Training Log Archive: AliC

Event: Balsams Ski-O
 

Warm up heading down and some skiing back and forth and then also includes warm down back up to alpine lodge with Sam, chatting away

NE Ski-o Champs @ Balsams, Blue Middle

Decided to enter blue to get more training in, see where I was losing time to the guys. Ended up 3rd behind Adrian and Robbie, not bad!

Skis were fast and think I mostly made good route choices, least happy with 4-5, should have started by turning around. Skiing up the wall was good hard work and then down the yellow, but totally ungroomed field was a blast! Almost fell several times, being jerked forward and backwards as the snow change consistencies. Got distracted by the road for 12-13-14, comparing to Adrian and Alex shows it probably wasn't faster, in either direction.

Another set of scrapes for the ski-o skis acquried at the top before the yellow downhill. Guess that's how it goes, but still not happy- will now be the outside edge.

Trying to warm up in the blustery field!

Try 1 at the Balsams Sprint. Some one had gone over the fields with a snowmobile and dragger thing, so map didn't include all of reality. And then most of the dotted tracks made with a snowshoe had totally filled in, so impossible to find. But it was still a sprint, just a different challenge than mapped! First time through went ok, basically just kept track of controls where they were relative to each other because you could see all in the big field.

2nd try at sprint, knew where everything was, just faltered once when I got confused by the presence of 6 heading to 8.

Warm down in the white out! Really could not see anything and snow just stinging face, would have been more of an orienteering challenge in that!!

Blue Saturday Middle Distance - Splits