Training Log Archive: 'Bent

Highlands retro day.
Fairly quick corn snow, even on my ancient and dubious retro skate equipment.

I skied everything once and repeated yellow and some orange, but my knee was protesting from last weekend’s ski-o-fest so headed in.

Workout 3, rehab and also split and hauled a couple of loads of firewood now that it’s melted out. Too windy to venture in the woods.

Icy run with the big boy. Had to help him up a boblsed-run hill.
Could use more spikes on a short part of the commute.

Funeral (old family friend- it was his time) and tech issues = physical rest day.

Foggy run in a little soft snow followed by muddy bare ground and mostly ice.
Run home was almost all hardpack ice. BZdog was sliding all over the place.
Overdressed in the AM, left my jacket and was underdressed for the run home in bright sunshine but 10 degrees cooler.

Ski-o long. We had 2 maps.
I was leapfrogging with Eddie Nosnhoj who started behind me.
I made a few dumb errors on map 1, including 2 that involved climbing back up and bushwhacking to avoid going backwards on a 1-way trail. At least I was all legal. Eddie got some time on me at the last error near the bottom of Murphy’s loop.

Map 2 I managed to navigate cleanly, and passed Eddie again with some good route choices. I leapfrogged Errol too. I learned from mistakes on the sprint and lap 1.
Ended up 50 seconds behind Eddie, (6th overall and first old guy), just ahead of Errol the young Mac ski racer and just under 10 min behind The Ryddler who won overall. Milla was second.

Hard racing on a gorgeous day. My knee didn’t thank me for all the offset climbing, but still a great day.

C • Error on the hill 3