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Friday Mar 30, 2012 #
3 PM
run 1:04:34 [3] 5.27 mi (12:14 / mi) +157m 11:12 / mi
Terrain run in Prosser. Patchy enough snow down there that it was mostly on dirt, though certainly enough mud and snow and sledding-down-hills-on-my-ass to keep it interesting.
Thursday Mar 29, 2012 #
8 AM
skate ski 1:51:05 32.11 km (3:28 / km) +412m 3:15 / km
ahr:141 max:159 shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
Early morning awesome at TD. 18" of heavy new snow yesterday, but sun yesterday afternoon, so it warmed up and packed and froze overnight, so it was pretty sexy out there. A little soft in the trees where it didn't freeze as much, but not really enough to complain about.
Tuesday Mar 27, 2012 #
8 AM
skate ski 1:10:03 17.67 km (3:58 / km) +246m 3:42 / km
ahr:142 max:154 shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
Home sweet home. Despite accusations of rain last week, conditions were probably the best they've been all winter. Trails were all clean, and only a little soft from the new snow yesterday. They've just opened up a couple new trails in the valley for the first time this winter.
5 PM
run 23:40 1.79 mi (13:15 / mi) +95m 11:22 / mi
ahr:137 max:161
Easy run with Carol down in Reno.
C • Reno 1
Sunday Mar 25, 2012 #
8 AM
run warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.2 km (8:20 / km)
skate ski warm up/down 10:00 [2] 3.0 km (3:20 / km)
shoes: 12 fischer scs skio (96)
ski-o! race 3:50:00 [4] *** 47.42 km (4:51 / km) +746m 4:30 / km
spiked:45/49c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
WCup4 finals, ultralong. As advertised, it was fairly long. Got a couple inches of snow last night, so the trails slowed down quite a bit. That's a good thing for the skinny narrow death trails straight down the hillsides, but bad for the wide skate trails. Didn't have many nav problems today, the trails were much easier to see after being snowmobiled in the fresh snow. The tiredness varied through the race, I sort of bonked halfway into map three and started getting really cold, but I ate three packs of gu and went up a big hill and things got better. Now full of pizza and on an overnight train to stockholm.
Saturday Mar 24, 2012 #
9 AM
skate ski warm up/down 20:58 [2] 4.41 km (4:46 / km) +77m 4:23 / km
shoes: 12 fischer scs skio (96)
10 AM
ski-o! 1:00:00 [4] *** 12.84 km (4:40 / km) +261m 4:15 / km
spiked:15/22c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
boo. Just as clutzy as the rest of the week, but then I made a bunch of navigation mistakes today too. It was pretty ugly.
4 PM
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Then I took the rental car back to the airport, since we won't have time to do it tomorrow. It's about a 40 minute drive down there, then I was gonna take the bus back up to Boden. Or really a bus from the airport (LLA) to Lulea, then a different bus to Boden. Except there aren't really any flights to the airport on Saturday, so the next (and only remaining) bus left the airport at 8pm, in many hours. So rather than wait around, I figured I'd walk, which google said would be like an hour and a half. But right when I got outside the airport, there was a random snowmobile trail going straight towards the lake, which I figured would be more fun. A km of that through the woods and I came out on a road by the lake, and started heading up towards the bridge where the original route went. But then I spooked this giant white bunny rabbit from the side of the road, and it went hopping away out onto the lake. So I then figured if it worked for the bunny its probably cool for me, so I bushwhacked my ass a couple km straight across the lake to Lulea. Take that google. Also upon further inspection its probably not really a lake but more the baltic sea. Same idea, didn't die. Got to the bus station like two minutes after one of the buses left, so I waited around for an hour on the outdoor heated bus stop benches, got the next one for a long many-stop bus trip back to Boden, then walked back home. Total rental car return time: 4.5 hours. We'll call that the warmup for tomorrow.
Friday Mar 23, 2012 #
7 AM
ski-o! 56:07 [3] 12.66 km (4:26 / km) +85m 4:17 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
early morning training down at the model map area
C • soup 3
Thursday Mar 22, 2012 #
9 AM
skate ski warm up/down 6:50 [3] 1.4 km (4:53 / km) +32m 4:23 / km
shoes: 12 fischer scs skio (96)
ski-o! 35:00 [4] *** 8.41 km (4:10 / km) +106m 3:55 / km
spiked:13/15c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
WCup4 Relay with Ali and Alex
Yay relays. Alex and Ali did the men's relay with me, which was awesome. My race was pretty terrible, is this season over yet? Its not really cold here any more, so the tracks were soft, and also made with a narrow track scooter, so that if I moved off the center 12" my skis would nosedive and I'd faceplant. Which happened three or four times before the second control, which were basically in sight of the start, and after which everybody else was out of sight. Not really any navigation mistakes after that, just picking my way through pine needles and clutziness.
Yay relays. Alex and Ali did the men's relay with me, which was awesome. My race was pretty terrible, is this season over yet? Its not really cold here any more, so the tracks were soft, and also made with a narrow track scooter, so that if I moved off the center 12" my skis would nosedive and I'd faceplant. Which happened three or four times before the second control, which were basically in sight of the start, and after which everybody else was out of sight. Not really any navigation mistakes after that, just picking my way through pine needles and clutziness.
skate ski warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.5 km (6:40 / km)
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Wednesday Mar 21, 2012 #
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20-25 ski-o wc 4 sweden
12 PM
skate ski warm up/down 26:29 [2] 6.75 km (3:56 / km) +2m 3:55 / km
shoes: 12 fischer scs skio (96)
ski-o! race 19:50 [4] *** 5.34 km (3:43 / km) +48m 3:33 / km
spiked:9/12c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
WCup4 sprint. Sortof ok, sortof crappy race. Mostly problems with the map exchange (on a sprint?!), which was in the middle of the woods and so had no landmarks, and was also a different shape then the first map, so when I got the new map I had no idea which way it oriented. Obviously I used the compass, but it didn't seem right, though I did it anyway. Then 20m away nothing matched up, and the compass was backwards. So back through the map exchange (the correct answer was to 180 out of it the first time), where the compass freaked out again (can radio controls do that? or was the control just on a metal tree?). Then a mistake going into the next one, I think because the trails got super dirty with tree crap and I didn't see one. Not the bested race ever, though I thought I did good until I figured out that the splits printout didn't have the first leg time included, so my time compared to the ones they were announcing gained two minutes.
Tuesday Mar 20, 2012 #
11 PM
ski-o! 47:48 [3] 9.54 km (5:01 / km) +58m 4:52 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Model event, south of town a little bit. Tracks were old and rutted and icy, except for the one they just tilled, which was bottomless sugar. The woods were ok in places for crustiness (almost skatable), especially in the more open sunny bits, but still soft in others. And this year's ski-o skis are now definitely crappier and slower than last year's, even though they're only a month old.
Weather looks nice here, should be around freezing all week, with some sun and no precip. Sprint tomorrow afternoon, Relay on Thursday (suckered the gigglies into skiing the men's relay with me), no-longer-mass-start Middle on Saturday, and then the 48km I'm gonna die ultralong on Sunday.
Weather looks nice here, should be around freezing all week, with some sun and no precip. Sprint tomorrow afternoon, Relay on Thursday (suckered the gigglies into skiing the men's relay with me), no-longer-mass-start Middle on Saturday, and then the 48km I'm gonna die ultralong on Sunday.
Monday Mar 19, 2012 #
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And then to Sweden yesterday. I forgot how much it sucks to fly through big airports. Took an hour and a half to check in at SFO, mostly because I was waiting in line, but also because they couldn't find my ticket in the computer (!), and then couldn't figure out how to enter skis+boot bag into same computer. To be fair the lady understood that they should count as one bag and thus not charge me for it, but she just didn't know how to make the computer do it. She had a uniform and everything, so I kept assuming she worked there.
And then the eleven hour flight to Frankfurt, and a one hour connection, which doesn't happen when you're in the back row of a 747, so I missed that, and got shuffled to 19 different desks trying to get rebooked. Eventually did, after three trips in and out of security (try that with a boarding pass for a flight thats already taken off...). Finally got on a flight to Stockholm, then had a 35 minute connection to make my original flight up to Lulea, which I made with a solid couple minutes to spare. Silly non-Delta airlines.
Then got the rental car, and Alex, and drove up to Boden, where we randomly drove around looking for a building that might have Ali in it, and when we finally gave up and checked the map we were actually only 200m away. Its not very cold here, and has a normal amount of dark, and what looks like enough snow.
And then the eleven hour flight to Frankfurt, and a one hour connection, which doesn't happen when you're in the back row of a 747, so I missed that, and got shuffled to 19 different desks trying to get rebooked. Eventually did, after three trips in and out of security (try that with a boarding pass for a flight thats already taken off...). Finally got on a flight to Stockholm, then had a 35 minute connection to make my original flight up to Lulea, which I made with a solid couple minutes to spare. Silly non-Delta airlines.
Then got the rental car, and Alex, and drove up to Boden, where we randomly drove around looking for a building that might have Ali in it, and when we finally gave up and checked the map we were actually only 200m away. Its not very cold here, and has a normal amount of dark, and what looks like enough snow.
Saturday Mar 17, 2012 #
Event: Sprint Black Diamond
10 AM
run 9:34 1.3 km (7:22 / km) +30m 6:36 / km
ahr:118 max:133
orienteering 21:06 *** 3.07 km (6:53 / km) +126m 5:42 / km
ahr:155 max:165 spiked:17/18c
Parkish sprint down in SF. Lots of hills, and lots of mud. Lost a shoe in a non-impressively-deep mud pit, which then took quite a bit of pulling to get free.
1 PM
run 6:27 0.93 km (6:57 / km) +6m 6:44 / km
ahr:124 max:138
orienteering 21:16 *** 3.53 km (6:01 / km) +54m 5:36 / km
ahr:153 max:164 spiked:20/20c
Urbanish sprint through Diablo Valley College. Pretty fun area, with a core of buildings that had lots of stairs and ramps and second levels and stuff. Couldn't read the map on the run very well, but as long as you always picked the level that you weren't currently on, the control was always there. t bunch of legs that were the sort of dead end trickery that I think is somewhat dumb, but overall a good race.
Thursday Mar 15, 2012 #
4 PM
run 58:23 6.02 mi (9:42 / mi) +305m 8:23 / mi
ahr:155 max:164
booo.
Wednesday Mar 14, 2012 #
11 AM
dp ski 45:29 8.51 km (5:21 / km) +129m 4:58 / km
ahr:147 max:160 shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
Still craptastic outside today, but the snow is coming mostly downwards today, instead of horizontally. Unfortunately its also 45 degrees outside, so it just sucks. They had groomed in the morning, but not in a couple inches, so it was soft and slow. Suffered through half a lap of super waxing fail and then bailed.
Monday Mar 12, 2012 #
8 AM
skate ski 48:46 12.61 km (3:52 / km) +164m 3:38 / km
ahr:137 max:159 shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
Sunday Mar 11, 2012 #
10 AM
skate ski 1:25:13 [2] 16.26 km (5:14 / km) +151m 5:01 / km
shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
Easy morning ski around BV with Carol and Tori.
Saturday Mar 10, 2012 #
10 AM
skate ski warm up/down 1:41 [2] 0.5 km (3:21 / km) +1m 3:19 / km
shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
warmup. cause anything more is considered trying.
skate ski race 53:57 [4] 17.45 km (3:06 / km) +190m 2:56 / km
shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
All done with GDC in SF, then right up to Bear Valley with Carol and Tori to use up the condo rental from the ski-o. We couldn't cancel it, but they let us reschedule the reservation, so we moved it to this weekend. It just happened to also be the California Senior Winter Games weekend, so there was a 20k (-ish) skate race today and a classic race tomorrow (and lots of downhill stuff at the DH area).
Race was really good. The wax was sexy and awesome, its so nice to be back here and not in europe, where for some reason all wax is slow all the time. Well above freezing by the race start, but still glazed in most places for the first lap, and softer but still fast for the end. Trails were pretty junky with pine needles, but not many rocks and dirt, so it was ok.
I figured I had plenty of excuses with being totally unacclimatized from being at sea level for a month, and not really in the right time zone, and not really having slept for a week, and starting a pretty solid chest cough with green stuff. So I figured I'd just haul ass out of the double pole and use up everything while I had it. Not surprisingly I had a big lead for a few km, then settled down and two other guys caught up. One passed me halfway up the hill, and the other just before the highpoint of the loop, but I stuck to them through the first lap. They got a 20m lead going up the hill the second time, and I was pretty trashed by then, so I didn't make anything up through the finish and finished in 3rd.
Broke a pole on the second lap, I cracked the handle in half about 3" down from the top. Not really sure how, I was just skiing and next thing I know it feels loose and I see its not really attached so much anymore. Did the last 10 minutes or so just grabbing on to what was left of the handle. I don't think it really affected too much, it was mostly downhill and flat by then, and even with two poles I don't think I could have caught the two guys ahead. Stupid madshus. Why can't all the other companies just give up trying new cool things and blatantly copy what swix does?
Race was really good. The wax was sexy and awesome, its so nice to be back here and not in europe, where for some reason all wax is slow all the time. Well above freezing by the race start, but still glazed in most places for the first lap, and softer but still fast for the end. Trails were pretty junky with pine needles, but not many rocks and dirt, so it was ok.
I figured I had plenty of excuses with being totally unacclimatized from being at sea level for a month, and not really in the right time zone, and not really having slept for a week, and starting a pretty solid chest cough with green stuff. So I figured I'd just haul ass out of the double pole and use up everything while I had it. Not surprisingly I had a big lead for a few km, then settled down and two other guys caught up. One passed me halfway up the hill, and the other just before the highpoint of the loop, but I stuck to them through the first lap. They got a 20m lead going up the hill the second time, and I was pretty trashed by then, so I didn't make anything up through the finish and finished in 3rd.
Broke a pole on the second lap, I cracked the handle in half about 3" down from the top. Not really sure how, I was just skiing and next thing I know it feels loose and I see its not really attached so much anymore. Did the last 10 minutes or so just grabbing on to what was left of the handle. I don't think it really affected too much, it was mostly downhill and flat by then, and even with two poles I don't think I could have caught the two guys ahead. Stupid madshus. Why can't all the other companies just give up trying new cool things and blatantly copy what swix does?
1 PM
skate ski 47:14 [2] 9.23 km (5:07 / km) +130m 4:47 / km
shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
back out for a super slow cruise in the afternoon.
Friday Mar 9, 2012 #
8 AM
run 36:35 [3] 5.49 km (6:40 / km) +120m 6:01 / km
Weak sauce run from Andrew's house in SF. Got home tuesday night, unpacked, did laundry, repacked, and drove down here overnight for GDC wed/thurs/fri. Slept through the tail end of each of the sessions on Wednesday, but yesterday I made it through most of them, and today I feel mostly ok so far. It seems like this GDC is a little weaker than the one I went to a couple years ago. This time I'm going to design and business sessions in addition to programming ones, while last time was almost all programming. So I'm not sure if designers are just all worse at giving talks than programmers, or if all of the latest and greatest design paradigms are all bs anyway, or if they just had a hard time getting good speakers this year. But there have been some good ideas I've come across, which was always the goal for these things (just one solid new idea out of everything), so its still been worth it.
Monday Mar 5, 2012 #
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I don't want to sound whiny or anything, but the wifi in the business class lounge in kiev sucks.
Sunday Mar 4, 2012 #
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Sprint relay. Not racing, as there was a 2:1 dude/chick ratio this week, so open teams were not possible at all. It looked pretty cool, though the men and women did identical legs, and the forks were fairly different lengths, so it was hard to tell who was winning, even at the 5th handoff.
Then an overnight bus to Astana, and a morning flight to Kiev.
Then an overnight bus to Astana, and a morning flight to Kiev.
Saturday Mar 3, 2012 #
10 AM
skate ski warm up/down 13:59 [2] 2.97 km (4:42 / km) +1m 4:42 / km
shoes: 12 fischer scs skio (96)
ski-o! race 1:02:00 [4] *** 15.0 km (4:08 / km) +250m 3:49 / km
spiked:25/26c shoes: 12 fischer scs skio (96)
WCup3 middle. Pretty solid race. Mistake on the second control, it looks like I lost 1:30, plus the pack I was in (it was a mass start), but then settled down and almost totally clean after that. The terrain was a lot flatter today, and the temperature was a lot warmer (-6!), so the skiing was easier all around. Now we just hope the results stand. Hans Jorgen Kvale got the same fork twice, and it was a longer one by 10-15 seconds, and he finished 10-15 seconds out of 3rd, which would have a noticeable impact on the overall WCup standings, so the jury is working on the protest now...
3 PM
ski-o! 1:00:09 [3] *** 9.59 km (6:17 / km) +130m 5:53 / km
shoes: 12 fischer scs skio (96)
Home for lunch, and then back out on the long map because, you know, ski-o!
Friday Mar 2, 2012 #
2 PM
ski-o! 1:01:51 [2] 9.73 km (6:21 / km) +150m 5:54 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Easy ski back out through the long map, finding some controls, taking some headcam videos, and generally just wandering around. Saw a giant furry thing, I'd call it an elk but maybe a reindeer? No horns, but it was respectably gigantic. Didn't really think chasing it to ask would be a good idea. Sunny and nice and warm outside, easily above -10. This place is pretty sweet when it isn't super freezy.
The 2012 ski-o skis have been officially christened. I actually think I did most of it during the sprint, as I distinctly remember coming to a dead stop on rocks on a few of the downhill corners, but I definitely hit a few bonus ones yesterday too. Can see through the p-tex in two places...
Also I think I frostbit the tip of my finger yesterday, as its still white and numb. Just the end though, so there's still plenty left when this part falls off.
The 2012 ski-o skis have been officially christened. I actually think I did most of it during the sprint, as I distinctly remember coming to a dead stop on rocks on a few of the downhill corners, but I definitely hit a few bonus ones yesterday too. Can see through the p-tex in two places...
Also I think I frostbit the tip of my finger yesterday, as its still white and numb. Just the end though, so there's still plenty left when this part falls off.
Thursday Mar 1, 2012 #
9 AM
skate ski warm up/down 10 [3] 1.0 km (10 / km)
shoes: 12 fischer scs skio (96)
10 AM
ski-o! race 2:40:00 [3] **** 30.0 km (5:20 / km) +800m 4:42 / km
spiked:30/30c shoes: 12 fischer scs skio (96)
WCup3 long. Crazy! First off, cold. I walk into the start area, and Sixten (iof advisor) says "good news, the sun has reached the terrain and it has warmed several degrees in the last 30 minutes. By the time you start it should be up to -22 or -21". Yay. Wore the lobster mitts, plus the heavy tights under the skio tights, but was still cold for the first lap and on all of the downhills.
The course was insane. 30-some km skiable, 99% scooter trails. Three loops, each with a big long leg across the whole map that had no obvious route, just constant navigation through the straightish line. Seemed basically like a couple middle style races put end to end. Fun and hard, but tough to keep up with. Good stuff though.
Didn't feel as wasted after this one as in ukraine, maybe two weeks of snow time has finally been good for me. It's certainly been established that a month of event planning followed by a week of not sleeping followed by a week of being sick isn't actually a very good way to prepare for the season.
Rest day tomorrow, then mass start middle on Saturday.
The course was insane. 30-some km skiable, 99% scooter trails. Three loops, each with a big long leg across the whole map that had no obvious route, just constant navigation through the straightish line. Seemed basically like a couple middle style races put end to end. Fun and hard, but tough to keep up with. Good stuff though.
Didn't feel as wasted after this one as in ukraine, maybe two weeks of snow time has finally been good for me. It's certainly been established that a month of event planning followed by a week of not sleeping followed by a week of being sick isn't actually a very good way to prepare for the season.
Rest day tomorrow, then mass start middle on Saturday.