Training Log Archive: 'Bent

Ski with 2 dogs. The breaking crust gave them a hard time until we hit my old snowshoe tracks. I may need to put boots on them. Had to cut it short.

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Off to the bike show this PM- got to pick up my tuned up 'bent and work a bit at the CARA booth.

Hard running in rain-crust over 15cm of powder, as the rain came down. Much more fun than the trainer yesterday.

I scouted and cleared a re-route for my commute. The dark green forest had an overgrown road or trail in it, and some judicious pruning lead to a nice narrow trail through the bush, to an underpass beneath the highway.

Workout #3

Bah. Drove to work as I had a meeting afterwards. It was cancelled, so I could have skied home in the snowstorm. Instead I rode the trainer. Some hard intervals, but not structured, just pounding along while the TDF guys climbed some steep hills on stage 19 of the 05 tour.

Hard Core DVD.

Very fast ski on the commute. Guess all that skiing up big climbs at altitude helped- I just flew up the hills.

Had to do some bushwhacking through dark green to scout a bypass of the construction on my ski trail. Imagine the nerve of them tearing up my trail over their property!

Workout #2. Haven't used the machine in quite a while, and the weights are back down accordingly on any exercises that are non-ski related.

Nice ski with Bulletdog. Went from -5 in the AM to +1 in the PM, so I used a shot of spray grip wax. Tomorrow it's waxless skis for sure.

On the way home it seems that they've bulldozed part of my ski trail, right up to a fence. Some re-routing and nav will be needed ASAP.

Note- lower calf/ ankles a bit sore from all the off-camber frozen lumps I ran in yesterday.

I did the Thomass Palgrave that I missed due to illness. I had studiously avoided seeing the map.
I did the full elite course with Bulletdog, and tried to stay off the old tracks where I could see them. I made a point of taking some unique routes to controls to add to the nav training aspect. Most of the flags were down, but I was confident that I had the right spots, especially as I could see old tracks there.
I made one silly route choice, but no real errors.

I was disappointed that even with my local knowledge I would have finished out of the time limit as an elite. Guess there's lots of room for improvement. Good thing I'm old and can drop controls. I suppose it would be easier seeing other runners and running in tracks.

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Easy jog to and from the start. Also a good chance to pick off burs.

Skate Ski at Canmore. I've felt sluggish all week, but today was the first in a while I felt good skating uphill.
Back home tonight.