Training Log Archive: ndobbs

Fontainebleau!

Tour Denecourt

Not the best area, but still wonderful. Went gently, calf held up. Couple of small mistakes, no compass-free disasters.

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45 minutes in the exercise room doing some stretching and elliptical and strength and rowing, so not much of any of them.

Paris is funny. In a café, sitting beside me was a Jewish girl who did maths, works in finance but is considering reconverting as an astrologer. Same chair an hour later was another Jew, Tunisian parents, works in finance, studies maths on the side. In a bar later, the guy sitting beside me was a maths teacher.

Hahaaa!

First time doing the Lignon loop since Christmas. There was a time I could do it in 65...

Past under Pont Butin. Progress.

Seminar announcement received today:

Title : all you do is clutter up my mailbox. I have not forgotten everything is in the hands of Accounting
Speaker : Giuseppe Genovese
Institute: Universität Zürich


Oops

Went up above Col de la Faucille for camping-stove-fondue in the snow. Descent by tractor tyre tube! Best thing I've done outside Geneva for a while.

http://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/

How good are you?

C • 41¿ http://www.thebestscho... 2

felt like it was nearly getting risky

Pro tip 1. Before rolling, warm wine bottle in microwave with a little water.

Pro tip 2. Remove the metal stickers first.

Not sure my tips are the best.

C • pro tip #2 2

Long, slow run. Bit of surveying locally, then around the back of the zoo and back.

A bunch of stretching earlier. Need to do more, and to be more diligent about the calf exercises, which I have only been doing sporadically. Still not right, but will hopefully be okay to orienteer in two weeks.

Drafting in OCAD /parallels/mac would be so much nicer if control-right-click worked.

Skiving with Ondra from La Combe du Lac. Way faster than I normally go, and then really sped up from the car park to the apartment.

Good times.

I wonder how many new subscribers there are since AP started featuring on woo.

Seemed fine. A bit wary of going further or up/down a hill, so kept it short. Hail.

A lovely place in a lovely valley. http://www.latza.ch/index.php/en/

The xc ski tracks break to cross their car park.

https://www.google.ch/search?q=mueller+electra+fre...

Not the most famous brand...

Pre-breakfast. Avoided a hole. Downhill, downwind to start with... which meant a tough return. Cloudy but nice.

Skiing from Evolene. Seemed slower than yesterday evening.

Said hi to the locals before leaving.


The Pyramides d'Euseigne are pretty cool.

I had been wondering recently how people do this.



I had just finished the loop above Arolla, there was thirty metres of steep down to the car park. My snowploughing skills being what they are, I ended up falling, tip of the ski went into a snowbank which was actually a stone wall. Slow, but enough to snap.

It was at least all very pretty.


Afterwards I got free skis from a shop in Hauderes, just had to pay 25chf to transfer the bindings over. Yay. And free coffee from the bar across the street while I was waiting.

Haudères, testing my new old skis. Seemed good.

Better late than never
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/sonia...

C • After all these years... 2

From the hotel. Uphill tracks seemed to be missing the link to the trails above Arolla.

grant proposal submitted, zzz

Apparently there are ten or so people from Geneva applying for ERC grants at the moment. At least three have serious problems because the EU submission system uses Adobe and is basically incompatible with Mac.