Training Log Archive: Jagge

Over the lake, most of the Porttivaara 20 km route but then before Ainola up to Pöllylampi, down to caravan area, over the rairoad by bridge, then I tried to find way using alamaasto tracks but I missed a turn near Sokos hotel and had to do some off piste skiing in the very end. With skin skis.

cooking and consuming sausages

Back felt better today, so tried to do some easy classic skiing.

We skied 7 km and consuming 2 makkaras / person.

Skating,kids ski word to vaaran valaistu 18 km to the cottage. Back was better. Easy skating is fine, classic is sill no no.

One day of skiing was enough for my back?
So 5 hours in Angry Birds activity park in stead of skiing.

Vaaran valaistu, Vuokatti. Short easy skate skiing just to see will back tolerate it. It was so-so.

same, recorded with Ambit3 Peak

Vuokatti, Porttivaara 20km route with skin skis.

Suunto spartan ultra.

yesterday's run animated using google earth:
https://youtu.be/GdtkPHQM9_I

With HTRC people. Did not know anyone and no one of them did know me. Strange run, 15 runner, one of the guys guided us,he knew to route and he had GPS. All others had fancy trail running gear with hydration backs and vests and stuff, but no map. I had no fancy gear, but map at hand.

Device: Suunto Ambit3 Peak

(Movescount sync)

same run recorded with Spartan Ultra

One lap hard, 3.1km 10.30 (3.23 min/km). I waxed skis, but best glide was already gone for warm-up lap, and it wasn't that good from begin with, for lazy waxing and fluorless waxes.

(Spartan ultra glonass off)

Three laps slighlty faster for a chance, 9.3 km at 3:36 min/km.

(Spartan ultra glonass on)

With MinnaR

About 150 km on skin skis, moderately easy skiing on average about 4 min/km pace or slightly over. Skis have been great. Glide has been really good. Skin does not touch ground on downhills so skis glide downhills on rails at least as as well as my best skate skis, same when double poling. No problems skiing outside rails or changing lanes, I can even sort of skate with some steps if needed, so skis are stiff enough to make skin not brake too much. On soft snow I can feel and hear skin slowing down glide a little, but not enough to make it annoying or make it difficult to keep balance. Grip has not been 100% and I need to focus on putting all weight on the ski when I kick and on really icy conditions I have to ski outside rails to get enough grip. Softer ski would provide more grip and make skiing easier but the trade off would be worse glide and making lane changes difficult for skis stopping entirely instead of gliding. With my knees I prefer not to face plant. I believe every time I would have been able to wax slightly better waxable skis, but not much really. And in practice these has been better than my average waxable skis I used to use before because I hardly never bothered to use enough time for waxing to actually make them better than these skin skis.

But I can see for some folks these skin skis may not be that good. If skiing technique is lacking or there is no fitness to jump full weight on skis all the time, this stiff skis would not provide enough grip and skis would have to be softer, and then glide and other aspects would be worse and skiing less enjoyable and waxable skis or even oprigrip/nanogrip skis might feel a lot better choice.

Device: Suunto Spartan Ultra

(Movescount sync)