Ride in to work with AD. The first bit on F&M's trail was almost unrideable with crust over soft snow and I had to hike-a-bike the hills, but once I hit trails that had snowshoe or fatty traffic the riding was really nice, and we did extra singletrack. The last bit was a tough slog again but probably better than skiing on refrozen snow.
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Night ride home. Again the middle was pure bliss, but the beginning and end were AR-tough slogging.
Ski in with the mighty bazingadog. Good fast conditions skiing in at -5, slow and sticky coming home in +5. The big boy met 7 other dog buddies, including an 8week old Border Collie who could be Adventuredog's mini-me.
Looks like fatbiking is the way to go right now.
Came home to a shock- table set, candlelight, 3 course gourmet dinner plus dessert- I am not worthy.
Out with Bash and the boys. As always AD drove the big guy nuts at first but they settled in.
9 AM
Snowshoeing race 56:44 10.66 km (5:19 / km) +138m5:00 / km ahr:171 max:202 shoes: Saucony Razor
Personal Best snowshoe/run duathlon.
Barrie put a big target on my back in his pre-race announcements.
I did the Snowshoe/run - two 4k snowshoe laps and one 4k snowy road lap. I led the pack of snowshoe runners from the start and never saw the ones behind me- just ran my HR.
I did pass a bunch of fatbikers, and lapped some 4k snowshoers. A fair number of the 8k bike/4k run category folks were ahead of me on the out-and-back run as they got a 3 min head start and biking was faster on this flattish doubletrack course. All 3 of my "4k" splits were within a minute, and very close to the 2015 race. I transitioned to studded shoes and left my Razors in the snowshoes, which was fast.
It may be that some of the hardcore athletes chose to bike instead. There was also a 16k bike, and the leader passed me on lap 3 just as I was finishing lap 2.
Barrie did play up my win at the finish, which is fair I guess after hyping at the start.
Barb was 2nd female in our race.
The event was well run, and Barrie took extra care to make sure nobody went off- course.