Training Log Archive: chitownclark

Don't know if Downhill Telemark skiing qualifies as "training" but at my age, I definitely found it to be a workout. Getting down into that telemark crouch, first right knee, then left, in linked turns all the way down the hill at Alpine Valley...quite the workout. Plus the balancing demand on those thin XC profile skis.

So I'm going to log half the time I was on the mountain, figuring that the rest of that time I was riding the lifts back up, paused on the way down discussing technique with my real estate buddies, or lying flat on my back, spiraling down the snowy slope.

C • YOU THE MAN!! 2

Biking in snow, up to Torstenson's Glass. Pick up $200 of 3/8" plate glass and bike back through the slippery streets, 50lbs of glass slabs on my back.

C • that sounds a little dicey,... 5

Fresh snow and sunny. Wanted to go XC, but got hung up waiting for the Maytag guy (again). Coin boxes on new machines were miskeyed, and MacGray offered to switch for free.

Ran around the buildings, and then up to liquor store to find that returnable beer bottles are no longer available, even on special order. Increasing numbers of states now have bottle deposits...and returnable bottles have been phased out by all the breweries??? What's wrong with this picture?

C • breweries have probably don... 2

Normal Ladder. PR's on both 1500m (6:05.9) and 1000m (4:02.4). Felt strong for some reason after run outside. Wish we had gone skiing tho.