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Sunday Mar 31, 2013 #
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wandering around the coast looking at elephant seals and the Hearst Castle.
Saturday Mar 30, 2013 #
kayak 1:30:00 [3]
Kayak around Morro Bay chasing the sea lions.
Friday Mar 29, 2013 #
10 AM
hiking 1:00:00 [3]
Hiking up Mt Giant Pinnacle of Terror, or something like that, near San Luis Obispo. Lots of up and dusty switchbacks, but the top was nice and rocky and cliffy. I think we met the entire population of CalPoly along the way.
2 PM
run 45:33 [3] 7.07 km (6:26 / km) +74m 6:07 / km
Run along some trails above the bluffs at Mt de Oro SP. Breezy and sunny for a while, the some fog rolled in while we were chasing anemomes in the tide pools.
Also, our hotel room tonight is a cave. As in, literally. It is 100% rock, except the bed. And the shower is a waterfall.
Also, our hotel room tonight is a cave. As in, literally. It is 100% rock, except the bed. And the shower is a waterfall.
Thursday Mar 28, 2013 #
5 PM
run 48:29 [3] 7.01 km (6:55 / km) +261m 5:50 / km
Spring training road trip party run. Heading to San Luis Obispo to play in the oxygen for the weekend, and we stopped in Auburn on the way down to run on the ridge above the gorge. It was all sunny and warm. Also got a tick.
Wednesday Mar 27, 2013 #
3 PM
road bike 1:35:30 [3] 26.81 mi (16.8 mph) +428m
Loop down around Donner lake and back, then through town. A little bit snowing on the way back up the mountain, but still sunny and warm, so pretty nice out.
Sunday Mar 24, 2013 #
9 AM
run 3:58 [2] 0.58 km (6:48 / km) +22m 5:43 / km
orienteering race 59:54 [3] ** 6.93 km (8:38 / km) +379m 6:47 / km
9c
BAOC's first TrailCross race at Black Diamond Mines SP, running it with Carol. The course was essentially a long yellow course with tons of climb, but with a mass start and trail-race like support. The format seems like its pretty fun, it had that adventure race friendliness atmosphere to it, at least with the people we were running around. The implementation may need a little love though, it started late, one of the controls was a little questionable, and we got lost in one area because the map was missing some pretty obvious trails. Still happy we hung around for it.
Saturday Mar 23, 2013 #
10 AM
run 3:11 0.57 km (5:36 / km) +5m 5:22 / km
ahr:123 max:144
orienteering race 45:13 *** 6.13 km (7:23 / km) +278m 6:01 / km
ahr:149 max:163 34c
Middle distance at Paso Nogal park, which is pretty tiny, so three maps and lots of short legs. Fun stuff though, lots of contour navigation and bushes on hillsides. All the non-skiing muscles in my ankles were pretty dead by the end from all the sidehilling.
run 5:04 [2] 0.67 km (7:32 / km) +19m 6:36 / km
Friday Mar 22, 2013 #
Event: Run Black Diamond
8 PM
run warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.0 km (10:00 / km)
orienteering race 20:02 *** 2.9 km (6:55 / km) +33m 6:33 / km
ahr:142 max:158 19c
Night sprint at Diablo Valley College down in SF. Lots of buildings and passageways and stairways, pretty fun. Mostly just running on autopilot, not really planning ahead at all. Took the map out of the map case after a couple legs, which helped a lot with the headlamp glare, but I still couldn't read much on the run. But the legs were simple enough I could usually stop at each control and memorize the whole next leg, so it didn't matter too much.
Partly relevant tangent: has anybody from summer-o sprinty mapmaking actually tried using center dots in the control circles? Do they not work in the summer for some reason? or is it just that no one knows they exist? Because I think they'd be pretty great on urban sprint maps.
No real navigation troubles, smooth all the way through, and I started second and passed the first guy early on, so I had the course to myself the whole time. Saw many cats, or their eyes at least.
Partly relevant tangent: has anybody from summer-o sprinty mapmaking actually tried using center dots in the control circles? Do they not work in the summer for some reason? or is it just that no one knows they exist? Because I think they'd be pretty great on urban sprint maps.
No real navigation troubles, smooth all the way through, and I started second and passed the first guy early on, so I had the course to myself the whole time. Saw many cats, or their eyes at least.
Thursday Mar 21, 2013 #
5 PM
road bike 1:05:17 [3] 17.4 mi (16.0 mph) +332m
The car broke a couple days ago (mices eating more delicious wires - which apparently are actually made with peanut oil), but we have a new VW shop here in town, so I sent the car there instead of all the way to Reno. They called up today and said it was all fixed up, so I rode down to pick it up, but while they were bringing it around the engine light came back on, so I got to ride back home, which is less downhill than the way there.
Tuesday Mar 19, 2013 #
4 PM
road bike 31:00 [3] 8.43 mi (16.3 mph) +89m
Wandering around the neighborhood. It started raining literally the second I walked out of the garage, so it was somewhat cold.
Monday Mar 18, 2013 #
4 PM
run 28:44 3.27 mi (8:48 / mi) +75m 8:12 / mi
ahr:135 max:156
so many new training types this week!
Sunday Mar 17, 2013 #
9 AM
skate ski 1:11:23 [3] 20.45 km (3:29 / km) +344m 3:13 / km
shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
easy icy ski around TD with Jonis. we went exactly the same distance as yesterday, but with 100m more climb.
4 PM
road bike 45:33 [3] 12.62 mi (16.6 mph) +71m
drove down to donner lake to play with the new bike, just cause I don't really trust it on big hills yet. also big hills make me tired.
Saturday Mar 16, 2013 #
8 AM
skate ski 1:12:31 [3] 20.45 km (3:33 / km) +238m 3:21 / km
shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
easy flat ski around TD with Jonis. nice and icy fast.
Friday Mar 15, 2013 #
3 PM
road bike 30:09 [2] 7.36 mi (14.6 mph) +169m
I think I came down with the Adrian/Scott plague just after I got home, I've felt pretty terrible for the last couple days, but not terrible enough that there's really anything specific wrong. Mostly stomach aches and fevers and only sleeping for a couple hours at a time. I felt a little better today, but didn't decide this until it was too warm out to go ski, so I went down and put together the new road bike. omg new bike yay! Took it for a little ride around to see if everything worked, and its pretty awesome. Definitely different than the old one, the steering geometry feels weird, and the new cranks are huge. I'm pretty sure my cadance dropped by a lot, and it wasn't too high before. I have to use way more range of motion in my legs each stroke, which I suppose will be a good thing once I get those extra parts of the muscles into shape.
C • Nice 2
Thursday Mar 14, 2013 #
8 AM
skate ski 56:58 [2] 11.22 km (5:05 / km) +162m 4:44 / km
shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
easy ski with Carol around TD. It got down to 47 last night, so we weren't expecting much, but it was more solid than I would have figured. Quite nice and glazed in a few places, a little soft in most.
Wednesday Mar 13, 2013 #
5 AM
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Home sweet home, with only minor running through one of the airports to make a late connection. Bags and skis didn't make it through that one, but they got delivered this morning at 2:30, which I know because I've been wide awake since 2.
A big thanks to everybody that was following along from home last week. Travelling and racing and trying to be at our best in weird countries is super stressful, and it sincerely does make that little extra difference to know that people back home are cheering for us. It might be because of pride, or showmanship, or just stress-induced homesickness, but it really helps.
It was 72 degrees when I landed in Reno yesterday, and it looks like its down below freezing now, so out for a t-shirt ski as soon as the sun comes up. And after I get all that icky non-tahoe cold wax off the skis of course!
A big thanks to everybody that was following along from home last week. Travelling and racing and trying to be at our best in weird countries is super stressful, and it sincerely does make that little extra difference to know that people back home are cheering for us. It might be because of pride, or showmanship, or just stress-induced homesickness, but it really helps.
It was 72 degrees when I landed in Reno yesterday, and it looks like its down below freezing now, so out for a t-shirt ski as soon as the sun comes up. And after I get all that icky non-tahoe cold wax off the skis of course!
9 AM
skate ski 1:08:50 [2] 18.59 km (3:42 / km) +241m 3:29 / km
shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
easy morning ski around TD. It was already like 45 degrees, but the trails were softened icy hardback, aka all sorts of effortless awesome.
Tuesday Mar 12, 2013 #
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It's 1am in the Almaty airport, 9 of 12 hours done here, 20 of 51 hours done until home. The gigglies are asleep on the floor, Anna and I are plotting the truckee orienteering club, Scott is miserably sick, Swedish Ed is wandering around forlornly, and Adrian disappeared a little while ago, though we're assuming he's not in prison yet. Good times.
Monday Mar 11, 2013 #
6 AM
run 15:00 [2] 1.5 mi (10:00 / mi)
early morning darkness jog. it was going to be a morning skio, but they knocked on our doors at 6am to say the busses to the airport were leaving two hours earlier than planned, so that cancelled that plan.
Sunday Mar 10, 2013 #
10 AM
skate ski warm up/down 20:00 [3] 2.0 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)
ski-o! race 1:57:00 [4] *** 25.0 km (4:41 / km)
37c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)
Ski-WOC long. Rocked it.
This was a really good race, snowing and warmer than we expected by 15 degrees, but the snow was wicked greasy fast and all the narrow trails were rock solid. Four loops, three forked and then a short common forth one. I had the same first control as Scott and followed him there, but then we split and I saw very few people afterwards. The first half of the loops were up in some steepish reentrant hillside, then we dropped down across a sketchy bridge and onto the giant flat hillside for a loop, then back across the river and a few more flattish controls through the sprint terrain back to the arena. So it was always physical dp at the start, then a long up and down traverse to the bridge, then an ignore-the-trails bushwhack-fest on the hillside and back. Took two GUs without water at the top end of loops 2 and 3, which were delicious and needed and didn't cause any problems. Had lots of energy all the way through to the finish, which is definitely a first for a steep-dp-fest long course.
The dodgy hillside bits were fun with lots of short cutting, almost all of which I nailed perfectly. Came through the last exchange with a German guy, but didn't look which one it was. I figured it was Bernd, since he looked too short to be Eike, but he caught up at the first control and it was the young fast guy. I vaguely tried to hang on, which worked until we hit the big trail and then he just rocketed away. He had about 30 meters by the time we turned onto the narrow trail, and it was all downhill straightline after that so I couldn't make it back up.
Quite happy with the result, best wre points I've ever gotten, and I beat a whole bunch of people I've never beaten before.
This was a really good race, snowing and warmer than we expected by 15 degrees, but the snow was wicked greasy fast and all the narrow trails were rock solid. Four loops, three forked and then a short common forth one. I had the same first control as Scott and followed him there, but then we split and I saw very few people afterwards. The first half of the loops were up in some steepish reentrant hillside, then we dropped down across a sketchy bridge and onto the giant flat hillside for a loop, then back across the river and a few more flattish controls through the sprint terrain back to the arena. So it was always physical dp at the start, then a long up and down traverse to the bridge, then an ignore-the-trails bushwhack-fest on the hillside and back. Took two GUs without water at the top end of loops 2 and 3, which were delicious and needed and didn't cause any problems. Had lots of energy all the way through to the finish, which is definitely a first for a steep-dp-fest long course.
The dodgy hillside bits were fun with lots of short cutting, almost all of which I nailed perfectly. Came through the last exchange with a German guy, but didn't look which one it was. I figured it was Bernd, since he looked too short to be Eike, but he caught up at the first control and it was the young fast guy. I vaguely tried to hang on, which worked until we hit the big trail and then he just rocketed away. He had about 30 meters by the time we turned onto the narrow trail, and it was all downhill straightline after that so I couldn't make it back up.
Quite happy with the result, best wre points I've ever gotten, and I beat a whole bunch of people I've never beaten before.
skate ski warm up/down 15:00 [2] 1.0 km (15:00 / km)
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)
Saturday Mar 9, 2013 #
10 AM
skate ski warm up/down 45:00 [2] 5.0 km (9:00 / km)
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Yay cold sunny weather! Warmups and general shenanigans while the ladies were relaying.
ski-o! race 38:33 [4] *** 8.0 km (4:49 / km)
18c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)
Ski-WOC Men's relay leg 2. Good race, good conditions. Tracks were cold and solid, a few insane bottom ditches on the downhills, and lots of crazy 90 degree turns, but I managed to stay upright for all of them and didn't fall off any dodgy mini-bridges into any rivers. They had gps tracking for everybody, which was pretty cool. No maps, since they're being all secretive about it, but you can just overlay it on the one I drew from memory, since its totally correct. Except for the part where I'm a little biased towards drawing right turns, so the straight trail going into 8 should be pointing directly back at the finish. See the amended inset map.
Had three mistakes, one at the end where I ended up on the wrong fork of a Y, but they both went where I was going so no time lost there. The first was coming down the hill from 5-6 on the big trail that mostly went right to the control, but I got out of control and bailed onto a side trail, which meant I had to zigzag a little to get down to the control. It was all downhill though, so probably only a few seconds. The third toward the end out of 15 where I missed the turn I wanted - saw it coming but too late to get the weight shifted enough to make a 90 degree downhill turn, so I kept going and looped below the biathlon range on a big trail. It was longer but faster skiing and less climb, so not sure how the time worked out.
Everything else was totally clean navigation and mostly clean skiing (a few sketchy turns and downhills, but nothing I bailed on). So I'll chalk that up a successful race. Feels good after the junk we had for the middle. Scott and Adrian also had pretty clean races, and we ended up a little behind Japan and a bit ahead of Germany in the fight for the third-world-ski-o championships.
Had three mistakes, one at the end where I ended up on the wrong fork of a Y, but they both went where I was going so no time lost there. The first was coming down the hill from 5-6 on the big trail that mostly went right to the control, but I got out of control and bailed onto a side trail, which meant I had to zigzag a little to get down to the control. It was all downhill though, so probably only a few seconds. The third toward the end out of 15 where I missed the turn I wanted - saw it coming but too late to get the weight shifted enough to make a 90 degree downhill turn, so I kept going and looped below the biathlon range on a big trail. It was longer but faster skiing and less climb, so not sure how the time worked out.
Everything else was totally clean navigation and mostly clean skiing (a few sketchy turns and downhills, but nothing I bailed on). So I'll chalk that up a successful race. Feels good after the junk we had for the middle. Scott and Adrian also had pretty clean races, and we ended up a little behind Japan and a bit ahead of Germany in the fight for the third-world-ski-o championships.
skate ski warm up/down 30:00 [2]
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)
Friday Mar 8, 2013 #
7 AM
run 29:10 [2] 2.91 mi (10:01 / mi) +44m 9:34 / mi
Morning jog with Scott. Temps dropped a lot overnight, things froze, and we got a couple inches of snow, so they should be able to get the tracks back into fine shape. Things are looking good for the next two days.
4 PM
skate ski 25:26 [3] 5.47 km (4:39 / km) +117m 4:12 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)
Wednesday Mar 6, 2013 #
9 AM
skate ski warm up/down 15:00 [3] 2.0 km (7:30 / km)
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)
quickie warmup ski around the stadium to make sure I was soaked by the start.
ski-o! race 1:31:00 [3] *** 15.0 km (6:04 / km)
19c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)
Ski-WOC middle distance
Well it was raining. All night and all morning. Except when it was pouring. And windy. I was out on Alex's balcony brushing skis in the morning and saw a 50ft pine tree get blown over in the wind, and thought that was crazy. Then during the race I heard one fall over in the woods somewhere and thought it was crazier. Then one fell over on the trail 20 ft behind me and I just about crapped myself. In total I heard 5 fall nearby during the race, climbed over 10-15 that were already down on the trails (a couple of which required taking off the skis, one of which was the one they hung the control on), and spent a lot of quality time on the ground. It was 40-some degrees, pouring the whole race, and the trails were absolute crap. I had first start group, so I was making first tracks for about the first half of my race, though given the number of trees actively falling I probably had fewer of those to go over/around. I couldn't pole at all in the soft stuff, and did get really frustrated at it a couple times, which doesn't help, so attitude fail there. Made a bunch of stupid route choices trying to avoid narrow climbs, but in the end they probably weren't much better, so also fail there. Ran smack into a fallen tree that was across the trail in the bottom of a downhill gully and got a good bruise across my waist, saw it coming but there was nowhere to go so I just crouched down and hugged it so it didn't take out my knees. Also fell spectacularly after stumbling on the fluffy tops of another fallen tree, which kind of hurt my shoulder. It still works and all, but it's sore and the arm is doing its tingly thing, which I haven't had the pleasure of since wrestling. So a few injury fails as well. But hey I didn't break any skis!
Sprint relay tomorrow, Ali and Scott. Scott and I were basically tied for it, so we just flipped a coin. Which I'm fine with since the conditions look to be just as crappy tomorrow, and Scott is lighter so has more of a chance of poling than I do. Plus I won't complain about an extra day for the various bits to heal.
Well it was raining. All night and all morning. Except when it was pouring. And windy. I was out on Alex's balcony brushing skis in the morning and saw a 50ft pine tree get blown over in the wind, and thought that was crazy. Then during the race I heard one fall over in the woods somewhere and thought it was crazier. Then one fell over on the trail 20 ft behind me and I just about crapped myself. In total I heard 5 fall nearby during the race, climbed over 10-15 that were already down on the trails (a couple of which required taking off the skis, one of which was the one they hung the control on), and spent a lot of quality time on the ground. It was 40-some degrees, pouring the whole race, and the trails were absolute crap. I had first start group, so I was making first tracks for about the first half of my race, though given the number of trees actively falling I probably had fewer of those to go over/around. I couldn't pole at all in the soft stuff, and did get really frustrated at it a couple times, which doesn't help, so attitude fail there. Made a bunch of stupid route choices trying to avoid narrow climbs, but in the end they probably weren't much better, so also fail there. Ran smack into a fallen tree that was across the trail in the bottom of a downhill gully and got a good bruise across my waist, saw it coming but there was nowhere to go so I just crouched down and hugged it so it didn't take out my knees. Also fell spectacularly after stumbling on the fluffy tops of another fallen tree, which kind of hurt my shoulder. It still works and all, but it's sore and the arm is doing its tingly thing, which I haven't had the pleasure of since wrestling. So a few injury fails as well. But hey I didn't break any skis!
Sprint relay tomorrow, Ali and Scott. Scott and I were basically tied for it, so we just flipped a coin. Which I'm fine with since the conditions look to be just as crappy tomorrow, and Scott is lighter so has more of a chance of poling than I do. Plus I won't complain about an extra day for the various bits to heal.
Tuesday Mar 5, 2013 #
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Its morning o'clock, and has been dumping snow for a couple hours. This is good, because the other option was dumping rain, and this means it's sort of close to freezing (like 34 or so). No idea how the tracks are, as everything is embargoed, but they're out grooming. We've spent the morning between various stages of waxing, panic waxing, eating porridge, and snorting flouros. Team mood: psyched.
10 AM
skate ski warm up/down 45:00 [3] 5.0 km (9:00 / km)
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)
warmup, and then more warmup. starts were delayed by an hour because the bus from the other accomodation took 1h40 to get here instead of 30 mins.
ski-o! race 21:00 [4] *** 5.0 km (4:12 / km)
13c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)
Ski-WOC sprint!
Map is up for the moment at the gps tracking site, but they say that might disappear in a bit until the end of the week.
Good race, tracks were soft, but better than yesterday, and I felt good skiing for the most part. I had a couple routes I could have done better, but I made all the decisions quickly and didn't mess anything up in the execution, which was good. Took an out of the way big-trail route in the middle from 8-9 because I started getting ahead of myself and also pissed at the trails, but that let me reset the brain and start reading ahead again.
Map is up for the moment at the gps tracking site, but they say that might disappear in a bit until the end of the week.
Good race, tracks were soft, but better than yesterday, and I felt good skiing for the most part. I had a couple routes I could have done better, but I made all the decisions quickly and didn't mess anything up in the execution, which was good. Took an out of the way big-trail route in the middle from 8-9 because I started getting ahead of myself and also pissed at the trails, but that let me reset the brain and start reading ahead again.
skate ski warm up/down 20:00 [3] 3.0 km (6:40 / km)
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)
cooldown in the finish field waiting for quarantine to end.
Monday Mar 4, 2013 #
7 AM
run 20:37 [2] 1.96 mi (10:31 / mi) +40m 9:54 / mi
boys team morning jog
11 AM
ski-o! 40:43 [2] *** 7.9 km (5:09 / km) +228m 4:30 / km
6c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)
Model event. Skied around to the couple controls, then a lap up around a big trail loop to see what the hillside looked like, then some more controls. Its like 40 degrees, rained a whole lot yesterday, and didn't get even close to freezing last night, so the trails are so soft they're basically not trails. Though they're better than the parts that aren't supposed to be trails, which are impassable. So the race goal for tomorrow is to not get frustrated with how much the trails suck. That is all.
Also yesterday's bus from the airport in Ust got stuck in the slush on the road, so the teams that arrived yesterday never got here and slept the night in the bus on the highway before getting dug out this morning.
Also yesterday's bus from the airport in Ust got stuck in the slush on the road, so the teams that arrived yesterday never got here and slept the night in the bus on the highway before getting dug out this morning.
Sunday Mar 3, 2013 #
11 AM
ski-o! 1:16:48 [3] *** 13.78 km (5:34 / km) +16m 5:33 / km
31c shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)
Back to the same training map as yesterday, but this time with more raining and +8 degree temps. Drew a random course of a bunch of controls, skied it, skied it backwards, then traded maps with scott and skied his course, then skied around the outside of the map. It was sortof drizzling for most of it, then it started raining when we were done, then it started pouring once we got home. Boo. Its switched back to snow by dinner time, but not really convincingly.
Saturday Mar 2, 2013 #
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Pictures!
- dodgy train ride
- morning jogeroo
- event center
- ski-o training trails 1 and 2 and 3
All of them here.
- dodgy train ride
- morning jogeroo
- event center
- ski-o training trails 1 and 2 and 3
All of them here.
10 AM
run 28:25 [3] 2.89 mi (9:50 / mi) +44m 9:23 / mi
Success! We made it. Got our flight to Oskemon (dodged a few overweight baggage charges), got all our stuff, and found the organizer and a few translators. Its been snowing though, so the road up to Ridder was closed, so the bus ride up there got axed. We went out for a quick drive around the city to see some traffic and snow, and then had mayonaise pizza, then got to the train station for a hot sleepy four hour train ride up to Ridder instead. Had some dinner, found our rooms, found the single shared shower for the entire 200 room dorm building, and then insta-crashed for the night.
This morning we got the tour of the wax rooms and stadium, hit breakfast, and went out for a team joggeroo back down the access road. No skiing here, since this is all the competition terrain, but this afternoon we'll get a ride over to the training areas in the next village where some of the other teams are staying. That'll be a pain for the next two days of training, but I think it'll be much better to deal with that now, and then have all the races be right out our door rather than the other way around.
This morning we got the tour of the wax rooms and stadium, hit breakfast, and went out for a team joggeroo back down the access road. No skiing here, since this is all the competition terrain, but this afternoon we'll get a ride over to the training areas in the next village where some of the other teams are staying. That'll be a pain for the next two days of training, but I think it'll be much better to deal with that now, and then have all the races be right out our door rather than the other way around.
3 PM
ski-o! 56:47 [3] 11.08 km (5:07 / km) +19m 5:05 / km
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)
Ski-o! Went up to the training map to play, which is in Sinegorye, right where a bunch of the other teams are staying. The snow was solid and warm and greasy fast, just like home, and thus awesome. We picked up some blank maps, but no one had any pens, so we just went out to ski around. I decided to play the trail-score-o game, to try to ski every single trail segment on the map, ideally in the most efficient way possible. Also known as the omg-ze-brain-she-hurts game. There's a whole lot more to keep track of than normal score-o, and also you have to not die while ski-o-ing into trees. I was doing really well at first, then got all sorts of confused in the middle when I started looping back towards some trails I had hit earlier and couldn't remember which ones I'd done already. So I doubled up a bunch of them in a not-perfectly efficient way, and then quickroute says I missed a tiny little short one in the middle. Though I doubled up the segment just north of it, so I think I intended to hit it I was just a bit lost at the time. Oops.
ski-o! 24:14 [3] 4.53 km (5:21 / km)
shoes: 13 fischer rcr ski-o (109)
Had some time left and it was all awesome out so I skied around for a bit finding all the black things on the map, and then wandering a bit.
Friday Mar 1, 2013 #
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In KAZ, almost there, after a pleasant 40 hours or so of airplanes so far. Five of us (all but Anna) met up in Amsterdam and then had a flight here to Almaty, which got in at 2:30am. Hence the team USA pile (there's more, but I'm too lazy to get up for a better view). We're chilling until noon for our last flight to Oskemon, then a bus up to Ridder.
