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Sunday Jan 12, 2014 #
XC Ski race (Classic) 52:00 [3] 12.0 km (4:20 / km)
Krazy Klassic
Interval start, 3x4K laps. I did OK. Interval start is not good for me because I have a hard time focusing when I don't know where I stand. Many times, I had to bring myself back to "Hey, you're racing." Oh yeah. I was pleasantly surprised by how good the course was. After yesterday's waterski race, I had pretty low expectations. Surprise! There was only one place with water, but it was avoidable. The few slushy/icy spots were on flats/downhills and didn't slow me down. I did universal klister, which I rubbed in with my Swix red wax. It really didn't rub it in, but I had good kick. In fact, several people said that I ran away from them on every hill, but they made ground on me on the flats/downhills. Brenda passed me this way. At one point, I had hope that I could step it up and get away from her, but she'd already closed the interval gap, so no matter whether I beat her to the line, she'd already beat me. Darn, but at least she was my teammate.
I tied for 4th with someone else - exactly the same time, but they ranked her 4th and me 5th. What the heck? We should have both had 4th if you couldn't differentiate. On another note, our team walked away with the "Brumbaugh Cup" today (lowest combined score of top 5 men and top 3 women from the team) This helped us widen the gap. Maybe we can win one of the "cups" this year after all! (The Brumbaugh cup is actually a ceramic mug.)
Interval start, 3x4K laps. I did OK. Interval start is not good for me because I have a hard time focusing when I don't know where I stand. Many times, I had to bring myself back to "Hey, you're racing." Oh yeah. I was pleasantly surprised by how good the course was. After yesterday's waterski race, I had pretty low expectations. Surprise! There was only one place with water, but it was avoidable. The few slushy/icy spots were on flats/downhills and didn't slow me down. I did universal klister, which I rubbed in with my Swix red wax. It really didn't rub it in, but I had good kick. In fact, several people said that I ran away from them on every hill, but they made ground on me on the flats/downhills. Brenda passed me this way. At one point, I had hope that I could step it up and get away from her, but she'd already closed the interval gap, so no matter whether I beat her to the line, she'd already beat me. Darn, but at least she was my teammate.
I tied for 4th with someone else - exactly the same time, but they ranked her 4th and me 5th. What the heck? We should have both had 4th if you couldn't differentiate. On another note, our team walked away with the "Brumbaugh Cup" today (lowest combined score of top 5 men and top 3 women from the team) This helped us widen the gap. Maybe we can win one of the "cups" this year after all! (The Brumbaugh cup is actually a ceramic mug.)
XC Ski warm up/down (Classic) 1:10:00 [2] 13.0 km (5:23 / km)
Warm-up:
Did 1 lap plus another K (approx) before the race to check out the course conditions and to get my wax skied in since I didn't really rub it in. At first, I felt like it was dragging a bit, but that seemed to go away. Maybe that's why I was getting caught on the flats/downhills - it was still dragging a bit. I'm not very experienced at klister.
Cool-down:
Perfect timing! Did 2 laps at an easy pace over the course. It was nice and enjoyable. The crazy thing was that when I finished my second cool-down lap, there was someone racing who was still about a K behind me. That's some dedication to go out there and race even though you take twice the time of the bulk of the other racers. The course was a bit beat down for this, but it was still in pretty good shape - still better than expected.
Not sure on these distances this weekend. The skate shouldn't have been slower paces than the classic even though I was screwing around more yesterday during the warm-up/cool down (falling in the slush, helping look for car keys…) Could have just been that the snow was very slow yesterday.
Did 1 lap plus another K (approx) before the race to check out the course conditions and to get my wax skied in since I didn't really rub it in. At first, I felt like it was dragging a bit, but that seemed to go away. Maybe that's why I was getting caught on the flats/downhills - it was still dragging a bit. I'm not very experienced at klister.
Cool-down:
Perfect timing! Did 2 laps at an easy pace over the course. It was nice and enjoyable. The crazy thing was that when I finished my second cool-down lap, there was someone racing who was still about a K behind me. That's some dedication to go out there and race even though you take twice the time of the bulk of the other racers. The course was a bit beat down for this, but it was still in pretty good shape - still better than expected.
Not sure on these distances this weekend. The skate shouldn't have been slower paces than the classic even though I was screwing around more yesterday during the warm-up/cool down (falling in the slush, helping look for car keys…) Could have just been that the snow was very slow yesterday.