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Saturday Feb 6, 2016 #
Nordic (classic) 2:30:00 [4] 36.26 km (4:08 / km)
Neljän Vuoren hiihto, shortened to 36k, thank goodness. My ski shape is not good at all, having only spent this week trying to get back into ski shape. I think all this skiing has sorted out my knee, but I won't know until I get back to running.
Its crazy, at these races, you have to get there early and claim a spot in the start grid. I rolled in with an hour to go and already the first six rows had been taken. So, at the start, I was in like row 9, and it took maybe three strides for the person in front of me to crash.
My glide was super good today, and my kick was pretty good for the first 15k or so, and then it deteriorated incredibly fast. One minute it was there, the next minute I coulnd't climb darn near anything. That mean on the second lap I started skiing backwards, and rapidly got caught by many people. I could hang on to them whenever there was some gliding, but anything else I was generally useless. Couldn't climb, coudn't use my arms.
Clearly, I should have used some klister instead of K-base. Or put on more layers of K18. Or just not started doing gymnastics class last week. My shoulders were ruined even before the start.
Its crazy, at these races, you have to get there early and claim a spot in the start grid. I rolled in with an hour to go and already the first six rows had been taken. So, at the start, I was in like row 9, and it took maybe three strides for the person in front of me to crash.
My glide was super good today, and my kick was pretty good for the first 15k or so, and then it deteriorated incredibly fast. One minute it was there, the next minute I coulnd't climb darn near anything. That mean on the second lap I started skiing backwards, and rapidly got caught by many people. I could hang on to them whenever there was some gliding, but anything else I was generally useless. Couldn't climb, coudn't use my arms.
Clearly, I should have used some klister instead of K-base. Or put on more layers of K18. Or just not started doing gymnastics class last week. My shoulders were ruined even before the start.