Training Log Archive: Blainey

Event: Fox Chaser II (U.S. 2015 IS / IC / Trail O Champs)
 

First day of Fox Chaser. Started off slow, in the past I always seem to get flustered with a new map so thought I would take it at an easy pass to prevent mistakes. Made it to the first control with no problem, slowly increased speed and confidence as I went through the race. Tried to stick to the trails as much as possible to avoid the icky stuff. A few route choices that were not optimal and overshot a few controls due to lack of confidence. But otherwise a great race! Was not looking forward to the snow but it was nice and grippy and sun was shining!

Day 1 - Green X - Splits

Twenty minutes on the treadmill after a long day of travels down to Philadelphia. Who would have thought it would have brought some of the worst driving conditions of the winter. All safe and sound and looking forward to racing tomorrow but could do without the snow.

Just wasn't meant to be a clean race, car would not go over 20 km/hr on way there so had to turn home and grab a ride with Kris (hero) and then a shoelace malfunction at the start (ugly). All this lead to a big error leaving the first checkpoint. Managed to figure it out and get back on track, was pretty clean from there on. Good eats to finish the night.

Last day of skiing for the year, headed to Holiday Valley with all the boys, as weather improved throughout the day snow got heavier and heavier! Quads were really burning by the end of the day! (5 hours on the hill, amazing how many runs we got in during the first 2 hours!).

Warm up spin

Core and strength circuit, finally put gym membership to use.