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Training Log Archive: biggins

In the 28 days ending Feb 28, 2017:

activity	#	time	miles		km		+m		load
skate ski	13	19:51:06	145.49	(8:11)	234.14	(5:05)	3540		3573.3
ski-o!	6	6:18:24	38.47	(9:50)	61.91	(6:07)	1126	52c	1135.2
classic ski	2	3:21:37	8.65	(23:19)	13.92	(14:29)	247		604.8
run	2	1:17:19	7.48	(10:20)	12.04	(6:25)	17		231.9
dp ski	1	7:56	1.04	(7:38)	1.67	(4:44)	51		23.8
Total	23	30:56:22	201.13	(9:14)	323.69	(5:44)	4981	52c	5569.1

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Tuesday Feb 28, 2017 #

2 PM

skate ski 2:13:03 [3] 31.67 km (4:12 / km) +741m 3:46 / km
shoes: 11 madshus curvy red

Awesome afternoon Tahoe red day. Warm, but glazed and fast. This is why I live here.

C • niiice 2

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C • excellent 2

10 AM

skate ski 1:04:34 [3] 15.92 km (4:03 / km) +239m 3:46 / km
shoes: 11 madshus curvy red

Normally I would gloat about how awesome this was, but at this point that just seems cruel to the rest of the country. So it was, um, nice.

skate ski 1:00:11 [3] 14.44 km (4:10 / km) +181m 3:55 / km
shoes: 11 madshus curvy red

Sunday Feb 26, 2017 #

12 PM

skate ski 1:03:21 [3] 12.02 km (5:16 / km) +108m 5:03 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Had all day to kill before flying home, so we drove down to Eau Claire to find some snow at Tower Ridge ski trails. Greasy squishy snow, but at least there was some, and there were lots of trails. Mostly dead flat, but it would make a solid area for ski-o, even more so if you spent a couple days in the woods with a hedge trimmer. Somebody call up the eau claire ski-o club.

C • itchin' 2

Saturday Feb 25, 2017 #

10 AM

skate ski 2:13:10 [3] 24.32 km (5:29 / km) +502m 4:58 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Birkie! Ok not really at all. But we were in WI. Race got cancelled, and they patched up a "5km" loop for everyone to fun ski on. It was crap though and it's only purpose was to keep everybody else occupied while dad and I went off to ski on all the other trails in the north end, some of which were in pretty good shape and totally empty.

C • Yowsa! 2

skate ski 52:10 [3] 9.38 km (5:34 / km) +173m 5:05 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Bonus afternoon loop after some soup. Started out on a wide fat bike trail, which gets a B+ ski-o grooming, but we bailed from it as soon as we hit a real ski trail.

Friday Feb 24, 2017 #

2 PM

skate ski 1:36:46 [3] 13.81 km (7:00 / km) +302m 6:19 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Wandering around the north end trails with dad. Snow was dust over crust, as long as the dust was 1/2 inch and the crust was bulletproof ice.

Thursday Feb 23, 2017 #

10 AM

skate ski 1:29:03 [3] 13.23 km (6:44 / km) +214m 6:14 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Birkie trail south from OO. It was 99% covered, but of that it might have been 60% ice, in various varieties between bulletproof and rotten. Skiable, but not raceable.

Wednesday Feb 22, 2017 #

2 PM

run 48:00 [3] 5.21 mi (9:13 / mi) +5m 9:11 / mi

Run around Hayward Lake. Nice sunny and warm day. At this rate I might actually get in a bunch of running miles before LA relay champs.

Tuesday Feb 21, 2017 #

6 PM

run 29:19 [3] 2.27 mi (12:55 / mi) +12m 12:43 / mi

Birkie training in Hayward with mom and dad. It was dark, but at least there was no worry about slipping on ice or snow.

C • snow 7

Sunday Feb 19, 2017 #

12 PM

classic ski 2:09:12 [3] 6.78 km (19:04 / km) +133m 17:22 / km
shoes: 16 madshus classic

Hike around glenshire with Carol and Zan and Jonas.

You know what's great about NIS bindings? The plate is permanently attached to the skis so you don't have to worry about mounting it and there are no screws to wobble loose or anything, it's a "more efficient platform for power transfer between your boot and the ski". Ha. Challenge accepted.

C • NIS 14

Saturday Feb 18, 2017 #

2 PM

skate ski 2:02:05 [3] 13.57 km (9:00 / km) +187m 8:25 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Around TD with Carol and Zan

Friday Feb 17, 2017 #

4 PM

classic ski 1:12:25 [3] 7.14 km (10:08 / km) +114m 9:23 / km
shoes: 16 madshus classic

Grossly snowing most of the day, but we only got a couple inches, so I went out for a crust ski around glenshire. Warm and sloppy with tons of stream crossings, but good.

Wednesday Feb 15, 2017 #

10 AM

skate ski 1:31:11 [3] 19.01 km (4:48 / km) +183m 4:35 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Crust ski season! (crust skeason?) All around up and down the valley. Crust was pretty good, even if it was warm for the morning. At least its good until tonight, when the next AR of doom comes in. Bye bye roads and dams and slightly sloped dirt embankments.

Tuesday Feb 14, 2017 #

2 PM

skate ski 45:35 [3] 10.49 km (4:21 / km) +166m 4:02 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Lazy afternoon ski around TD. Rocking the 50 degree sun like a champ.

Sunday Feb 12, 2017 #

9 AM

ski-o! 42:00 [3] 9.25 km (4:32 / km) +192m 4:07 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

WMSOC middle #2
Good race. I had better double pole skills today, though nothing really useful. The map from today. Didn't go to the fun little trail part of the terrain to the north, and too much on the golf course. I was very unimpressed with the number of doglegs on this one. 5-6-7-8? Back and forth through the same road crossing three times in a row. It seemed like more than half of the controls I was turning around after punching. Lots of people to run into out there. But still fun. Not as good as yesterday, way better than the long.

C • mistakes 4

ski-o! 29:31 [3] 3.59 km (8:13 / km) +56m 7:38 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Saturday Feb 11, 2017 #

1 PM

ski-o! 50:19 [3] 9.86 km (5:06 / km) +183m 4:40 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

WMSOC middle 1
Way more fun than the long. Terrain was much flatter and more open, and had a better snow:ground ratio. Couldn't double pole very hard with the busted up ribs, so it was pretty slow, but lots of fun.

Friday Feb 10, 2017 #

12 PM

skate ski 50:07 [3] 11.38 km (4:24 / km) +3m 4:24 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Thursday Feb 9, 2017 #

1 PM

ski-o! 1:35:23 [3] 16.78 km (5:41 / km) +312m 5:12 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

World Masters long course.

Well this wasn't very much fun. There's not a lot of snow in the woods, a couple inches, and the sticks and logs and roots and rocks are definitely taller than that. Everything in the woods was dirty and crazy with pine roots and branches and little stumps, some of which I assume are still embedded in my skis.

Bailed hard on some gravel about 200m out of the start. Fell straight forward on my chest onto the icy gravelly trail, broke a map holder strap (but nothing else!), bruised up my ribs and knees and sensitive boy parts. In proper Finnish fashion, as I'm lying on the ground rolling around and moaning a little, the other 10 people from my start wave ski by and don't even look at me.

But after that everything went fine-ish. I was wimping down some of the hairy stuff in the woods for fear of breaking more things, and was wimping up some of the double poles because of the sore ribs. There really weren't that many trails on the map, so navigation was easy, it was just the not dying part that made it tough.

Sigh. I was all psyched up because I had heard fabulous things about finnish ski-o, and this was just disappointing. The conditions were crap which they obviously can't control, but I don't think they handled it very well. The next couple days are on different terrain, so hopefully it'll be better.

C • Course map? 5

Wednesday Feb 8, 2017 #

Event: World Masters Ski Orienteering Championships 2017

3 PM

skate ski 30:30 [3] 7.32 km (4:10 / km) +2m 4:10 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Two laps around the island. Skied the second lap with a Finnish woman who came by with the usual 'USA?' introduction. Talked about the best trails of Imatra, the weather in Finland, the weather in Truckee, global warming, forest fires, and her trip to Death Valley and Vegas. Basically the usual 'I met an american' conversation.

Tuesday Feb 7, 2017 #

2 PM

skate ski 1:00:29 [3] 11.59 km (5:13 / km) +21m 5:10 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Ski around the lake right by our place here, two laps with Anna and one lap with Dad. Not really warm out (maybe low teens?), but certainly comfortable while skiing.

EOC sprint this morning (-20C for the start). I was signed up to race, but yesterday the organizers decided that it actually wasn't allowed, and that racing both EOC and masters would dq me from masters. We'll just ignore the part where it would have been nice to tell us this back in November when we all registered for both and bought tickets for the week. So Anna and I dropped out of EOCs and are just doing masters this weekend, and Adrian and Stina dropped out of masters and are doing all EOCs.

Monday Feb 6, 2017 #

12 PM

ski-o! 55:31 [3] 7.43 km (7:28 / km) +117m 6:55 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Possibly the least exciting model event ever. The control was there at least, but didn't have an emit on it. But there were some more trails past it that were ungroomed but skiableish that we went to play on for a bit. There's about two inches of hard packed snow, so no rocks, but everything is bumpy and rutted, and the black trails are only boot wide. Seems like it'll be fairly treacherous at any sort of speed.

2 PM

ski-o! 52:44 [3] 7.71 km (6:50 / km) +153m 6:13 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Back out with Dad and Ed after they showed up

Sunday Feb 5, 2017 #

Note

Finland!

Thursday Feb 2, 2017 #

9 AM

dp ski 5:23 [3] 1.06 km (5:04 / km) +51m 4:06 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

ski-o! 26:11 [3] 3.51 km (7:28 / km) +68m 6:48 / km
21c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Went back to Boca, but there was an inch or two of heavy slush on the trails and it was sprinkling, so it wasn't great out. But the county sheriffs dept was doing ice diving training at the lake, which was pretty cool.

ski-o! 26:45 [3] 3.77 km (7:06 / km) +46m 6:42 / km
31c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

dp ski 2:33 [3] 0.61 km (4:10 / km)
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)

Wednesday Feb 1, 2017 #

10 AM

skate ski 1:38:51 [3] 26.01 km (3:48 / km) +521m 3:27 / km
shoes: 11 madshus curvy red

Was going to ski-o today, but it was too nice at TD yesterday so I had to come back. Gotta get in my sunshine and nicely groomed trails before Finland. Plus they groomed Crabtree for the first time in like 80 years, so everybody was up there.

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