Training Log Archive: RLShadow

Event: ROC - Webster Park Ski-O
 

Webster Ski-O, Green course, on snowshoes. Pretty slow going much of the way, due to lots of fresh snow and less-than-expected tracking on many of the smaller trails. The Mendon course favored runners vs skiers, while this course certainly favored skiers vs people doing it using snowshoes, or worse, regular shoes/boots.

One very long, kind of annoying dogleg, based on my route choice (6-7-8), but I could have picked a different route from 6 to 7 and avoided the dogleg.

When I left, I was in last place out of 3 finishers on the Green course. I have my fingers crossed that someone who was still out on the course when I left took longer than I did so I don't have the honor of last place ...

Green - Splits

Drop-in pickleball at the Rec Center. Player right-handed the entire time. I'll see, tomorrow probably, if that was a mistake or not ...

A couple of inches had fallen today, plus the plow had come through, so I decided after getting home from pickleball that I'd clear the snow from the driveway.

Snowblowing the driveway, after getting home from a few days at Holiday Valley and finding 5 inches of fresh snow covering it. I have to say, it's great having a snowblower ... without one, it would have been at least a little stressful to have to deal with shoveling the driveway, on top of wanting to unpack and unwind from the trip, plus go down and fetch our dogs from our dog-sitter in Bristol Center. Having a snowblower -- no issues! Start it up (on the first pull), then clear out the driveway and sidewalk in little time or effort.

Snowshoed with the dogs on the trail through the woods at the end of our street (twice around), then a short jaunt over into the next neighborhood, mainly to tramp down a bit of a path from the woods to the next street. Sunny but still a bit on the nippy side (6 degrees I think it was).

Nice nippy morning -- 3 below zero with a respectable (although not Laramie-force) wind. I think the wind chill was reported to be -25 or so. I had 4 layers on top plus my ski jacket. Toe warmers, hand warmers. Two layers on my head plus my helmet.

Some more skiing in sub zero wind chills! Actually more was done but wasn't recorded as the GPS was inadvertently turned off.

Took way more than the usual warm-up breaks.

Holiday Valley, with Cheryl and trailsnail. Morning until mid-morning break.

More skiing, from mid-morning break until we quit early afternoon. Day started at 10 degrees, rose slightly to 15 degrees by the time we quit. I stayed reasonably warm (thanks to chemical toe-warmers which did their job), except my hands were getting cold just before the mid-morning break, and then again just before we stopped for the day.

First, around the path through the woods in our back yard. Very deep snow to work my way through -- no one had walked or snowshoed the path in a while. The dogs were free ranging at that point and even they chose not to follow me, not a bad decision, since it would have been a lot tougher for them than me. Then down to the end of the street and around the path through the woods, with the dogs in tow this time.