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Saturday Jan 17, 2009 #
ski-o! race 1:09:00 [4] 7.4 km (9:19 / km) +310m 7:43 / km
SUI Race 6 Middle
Shoulder felt ok, I couldn't really use it to pole, but it didn't hurt much with no force on it so I decided to go out. Almost went with just one pole, but took the second one for balance so it didn't screw up my normally awesome form.
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Chase start, but only for the first hour, so I was in minute intervals. Had a tough time reading the map, it was 1:10 but only filled half a page, and had butterfly loops, so the course was a mess of circles and numbers. Made a bad route choice to 2 that cost three or four mins, but after that it started into the narrow trails where I was hopeless with one arm, so I slowed down and took it easy. It was a fun course, maybe just because I did it so slow, but I had some good legs where all the junctions were where I thought they'd be (also had a few that I got through by luck though).
Shoulder felt ok, I couldn't really use it to pole, but it didn't hurt much with no force on it so I decided to go out. Almost went with just one pole, but took the second one for balance so it didn't screw up my normally awesome form.
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Chase start, but only for the first hour, so I was in minute intervals. Had a tough time reading the map, it was 1:10 but only filled half a page, and had butterfly loops, so the course was a mess of circles and numbers. Made a bad route choice to 2 that cost three or four mins, but after that it started into the narrow trails where I was hopeless with one arm, so I slowed down and took it easy. It was a fun course, maybe just because I did it so slow, but I had some good legs where all the junctions were where I thought they'd be (also had a few that I got through by luck though).
skate ski 1:30:00 [2] 13.0 km (6:55 / km)
Afternoon ski with dad around the skate trails at the event map, then down a long hill off the north side. Came back up with no poles to save the arm, it was just enough of a hill to be a good leg workout.
Back to Munich tomorrow and home on Monday, don't get to hang around to watch the Swisscheese in the Swisschamps race tomorrow.
Back to Munich tomorrow and home on Monday, don't get to hang around to watch the Swisscheese in the Swisschamps race tomorrow.
Friday Jan 16, 2009 #
ski-o! race 29:15 [4] 3.1 km (9:26 / km) +130m 7:48 / km
SUI Race 5 Sprint
Sprint race in Sui. Had an early start time, so I got to watch a few people start but no one finish. Everybody took off down a wide groomed patch then disappeared down into the woods. When I got the map I glanced at the first leg, saw that I wanted to do the same, and started looking at the other legs. So I started fast out of the start, and hit the drop into the woods at full speed. Unfortunately I hadn't noticed it was a narrow trail I was headed onto, so I almost bit it against a huge rock and a tree.
Did the next two ok, then had a fast downhill leg into a field. Came screaming down a narrow trail, tried to parrallel stop at the control but punched through the trail with both skis and yardsaled fantastically. Came down hard on my left arm, and jammed the shoulder pretty bad. Finished the rest of the course with one poling arm, but the trails were so soft (couldn't pole hard anyway) that I don't think it hurt the time by more than a few minutes. It hurts a lot now, so we'll see if I can move tomorrow.
Sprint race in Sui. Had an early start time, so I got to watch a few people start but no one finish. Everybody took off down a wide groomed patch then disappeared down into the woods. When I got the map I glanced at the first leg, saw that I wanted to do the same, and started looking at the other legs. So I started fast out of the start, and hit the drop into the woods at full speed. Unfortunately I hadn't noticed it was a narrow trail I was headed onto, so I almost bit it against a huge rock and a tree.
Did the next two ok, then had a fast downhill leg into a field. Came screaming down a narrow trail, tried to parrallel stop at the control but punched through the trail with both skis and yardsaled fantastically. Came down hard on my left arm, and jammed the shoulder pretty bad. Finished the rest of the course with one poling arm, but the trails were so soft (couldn't pole hard anyway) that I don't think it hurt the time by more than a few minutes. It hurts a lot now, so we'll see if I can move tomorrow.
Wednesday Jan 14, 2009 #
ski-o! race 2:29:00 [4] 30.0 km (4:58 / km) +550m 4:33 / km
ITA Race 4 Long
Long race in Italy. Course said 21km for straight line distance, but we had lots of non-straight trails, so skiing distance was 30 or so. The map was a big nordic center, so there was a good backbone of main trails. And since it was in the bottom of the valley, you were never more than 100m off one even on the little trails. So fine navigation was pretty easy, there was just this river across the middle of the valley that only had a couple bridges, and they used that to force the left vs right bridge choice many many times.
Our course took two laps up the valley (over three maps). First lap went all the way up into the sprint area we were in yesterday, and took a huge climb to get up there. Second lap stayed down in the main valley, but took at least six trips back and forth across the river bridges. One of which was a car road, so the two foot wide snow track they shoveled onto one side quickly turned brown and full of gravel. Dad shredded a ski, I'm too afraid to look at mine. Though on a happy note, I've been on the 160s all week, and they're awesome for the narrow stuff and also not broken yet.
Long race in Italy. Course said 21km for straight line distance, but we had lots of non-straight trails, so skiing distance was 30 or so. The map was a big nordic center, so there was a good backbone of main trails. And since it was in the bottom of the valley, you were never more than 100m off one even on the little trails. So fine navigation was pretty easy, there was just this river across the middle of the valley that only had a couple bridges, and they used that to force the left vs right bridge choice many many times.
Our course took two laps up the valley (over three maps). First lap went all the way up into the sprint area we were in yesterday, and took a huge climb to get up there. Second lap stayed down in the main valley, but took at least six trips back and forth across the river bridges. One of which was a car road, so the two foot wide snow track they shoveled onto one side quickly turned brown and full of gravel. Dad shredded a ski, I'm too afraid to look at mine. Though on a happy note, I've been on the 160s all week, and they're awesome for the narrow stuff and also not broken yet.
Tuesday Jan 13, 2009 #
ski-o! race 35:30 [4] 3.4 km (10:26 / km) +70m 9:28 / km
ITA Race 3 Sprint
Fun course, very different than AUT. In the bottom of a river valley with only a little room on each side for the trails, so there was one or two wide groomed trails then a small mess of narrow stuff in between. One dodgy dotted stream crossing point that I had to hit 3 times and never could do fast. Saw somebody try to run across lower down and fall in up to their ass, that was probably chilly.
Felt more in control of both the navigation and the skiing than the the comparable sprints in Russia and Sui, but still wasn't much faster on the leaders.
Fun course, very different than AUT. In the bottom of a river valley with only a little room on each side for the trails, so there was one or two wide groomed trails then a small mess of narrow stuff in between. One dodgy dotted stream crossing point that I had to hit 3 times and never could do fast. Saw somebody try to run across lower down and fall in up to their ass, that was probably chilly.
Felt more in control of both the navigation and the skiing than the the comparable sprints in Russia and Sui, but still wasn't much faster on the leaders.
Monday Jan 12, 2009 #
Note
Travel day. 8 hour bus ride to Italy. Smaller seats than an airplane!
Sunday Jan 11, 2009 #
ski-o! race 2:07:00 [4] 14.5 km (8:46 / km) +750m 6:58 / km
AUT Race 2 Long
Long and brutal on the climb. Had a solid race for the first half, felt good on the skiing, made some good route choices. After the map exchange we had two big climbs in a row, where I had a definite bonk, then made a couple stupid route choices on the next few which caused more climb and it just snowballed. Felt totally dead by the finish. Still pretty happy with it, even though I could have knocked off quite a few minutes with better routes.
Off to Italy tomorrow for deep snow and narrower trails.
Long and brutal on the climb. Had a solid race for the first half, felt good on the skiing, made some good route choices. After the map exchange we had two big climbs in a row, where I had a definite bonk, then made a couple stupid route choices on the next few which caused more climb and it just snowballed. Felt totally dead by the finish. Still pretty happy with it, even though I could have knocked off quite a few minutes with better routes.
Off to Italy tomorrow for deep snow and narrower trails.