucks.

Tuesday Feb 17, 2015 #

12 PM

run 44:59 [3] 4.19 mi (10:44 / mi) +103m 9:58 / mi

Its like 70 outside.

4 PM

road bike 41:59 [3] 9.76 mi (13.9 mph) +119m

Still awesome outside.

Monday Feb 16, 2015 #

Note

Seattle airport, B terminal. There's a store totally dedicated to selling maps. It's big for an airport store and kind of awesome.

Sunday Feb 15, 2015 #

11 AM

skate ski warm up/down 20:00 [3] 4.0 km (5:00 / km)
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

ski-o! race 44:15 [3] *** 10.46 km (4:14 / km) +190m 3:53 / km
20c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Ski-WOC relay first leg. Good race, took all the safe routes, made no mistakes. Lost a bit of time to the people I was with on the bobsled downhill cause I did it on my butt, but caught back up again within a couple legs. Fun trails, more routechoicey legs than the middle, but also easier execution.

Saturday Feb 14, 2015 #

11 AM

skate ski warm up/down 30:00 [3] 4.0 km (7:30 / km)
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

ski-o! race 1:06:10 [3] *** 15.48 km (4:17 / km) +207m 4:00 / km
35c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Ski-o world champs middle distance.
The terrain was nice and flat, and all were the kind that I could ski fast without fearing for death, so I went with the faster-but-risky version of navigation today, and it failed fairly spectacularly. Got wicked lost twice, once way more than the other, and lost lots of minutes. But the trails were awesome, and I hope the relay tomorrow is more terrain like this.

2 PM

skate ski 52:56 [3] 8.63 km (6:08 / km) +143m 5:40 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

A few of us went back up to the top of the mountain (where the long was) because its unembargoed now and it was sunny and the skiing up there was sweet. A few big trails, a little bit of double poling, and some awesome little ski-o trails on the way back down. Good stuff.

Friday Feb 13, 2015 #

2 AM

ski-o! 1:01:59 [3] 10.23 km (6:04 / km) +175m 5:35 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Rest day, a few of us went up to the sprint area to play around. Snowing and foggy out, but still pretty nice.

Thursday Feb 12, 2015 #

10 AM

ski-o! warm up/down 30:00 [3] *** 3.0 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

11 AM

ski-o! race 2:36:00 [3] *** 30.43 km (5:08 / km) +627m 4:39 / km
28c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Ski-o world champs long distance. I guess the good news is that I didn't break any skis.

Interval starts today, which is fairly unusual for a long, they're usually mass starts. Also it was 1:15, we've usually been on 1:12.5 for the last couple years. First part was up in very sparse trees on the top of a 'mountain', which was pretty awesome just because it was awesome up there. Long legs on crazy narrow trail descents. The snow was really soft though, despite how many times they've told us they've been driving the tracks for two months. Uphills were really tough, there were edges on the sides of the trails and the trail surface wasn't solid enough to pole hard in most places.

So the fun part, got to #3, with a real short downhill leg to 4. Two crazy drops in a row, made the first, hit soft snow at the bottom of the second and dug in a ski and bit it. Broke a pole, stabbed myself a bit with the ends of the pole, bent the arm of the map holder sideways, broke the plastic base sheet of the map holder in half (stabbed myself a bit with the pointy ends of that), tore the map into a couple pieces, and bent the toe bar on my boot. It was a pretty sweet fall.

I dug around in the snow for map chunks for a while (they all got speared down a foot or two when the map holder went in). Found all the parts with controls, couldn't find a chunk of the center I had to ski through to get back but I figured I could wing it on that part. It was another three controls until the equipment drop, and I figured skiing over there for a new pole then coming back would be just as slow as doing the next three with one pole, so I just kept going. In hindsight there's a pretty obvious route 4-5 that goes through the equipment drop, but I probably hit my head at the same time so I didn't see it at all.

The new pole had medium sized baskets, so that sucked on the soft trails, but most of my problem was the busted map holder plastic. Only about 1/2 of the bottom sheet was still attached, though I kept the other half and snapped it on because it sortof held the map in place. Except when I was going fast or it was windy, the the snapped on piece flipped up and stabbed me in the face. Good times.

All told the navigation was pretty uneventful, no mistakes that were worth worrying about. I wasn't moving too fast when I had the one pole, and took easy safe routes for the rest because I was a little sketched out and fairly sore, and couldn't double pole worth anything on the uphills. I was quite successful at generalizing the mazes into contours and catching features, and took lots of routes that were 'take downhills' or 'take horizontals' or 'go that wayish' until a target.

edit: seriously I was just skiing along and I don't know what happened to it.

C • oh man 7

Wednesday Feb 11, 2015 #

Note

Today's picture from the sprint.

1 PM

skate ski warm up/down 30:00 [3] 2.0 km (15:00 / km)
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

ski-o! race 24:35 [3] *** 5.18 km (4:45 / km) +63m 4:29 / km
16c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Skio world champs sprint, went pretty well. It was all little trails except for one long leg that I went out and around on a big trail. I was pretty much nailing everything, purposely or accidentally, all the way through until the last technical one. Read the contours wrong (you could probably argue something about the map in that spot too) and was looking at the bottom of a hill when I should have been on the next trail parallel on top of a hill. Doubled back a ways and lost a bunch of time, maybe a minute or so. At the time I never convinced myself why I was wrong, but it clearly wasn't there so I went to the next trail, found it and moved on.

Trails were fun and open and skiable for the first half, icy and steep and in really thick pine forest for the second half. Good stuff.

C • Nice skiing! 2

Tuesday Feb 10, 2015 #

10 AM

ski-o! 44:12 [3] 8.16 km (5:25 / km) +53m 5:15 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

A few loops around the model map before watching Alex and Adrian in the sprint relay. More of the juniors were out on the model today, so there were a few roving gaggles of teenage girl trains to contend with.

Monday Feb 9, 2015 #

11 AM

ski-o! 54:16 [3] *** 8.19 km (6:37 / km) +40m 6:28 / km
5c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Model event at the arena. Mini trails were nice and sketchy - super rolly with fairly thick pine trees on all sides. A bunch of it was open treed marsh too, not sure how much of each we'll have.

Sprint relay is tomorrow, we have Alex and Adrian for the US. They'll both have gps if you want to follow along, start is 2pm norway time.

Random skinny trail picture.

4 PM

skate ski 46:59 [3] 7.04 km (6:40 / km) +180m 5:55 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Went for a bonus ski back by our house. Mostly classic trails that hadn't been groomed in a week or two, so it was fairly dirty and bumpy. Outside smells like wood smoke, though I'm assuming it's for different reasons than when that happens in california.

Random classic trail picture.

Sunday Feb 8, 2015 #

3 PM

skate ski 57:06 [3] 10.54 km (5:25 / km) +240m 4:52 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Got to Norway, found people, drove to Hamar, went skiing. Trails were pretty nice, and mostly groomed well.

Friday Feb 6, 2015 #

9 AM

run 41:13 [3] 4.02 mi (10:16 / mi) +95m 9:33 / mi

Both ski areas up on the pass are closed from the 100mph winds, so I went for a run around TD. Snowing a little bit, despite being 55 degrees, and fairly nice out if you ignore the wind. Saw a little bird fly out of a tree and then get demolished by a gust.

C • iPhone fodder 3

Thursday Feb 5, 2015 #

9 AM

skate ski 59:37 [3] 16.29 km (3:40 / km) +262m 3:23 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Wednesday Feb 4, 2015 #

8 AM

skate ski 1:01:15 [3] 15.94 km (3:50 / km) +245m 3:34 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

At ASC, which was in remarkably good shape despite the 43 degree overnight low. We'll see how it lasts through 6 inches of rain this weekend.

Tuesday Feb 3, 2015 #

4 PM

run 43:13 [3] 6.56 km (6:35 / km) +109m 6:05 / km

Easy joggy jog around the ski trails. Because its not like they're being used for skiing.

Sunday Feb 1, 2015 #

8 AM

ski-o! 24:43 [3] *** 3.3 km (7:29 / km) +49m 6:58 / km
16c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

TruckeeOC super ski-o sprint tournament at Auburn Ski Club. It was awesome. Four rounds, people divided into three groups, mass starts within each group. Sortof like Vlad's sprint tournaments but with way less effort put into the bracket structure.

Maps:
one
two
three
four

I may have run over a small posse of high school kids on round three. I may also have run them over three or four times within two minutes.

C • Brackets 2

10 AM

ski-o! race 10:04 [3] *** 3.13 km (3:13 / km) +67m 2:54 / km
9c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

ski-o! race 12:32 [3] *** 3.6 km (3:29 / km) +71m 3:10 / km
11c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

ski-o! race 5:30 [3] *** 1.47 km (3:44 / km) +14m 3:34 / km
11c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

ski-o! race 11:38 [3] *** 3.12 km (3:44 / km) +61m 3:24 / km
11c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

12 PM

ski-o! 13:18 [3] *** 2.03 km (6:33 / km) +25m 6:10 / km
2c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

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