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Thursday Feb 2, 2012 #
8 AM
XC skiing warm up/down 20:00 [1]
Warm up and down, back and forth, back and forth. Stressed a smidge about ski choice, but went with ski-o skis that are allowed to get scratched, cover was reported to be thin. Melted some fluoros in after Alex had an emergency chat with CSU's head waxing guru. Glad we did, conditions were certainly abrasive out there!!
9 AM
Ski-O race 47:23 ***
18c
World Cup Middle @ Tahoe XC
And 5th with a good race behind Tove A. (SWE), Josefine E. (SWE), Milka L. (FIN) and Anastaysiya S. (RUS). I'm happy I did pretty well on a more technical, less physical course. There were lots of small trails and they were icy and fast, so hard to negotiate even if you weren't also trying to look at your map. Since the snow level is low, the small trails also didn't stand out much and you had to be looking hard for them all the time.
Wasn't a perfectly clean race for me, but today's errors were in route choice as opposed to execution, which is a better feeling. I had two 30s mistakes when I chose to cut and it wasn't a good idea, and then maybe one 20s mistake not opting to go around on the big trail.
I skied rather cautiously after yesterday's junction issue, and did always maintain good contact, even though it meant coming to a full stop at least 5 times or so. Also did some serious map-grabbing with the right hand on the small detailed stuff. Unsure how you are supposed to remain not-falling-over and read the map at the same time, but the top girls just must be!!
So that's the last individual World Cup out here, but the sprint relay is tomorrow, I'll be paired with Adrian and Alex with Nikolay. Carl Fey and Chelsea F. will be USA Team #3, with an unofficial team of John Owens and Sonne too.
Also, I think we had 3 F21s come within ~1 minute on the US Champs long course: Kseniya, Yekaterina, Stina, very cool to have other women out and about doing some good ski-oing!
And 5th with a good race behind Tove A. (SWE), Josefine E. (SWE), Milka L. (FIN) and Anastaysiya S. (RUS). I'm happy I did pretty well on a more technical, less physical course. There were lots of small trails and they were icy and fast, so hard to negotiate even if you weren't also trying to look at your map. Since the snow level is low, the small trails also didn't stand out much and you had to be looking hard for them all the time.
Wasn't a perfectly clean race for me, but today's errors were in route choice as opposed to execution, which is a better feeling. I had two 30s mistakes when I chose to cut and it wasn't a good idea, and then maybe one 20s mistake not opting to go around on the big trail.
I skied rather cautiously after yesterday's junction issue, and did always maintain good contact, even though it meant coming to a full stop at least 5 times or so. Also did some serious map-grabbing with the right hand on the small detailed stuff. Unsure how you are supposed to remain not-falling-over and read the map at the same time, but the top girls just must be!!
So that's the last individual World Cup out here, but the sprint relay is tomorrow, I'll be paired with Adrian and Alex with Nikolay. Carl Fey and Chelsea F. will be USA Team #3, with an unofficial team of John Owens and Sonne too.
Also, I think we had 3 F21s come within ~1 minute on the US Champs long course: Kseniya, Yekaterina, Stina, very cool to have other women out and about doing some good ski-oing!
4 PM
Running 20:30 [2]
Joggeroo with Alex around the neighborhood, dropped by Greg's, chatted wtih Marku and Kestrel for smidge, then met John and Adrian on our way back, friendly run!