Training Log Archive: 'Bent

Day 1 of the Snowgaine.

Drove down with Bash, MBR (Tiny and Noshnoj) and Salomon (LeAnimal and Phatty) all piled in the Bullfrog van.
We had less than an hour to plan our route, and decide on skate skis, classic, waxless or snowshoes. Turns out that bikes were the winning decision, even though you had to haul them to every control! We went with snowshoes, although as it turns out many roads were actually snowmobile trails, and skis would have kicked butt this day.
We did a lot of road running with Bash on light tow, and had an ambitious route- maybe too ambitious. We wasted some time on one low-value control putting snowshoes on and off and we had to bail on a 100 pointer near the end, but otherwise things went well. Soft, soggy snow in most places, but great terrain- hilly, open woods mostly. Bash's nav was great!

We did an 8km road run back- with a big heavy pack it was pretty tough, but we had an OK day.

C3 night- Crash, Bash and 'Bent. Since we're tapering, this was an easier run around the block, with some harder work on the uphill leg but less than usual.

A fast but particularly mean core workout with the evil Caron S. The sore bits from yesterday complained.

A particularly easy yoga session, as this one was more about upper body with motion etc and less about being gumby-boy.

C • Not Easy! 2

K/O's power Link workout, now that we have some heavier dumbells.

C • Super strength 3

A hard run to work with the snowhshoes with Bulletdog. The crust makes for a pretty solid workout.

Nice moonlit jog back with 2 dogs. They trotted in the hard ski tracks, while I pounded through the crust next to the trail.

A bit brisk for the hounds this morning, but a beautiful ski.
There's a bit of fresh powder in the icy tracks now.

Icy commute along the new route, with an extra loop on the way there.
It will be 5-10 minutes longer this route, especially counting the mandatory skis-off hill climb.

The dreaded hardcore DVD.

Workout #1. Still haven't gotten enough dumbells for the K/O workout.

Skate ski at Albion. Very fast and effortless on the flats, but kamikazi on any downhills due to lots of icy ruts, and no grooming for days. We had to pull the plug early.

Broke trail for the dogs, as they're having a hard time with the crust. Bash came with me to confirm control K.
I did indeed go straight to it, but since there was no flag when I did it I had spent a fair bit of extra time going to other clearings nearby just in case.