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Training Log Archive: biggins

In the 31 days ending Dec 31, 2011:

activity	#	time	miles		km		+m				load
skate ski	15	17:10:32	136.99		220.47		3718				3032.3
run	6	6:21:02	29.72	(12:49)	47.82	(7:58)	1290				1075.8
ski-o!	5	2:52:38	22.27	(7:45)	35.84	(4:49)	297	48 /	60c	80%	586.7
mtn bike	1	1:40:57	15.37	(9.1/h)	24.74	(14.7/h)	468				302.9
dp ski	1	12:23	1.63	(7:36)	2.62	(4:43)	12				48.8
Total	21	28:17:32	205.97		331.48		5785	48 /	60c	80%	5046.4
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Saturday Dec 31, 2011 #

11 AM

mtn bike 1:40:57 [3] 15.37 mi (9.1 mph) +468m

Ride with Jonis through Prosser. Mostly dry and dusty, but with the occasional perfectly smooth frozen puddle to keep things interesting.

Friday Dec 30, 2011 #

12 PM

run 1:28:17 7.17 mi (12:19 / mi) +356m 10:40 / mi
ahr:138 max:190

Home sweet home. Wandering around exploring the woods down the hill a little bit, and gpsing a couple more trails. Snowing for a bit, which was kindof cute and made it seem all wintery, despite the whole 45-degrees thing.

Tuesday Dec 27, 2011 #

10 AM

skate ski 47:18 9.06 km (5:13 / km) +138m 4:51 / km
ahr:129 max:161 shoes: mystery mix-n-match

skate ski 27:31 5.93 km (4:38 / km) +41m 4:29 / km
ahr:126 max:150 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

ski-o! 18:07 ** 4.47 km (4:03 / km) +60m 3:48 / km
ahr:150 max:168 spiked:7/8c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

Playing ski-o at Craftsbury with Dad and Adrian and Kestrel. No flags, just sportident boxes ziptied to trees, so they were occasionally a little dodgy to find.

C • Maybe get some... 2

skate ski 12:25 2.28 km (5:27 / km) +4m 5:24 / km
ahr:124 max:157 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

No-pole heckling trying to find where dad went.

1 PM

ski-o! 22:03 [4] ** 5.89 km (3:45 / km) +62m 3:33 / km
spiked:8/8c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

Kestrel randomly mixed up the controls to make a new course, which had most of the legs the wrong way on the one-way loop, but that gave it some extra distance.

skate ski 45:08 [2] 7.12 km (6:20 / km) +124m 5:50 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

Sunday Dec 25, 2011 #

11 AM

skate ski 10:00 [1]
shoes: mystery mix-n-match

skiing with eliza, who seemed to like the fact that you don't slide much on frozen grass, but that didn't help much for a workout.

run 1:18:16 [2] 3.91 mi (20:02 / mi) +273m 16:28 / mi

chasing turkeys through the backyard.

Saturday Dec 24, 2011 #

2 PM

run 50:41 4.54 mi (11:10 / mi) +31m 10:56 / mi
ahr:129 max:169

track intervals with the monkey squad

Friday Dec 23, 2011 #

10 AM

skate ski 36:40 4.78 km (7:41 / km) +58m 7:14 / km
ahr:106 max:153 shoes: mystery mix-n-match

Rocking out some wet grass skiing in the front yard.

ski-o! 36:33 3.55 km (10:18 / km) +32m 9:51 / km
ahr:113 max:131 shoes: mystery mix-n-match

And then playing the ski-o figure-8 game with the maps from sweden. Two laps of the sprint, then half of the middle before I ran out of snow.

Thursday Dec 22, 2011 #

4 PM

run 25:29 2.63 mi (9:42 / mi) +91m 8:45 / mi
ahr:133 max:162

Easy run down the road from VT with Ken and Dad.

Wednesday Dec 21, 2011 #

skate ski 2:30:00 [3] 30.0 km (5:00 / km)
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

Up to Craftsbury with Dad to ski around their 1.5k manmade loop in the rain. Good times. Snow was actually pretty good, and the morning crowds cleared out after the rain started. Lots of double pole laps in there too.

C • 20 laps 3

Sunday Dec 18, 2011 #

Note

Much better today. Not dfl, and that's not even including the guy that broke a ski and had to go 4km out of his way for a new one (still only had six minutes on him).

C • Butter 7

9 AM

skate ski 10:51 2.7 km (4:01 / km)
ahr:132 max:148 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

ski-o! race 1:07:36 *** 15.99 km (4:14 / km) +65m 4:09 / km
ahr:154 max:164 spiked:21/24c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

Ski-o middle in Evertsberg.
map1, map2. and qr1, qr2.
So apparently there was a remote start, which I'm sure was announced somewhere, but I got to by following the people that looked like they spoke swedish. It turned out to be pretty far away, but I arrived with an easy 30s to spare. Race went well. Much cleaner than yesterday, a couple places I could have taken better routes, but I was happy with the whole thing.

skate ski 10:00 [2] 1.5 km (6:40 / km)
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

Saturday Dec 17, 2011 #

12 PM

skate ski warm up/down 11:14 2.92 km (3:51 / km)
ahr:134 max:147 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

ski-o! race 28:19 *** 5.93 km (4:46 / km) +78m 4:29 / km
ahr:145 max:164 spiked:12/20c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

Sprint in Evertsberg, Sweden.
map and qr
So not exactly the best display of navigation ever, but I guess thats why they invented the first-race-of-the-year (and ideally made it not count for anything). I got totally fubared right off the start and blew 4 minutes on the first one. I had no idea where I was, and couldn't match anything up to the map, despite it being 200m from the start. In retrospect, it seems I started reading the map from the big fat trail that went almost through the start, not the skinny trail that went actually through the start. Make some vaguely parallel errors and throw a women's control in that field NW of 1 and I was hopeless.

I eventually figured it out, then picked a totally zigzag route to 5, and had about the slowest execution of 6-7-8 you could do. The red zigzag over the creek to and from 8 was a metal pipe bridge, where the bars were perpendicular to the trail but about 8" apart. They were iced over so you could slide fine, but it was kindof freaky to see so much through the bridge and still be sliding.

Anyway cleaner after that, but I never really got my head back into it enough to be actually reading ahead on the map. I was having a hard time picturing the trail junctions in my head, they never really seemed to line up. There were a bunch of bonus snowmobile tracks out there that looked identical to the ski trails (I started up one going to 10), and all the roads were snow covered and skiable, even the big ones. I guess I'm not used to so many buildings and urban stuff on a ski-o map.

Snow was new (it was snowing the whole time), but warm and greasy, so the wax was fine despite being mostly summer wax with a quickie layer of lf red on top. I did actually feel pretty good skiing, there were never any times I stalled out trying to pole up any hills or anything, which I guess is a positive, but there wasn't really that much steep climb. Ended up solidly dfl, by a couple minutes I think.

C • So how was it? 1

C • DFL 7

skate ski warm up/down 17:18 3.46 km (5:00 / km) +1m 4:59 / km
ahr:127 max:146 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

Friday Dec 16, 2011 #

12 PM

skate ski 1:13:51 [3] 15.05 km (4:54 / km) +325m 4:26 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

Ski with Cristina out west of the city somewhere. Got a bunch of new snow in the morning, and the groomer was out as we arrived, so the trail was pretty good. Clean and flat, if still soft. Foggy all day, but not cold, so nice out.

C • Ski-O 3

Thursday Dec 15, 2011 #

12 PM

skate ski 2:02:54 [3] 26.86 km (4:35 / km) +543m 4:09 / km
shoes: mystery mix-n-match

Easy ski from Sørkedalen, which was cool just cause its fun to say. Beginning part of the trail was super crappy: a dirty soft slushy snowmobile groomed jeep road. Then it hit a wide groomer groomed trail, which was much nicer, if still soft and slushy. Followed that up for a while, eventually got above the fog and it turned pretty nice. The trail was frozen up higher for the last couple km, so still punching through with the poles, but at least there was glide. And some blue sky here and there, and some views, and even rumors of the sun. All shortlived however, as then the grooming stopped and I backtracked down into the mush.

Wednesday Dec 14, 2011 #

Note

14-18 swedish ski-o tour idre fjall

2 PM

skate ski 1:31:39 [3] 20.4 km (4:30 / km) +498m 4:00 / km
shoes: mystery mix-n-match

Norway! Easy ski around Cristina's lake, which according to the map is apparently a couple lakes. Then I came around to the other side, and it looked extra crappy to get back across to the parking lot, so instead I turned around and skied back. Don't think it was shorter. Trails were ok for about half of it, icy postholed death for the other half. About 2/3 of it was lit, which came in handy on the way back. Good times.

I suppose its probably unfair to permanently judge a country based entirely on half a day of my life here, but it wouldn't be the first time so I'll do it anyway: Norway is sortof like home, except flatter, darker, wetter, and they're out of butter. Though to their credit: the ratio of icy-slush vs gravel on the trails was significantly better than 1:1, and its been 7 hours and I haven't gotten scowled at yet. Sorry France, you're still at the bottom.

C • Trip 5

Tuesday Dec 13, 2011 #

Note

done and done. Winter may now begin.

C • HD?! 6

Monday Dec 12, 2011 #

12 PM

run 58:04 4.03 mi (14:24 / mi) +284m 11:49 / mi
ahr:132 max:154

wandering around prosser hill mapping some random trails here and there.

C • Looks like ski-O is back on... 11

Sunday Dec 11, 2011 #

11 AM

skate ski 1:32:47 21.39 km (4:20 / km) +458m 3:55 / km
ahr:135 max:156 shoes: mystery mix-n-match

Easy ski at Auburn with Jonis, to get in my last hit of sunny winter for the month.

Saturday Dec 10, 2011 #

1 PM

skate ski 1:17:15 21.68 km (3:34 / km) +480m 3:12 / km
ahr:149 max:166 shoes: mystery mix-n-match

Lovely day outside, so both Jonis and I rewaxed the skis and went up to race back to back 10k's. Good times, and adequately dead afterwards.

Friday Dec 9, 2011 #

2 PM

skate ski 1:11:27 16.77 km (4:16 / km) +375m 3:50 / km
ahr:150 max:168 shoes: mystery mix-n-match

Auburn with Jonis. Second half without poles. Trails were actually in really good shape. Its been warmer during the day and super cold at night, so they've been chewing it up and there's no ice left anywhere. Now we just need more than 2k to play on.

Thursday Dec 8, 2011 #

Note

Shopping Cart Hero 3: submitted. ipad version goes in tomorrow. then maybe I'll go outside. or take a nap.

C • alright! 13

12 PM

run 1:20:15 7.44 mi (10:47 / mi) +255m 9:45 / mi
ahr:154 max:172

Run with Carol along the side of donner ridge, then she bailed back to the car and I ran over to hawks' peak and down to home. Trails were a lovely mix of 1/3 dirt, 1/3 mud, and 1/3 icy death.

Sunday Dec 4, 2011 #

Note

oh europe, why do you suck so much. now what am I supposed to do when I fly over there?

C • What are we? 7

Saturday Dec 3, 2011 #

2 PM

skate ski 1:05:29 15.16 km (4:19 / km) +358m 3:52 / km
ahr:138 max:165 shoes: mystery mix-n-match

ASC with Jonis and Carol. Wicked windy and cold, but they regroomed last night so only a little part of the trail was an icy death patch.

Friday Dec 2, 2011 #

3 PM

skate ski 56:45 13.4 km (4:14 / km) +315m 3:47 / km
ahr:147 max:169 shoes: mystery mix-n-match

NEPP

dp ski intervals 12:23 2.62 km (4:43 / km) +12m 4:37 / km
ahr:156 max:161 shoes: mystery mix-n-match

a bunch of laps of short dp-til-you-can't-see-straight intervals in the stadium. then jonis came back so I had to do a couple more.

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