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Saturday Jan 31, 2015 #
10 AM
Ski-O race 1:24:00 [3] 6.0 mi (14:00 / mi) +30m 13:47 / mi
38c
Lumping all the Ski-O courses together. A good time out at Aims and Terry's house in the woods, and pretty fun courses. Windy and cold! I didn't do that well on the first loop but got the hang of the mostly double pole. Made a couple of mistakes—some of them because the map wasn't really a ski-o map. Alex and I played find-the-trail to one of the controls, and then the best route was across the lake. But we got close to 90 minutes of training, which was good, and avoided long drives or open windswept areas.
3 PM
Run 35:01 [1] 3.9 mi (8:59 / mi)
It was really beautiful out, so I went for a run with my phone. Took some pictures off the BU Bridge, and then I got to the Boston side, and there were ski tracks along the edge of the river, so I walked out on the ice. Then I decided to run to Cambridge. And made it! And made it back, too. Quite the rush. Some more great photos off the Harvard Bridge and a jog home.
Friday Jan 30, 2015 #
9 PM
Ski 38:36 [1] 5.6 mi (6:54 / mi) +90m 6:34 / mi
And then there was the late ski today! Need to get started earlier, but it's dark at Weston at 6, so whatever.
Thursday Jan 29, 2015 #
8 PM
Ski 1:04:01 [1] 9.3 mi (6:53 / mi) +120m 6:37 / mi
Got out of work wicked late because of traffic-pocalypse. Traffic-pocalypse also meant that I wasn't about to go to Great Brook. So an hour at Weston it is, but at least there's no more snowmaking (nature made plenty) and nice conditions.
Wednesday Jan 28, 2015 #
8 PM
Ski 56:09 [1] 6.2 mi (9:03 / mi) +90m 8:40 / mi
Went out and skittered around Weston after work. No traffic. Soft, but yay snow! Although they aren't grooming the Goat track, which is really annoying because it's DCR bureaucracy. It would be nice if we could get them to run a sled around and make a narrow trail maze.
Tuesday Jan 27, 2015 #
12 AM
Bicycle 42:50 [1] 5.8 mi (7:23 / mi)
It was ripping out, and I went out for a bike ride in it. Super-blizzardy out, but fun times biking. Only a bit of slip-sliding.
10 AM
Ski 1:20:00 [1] 6.6 mi (12:07 / mi) +90m 11:38 / mi
Went skiing in the morning. Decent but not great street skiing, mainly because it was never warm so the streets never froze and got a good base. Not bad, but then I broke a tip and had to skitter my way home. Snowing pretty good all day, though.
6 PM
Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] 7.0 mi (8:34 / mi)
Had to figure out if we could run buses on Wednesday. Sounds like a great time to go out and recon the route on a bike. Still ripping out, but no traffic. Yay snow biking!
Sunday Jan 25, 2015 #
Ski long 2:53:54 [1] 22.6 mi (7:42 / mi) +736m 6:59 / mi
Woke up at the OH and it the trail by 9:30. Snowing when I woke up, colder and windy by the time I went skiing but sunny. Skied out the Ellis which was scratchy with some powder on top but untrod, which was nice. Then up the Hall, ate candy and drank water, and up the Maple to get ready to come down. Pretty easy the whole way. Easy workouts easy, right? Right at the bottom I saw Lincoln, Jess and Peter, and they said "want to do it again?" Well, no, but I do want to hang out with you guys, so yes. A little more than planned, but what's wrong with that?!
Skied it again, knew the bumps coming down, almost killed a guy coming up the Maple (I mean, I was in control, it wasn't that close, and dude wasn't looking up) and then down down down to town, bonking on the way in. Legs completely shot.
Yes, I had a mocha for the drive home. Caffeine!
Skied it again, knew the bumps coming down, almost killed a guy coming up the Maple (I mean, I was in control, it wasn't that close, and dude wasn't looking up) and then down down down to town, bonking on the way in. Legs completely shot.
Yes, I had a mocha for the drive home. Caffeine!
Saturday Jan 24, 2015 #
9 AM
Ski race (Classic) 1:14:01 [3] 13.1 mi (5:39 / mi) +286m 5:17 / mi
Up to Jackson for the Jackson 30k. Which is actually 21k. Which effed up their registration so I had to whine at Colin on Twitter to get it changed (easier than whining at Jackson): his response was something like "damn noobs." Anyway, rolled in to the OH, leisurely morning, bib pick up from Schroeder, talked with her about the OH for a while, and then realized the race started at 9:30, not 10.
Then my blow torch was broken.
I borrowed Andy's torch, put some klister on my skis, didn't cover it, didn't test it, and rolled in to the back of the start pen with maybe a minute to go.
Great.
The race was ho hum. I had no kick (klister iced; cover would have been good) and while I usually lose time on the flats in this race, today I lost on the hills because I couldn't kick. Not quite ice klistery enough. Plus I thought there might be three laps because that would actually make it 30k, but there were only two, because, yeah, $65 for a 20k.
I skied up Yodel with Alex and then lost her in the hills, and then basically skied alone. Up the last climb by the Eagle Mountain House I saw some people behind me and let them catch up because I wanted to make sure there were two laps.
Then down the Yodel, but with no kick I could out-double pole the people behind me. Hooray?
Then I saw Alex and gave her goldfish for winning and I think she was happier about that than the actual prize.
Then my blow torch was broken.
I borrowed Andy's torch, put some klister on my skis, didn't cover it, didn't test it, and rolled in to the back of the start pen with maybe a minute to go.
Great.
The race was ho hum. I had no kick (klister iced; cover would have been good) and while I usually lose time on the flats in this race, today I lost on the hills because I couldn't kick. Not quite ice klistery enough. Plus I thought there might be three laps because that would actually make it 30k, but there were only two, because, yeah, $65 for a 20k.
I skied up Yodel with Alex and then lost her in the hills, and then basically skied alone. Up the last climb by the Eagle Mountain House I saw some people behind me and let them catch up because I wanted to make sure there were two laps.
Then down the Yodel, but with no kick I could out-double pole the people behind me. Hooray?
Then I saw Alex and gave her goldfish for winning and I think she was happier about that than the actual prize.
Ski warm up/down 6:25 [1] 0.8 mi (8:01 / mi)
Cool down around the field.
Run 13:33 [1] 1.4 mi (9:41 / mi)
Second cool down around the village loop. Wow, it's actually 2k. Running this time.
2 PM
Trail Run hills 1:15:00 [3] 3.5 mi (21:26 / mi) +1073m 10:58 / mi
Then things got interesting. I messaged Beo and said "hey have you gone for your hut check yet" and during lunch he said "we're leaving now, you'll catch us." I finished lunch and said goodbye to the people driving south in to a snowstorm and blasted up the Notch. Hit Appalachia around 1:35, but a search for my microspikes took 15 minutes and I didn't hit the trail until 1:50.
But it was great running. I was kind of beat from the morning, but running up a trail seemed more fun than a little scratchy skiing. Took poles along and had pretty good pole planting and footing most of the way up the trail. It started snowing moderately, and I ascertained that I was gaining on the croo going up for the hut check by asking people "hey have you seen a guy with a huge beard and how far up is he" and getting answers like "yup, and a better looking woman!" Okay then.
The hut check is some thing where the AMC agreed about 20 years ago with the Forest Service to have huts "staffed" on weekends high up to steward the trails on busy days. It turns out that having people sit in a closed-and-shuttered hut doesn't work, nor does having them sit out side (froze to death). So they fulfill the obligation by having winter caretakers hike up and basically check that the hut is still there. IOW: they get paid 8 hours to go hiking.
It was a gorgeous day; the snow broke just as I got to the hut, 6 minutes off of my PR despite the morning race and softer snow up top. No rocks! Went in the hut, and then Beo said "hey lets go up Madison." Yes, let's! Views up top were amazing: snowy and dark to the south, 100 mile visibility to the north and west. Jesusphone took great panoramas. Then we went down, and my legs are shot.
But it was great running. I was kind of beat from the morning, but running up a trail seemed more fun than a little scratchy skiing. Took poles along and had pretty good pole planting and footing most of the way up the trail. It started snowing moderately, and I ascertained that I was gaining on the croo going up for the hut check by asking people "hey have you seen a guy with a huge beard and how far up is he" and getting answers like "yup, and a better looking woman!" Okay then.
The hut check is some thing where the AMC agreed about 20 years ago with the Forest Service to have huts "staffed" on weekends high up to steward the trails on busy days. It turns out that having people sit in a closed-and-shuttered hut doesn't work, nor does having them sit out side (froze to death). So they fulfill the obligation by having winter caretakers hike up and basically check that the hut is still there. IOW: they get paid 8 hours to go hiking.
It was a gorgeous day; the snow broke just as I got to the hut, 6 minutes off of my PR despite the morning race and softer snow up top. No rocks! Went in the hut, and then Beo said "hey lets go up Madison." Yes, let's! Views up top were amazing: snowy and dark to the south, 100 mile visibility to the north and west. Jesusphone took great panoramas. Then we went down, and my legs are shot.
Trail Run 1:25:00 [1] 4.5 mi (18:53 / mi) +180m 16:48 / mi
Hike up Madison, stop at the top, hike down nice and easy. Then go to Saalt for beer and food. Then to Admin for a shower (!) and the OH for sleepytime. Threw wood on the fire and it was still warm, so the OH was 50 when I went to bed and 50 when I woke up. Gotta love cast iron wood stoves!
Thursday Jan 22, 2015 #
8 PM
Ski 41:38 [1] 6.6 mi (6:18 / mi) +90m 6:03 / mi
Late night to Weston, after dinner and such at home. Skied a lap with Cary and then round and round, easy.
Wednesday Jan 21, 2015 #
6 AM
Run hills 33:00 [3] 1.8 mi (18:20 / mi) +581m 9:09 / mi
41 sections in 33 minutes. Not bad, especially 11 hours after going hard at Worlds. If it snows, it will be a damn good excuse to sleep in and not destroy myself like this anymore.
Tuesday Jan 20, 2015 #
6 PM
Ski warm up/down 20:09 [1] 3.4 mi (5:56 / mi) +50m 5:40 / mi
Three laps around, warming up. Yesterday my legs felt fine, today they are feeling the weekend.
Ski race 13:38 [4] 3.4 mi (4:01 / mi) +50m 3:50 / mi
Worlds. Lots of company at the ski track today. Luckily I didn't get caught in the Alex/Andy crash (that Andy went and yelled at Cary about for a while) but it did drop me off the lead pack. There was a chase group that was pretty strung out, and Maddy passed me as well. I stuck behind her, and then on the third lap Drew came shooting by on a downhill. Cheating, waxing his skis this year (I really have to wax my skis, actually).
I gave chase up the next hill and held on. Maybe waxing your skis matters? Also, it was softer and more pliable than I'd guessed; decent grooming. New course is nice, although the turn in the driving range is tricky, as is the U-turn in towards the finish.
I gave chase up the next hill and held on. Maybe waxing your skis matters? Also, it was softer and more pliable than I'd guessed; decent grooming. New course is nice, although the turn in the driving range is tricky, as is the U-turn in towards the finish.
Ski warm up/down 34:43 [1] 5.7 mi (6:05 / mi) +75m 5:51 / mi
Skiing around with various folks post-race. A bit slower, too, especially once the other race started coming through. Then chili!
Monday Jan 19, 2015 #
6 AM
Run warm up/down 34:10 [1] 4.3 mi (7:57 / mi) +20m 7:50 / mi
Long run to NP. Would not have gone this early but they gave me a stick and I had to give it back. Pretty even 8s the whole way, and fun to run through downtown early in the morning.
November Project 16:00 [1] 0.5 mi (31:59 / mi)
A very silly November Project of grapevine-ish sidesteps, hip raise-ish things, bench dips (I LOVE BENCH DIPS, at least in theory) and wall sits. During the wall sits you had to try to beat someone in rock paper scissors, best two out of three. I had some very long wall sits.
Then I lay on wet grass, and it was cold, and I went right to the Silver Line and took the T home. Not running 8 miles the morning after an 86k ski weekend. But I feel surprisingly good after the Weekend Warrior Master Weekend of Volume (WWMWV).
Then I lay on wet grass, and it was cold, and I went right to the Silver Line and took the T home. Not running 8 miles the morning after an 86k ski weekend. But I feel surprisingly good after the Weekend Warrior Master Weekend of Volume (WWMWV).
Sunday Jan 18, 2015 #
9 AM
Ski long 2:31:19 [1] 20.3 mi (7:27 / mi) +604m 6:49 / mi
It was a bit warmer today—around 20—and cloudy, but good skiing. We skied out the Ellis, quite a bit of DPing, and then came back to ski the Hall. Felt slow on the outbound, but better on the way back in. Jess Peeled off at the top of the Hall connector, and I skied to the top. The rain, yes, rain, started at the top, but it was very freezing rain; probably still in the low 20s. Coated my glasses in seconds, and poles got a lot of extra swing weight. It was pretty fast going down, and I skied back to the center as the rain/sleet/snow picked up.
1 PM
Ski 36:07 [1] 5.4 mi (6:41 / mi) +173m 6:05 / mi
So apparently the roads were bad but the temperature was rising, but not fast enough. The trails were fast and empty. Why not ski another few kilometers? Came back covered in ice, with quite a bit on my glasses (useless) and poles again. But the roads went to slush and water, and I made it home.
Saturday Jan 17, 2015 #
10 AM
Ski long 1:30:00 [1] 7.5 mi (12:00 / mi) +372m 10:24 / mi
Up to NH Friday night after traffic, worked well! It was very cold and thank goodness someone else had the OH nice and warm, up in to the 40s. We slept in the back room where it was colder, in the water-bottle-froze temperature. Took us some time to rouse in the morning (0˚ bag in 20˚ bag was more than enough), and then we decided 3˚ was good classic weather, and headed to East Pasture.
It was groomed. But had about an inch of snow on top. We went counter-clockwise; I usually go clockwise but the hills are more stride-able. We skied slowly and warmed up (overdressed) and de-layered. A while to the top, and the only two other skiers we saw we knew. When we were in the sun it was hot, when not, it was cold. And going downhill, that was cold.
Then we skied the biathlon range, and talked to Wayne for a while. Warm in the sun, again.
It was groomed. But had about an inch of snow on top. We went counter-clockwise; I usually go clockwise but the hills are more stride-able. We skied slowly and warmed up (overdressed) and de-layered. A while to the top, and the only two other skiers we saw we knew. When we were in the sun it was hot, when not, it was cold. And going downhill, that was cold.
Then we skied the biathlon range, and talked to Wayne for a while. Warm in the sun, again.
2 PM
Ski long 1:52:50 [1] 13.8 mi (8:11 / mi) +434m 7:27 / mi
Then we ate lunch, and then we skied the Hall Trail. It was still cold, but we were prepared. Jess helped me learn to stuff my down parka, which was good times. We skied up the Hall with only a couple layers on, then layered up at the top for the trip down. Skating, more recent grooming, a little warmer, a little faster. But we both felt tired, especially after my unintentional intensity module this past week.
5 PM
Ski 27:56 [1] 2.7 mi (10:21 / mi) +162m 8:43 / mi
After some hemming and hawing, we decided to ski to the Shovel Handle. Only 500 vertical feet up, and about 5k away. Totally worth it for beer and nachos. And awesome night skiing.
Ski 29:57 [1] 3.9 mi (7:41 / mi) +30m 7:30 / mi
And then we skied down. With a little extra skiing. Buzzed skiing in the dark is awesome skiing.
Friday Jan 16, 2015 #
6 AM
Bicycle warm up/down 14:05 [1] 2.6 mi (5:25 / mi) +86m 4:55 / mi
Bike to NP. Watch was GPSed, so I started it. Chilly, a little snow on the roads, but not bad.
Run hills 43:01 [3] 5.4 mi (7:58 / mi) +341m 6:40 / mi
Great day on the hills in Brookline. I felt pretty ducky going out and ran behind Kristen and Shira down the hill, then past them on the way up. I'd trade downs and ups with Shira the rest of the way, but luckily the whole gambit ends on an uphill. Hooray! Some guy mumbled something about "injury deck" on the last uphill and then I had to race him and won, even though he hadn't actually done four hills. Took it somewhat easy on the downhills because the sidewalks were slippery but I wanted to stay on them (wore trail runners with decent tread for just that reason). Finished strong.
Only time I've done four hills faster was in August when we did the hardest wind sprints ever up the hill and I almost puked and had to drop off pace after three of them. Just changed that retroactively to L4 because it certainly was.
Plus, I was carrying the Positivity Award. They let me keep it for the weekend. It's going skiing. A lot.
Only time I've done four hills faster was in August when we did the hardest wind sprints ever up the hill and I almost puked and had to drop off pace after three of them. Just changed that retroactively to L4 because it certainly was.
Plus, I was carrying the Positivity Award. They let me keep it for the weekend. It's going skiing. A lot.
Thursday Jan 15, 2015 #
7 AM
Ski 47:57 [1] 5.7 mi (8:25 / mi) +90m 8:01 / mi
Skiing around Weston and not snowmaking in the morning. Very slow, lots of ungroomed new snow made. Yay, new snow. Boo, no grooming (but understandable since they do have to make it). I forgot that Weston mornings are only really good once they stop making snow.
6 PM
Ice skating 12:00 [1] 1.0 mi (12:00 / mi)
More ice skating on the lake in the Public Garden. Yay!
Wednesday Jan 14, 2015 #
6 AM
Run hills (NNNPPP) 39:00 [2] 2.0 mi (19:30 / mi) +567m 10:22 / mi
Stairs after Worlds are hard. Like, wicked hard. I decided to go hard every third section and keep the rest as recovery, which felt good. I got to go hard some, but kept my heart rate from staying too high too long.
Then for the #GroupPhoto I saw a guy with Toko pants on and talked about skiing (he skied for Midd) and about how he has to come to Weston so there can be more people for me to lose to, or whatever. And then we were chatting about skiing and they were chattering up front and someone said my name and I didn't really notice.
There's this thing at November Project called the Positivity Award. You win it by means of them giving it to you. I've gone for 2 years 7 months and however many days, and I've done things like buy coffee for the people who woke up at 4 am to staff kayak rentals for us (for free) or suggest maybe shoveling out everyone's house on Summit Ave after a blizzard and such, and I'm pretty sure that everyone else who's been around as long as I have has won it at least once. So I wasn't bitter, but a friend and I decided that I was winner and still champion of the Negativity Award (which is more becoming for me, anyway) and that I was happy with that. Also, if anyone found out that I'd never won the award their usual reaction was "really?"
Anyway, apparently I won it on Wednesday. They usually give some speech and I've stopped listening because it's usually "this person comes all the time, yada yada yada " and then they give it to some Johnny-come-lately who started coming in October. So I thought I heard my name and looked around and no one else was running down the stairs so I went down and gave people hugs and such. So, yeah, I guess it's nice to win the thing finally? Annnnnd that's why I get the Negativity Award.
(Okay, so it's kind of fun, and a lot of pictures have been taken and Tweeted.)
Then for the #GroupPhoto I saw a guy with Toko pants on and talked about skiing (he skied for Midd) and about how he has to come to Weston so there can be more people for me to lose to, or whatever. And then we were chatting about skiing and they were chattering up front and someone said my name and I didn't really notice.
There's this thing at November Project called the Positivity Award. You win it by means of them giving it to you. I've gone for 2 years 7 months and however many days, and I've done things like buy coffee for the people who woke up at 4 am to staff kayak rentals for us (for free) or suggest maybe shoveling out everyone's house on Summit Ave after a blizzard and such, and I'm pretty sure that everyone else who's been around as long as I have has won it at least once. So I wasn't bitter, but a friend and I decided that I was winner and still champion of the Negativity Award (which is more becoming for me, anyway) and that I was happy with that. Also, if anyone found out that I'd never won the award their usual reaction was "really?"
Anyway, apparently I won it on Wednesday. They usually give some speech and I've stopped listening because it's usually "this person comes all the time, yada yada yada " and then they give it to some Johnny-come-lately who started coming in October. So I thought I heard my name and looked around and no one else was running down the stairs so I went down and gave people hugs and such. So, yeah, I guess it's nice to win the thing finally? Annnnnd that's why I get the Negativity Award.
(Okay, so it's kind of fun, and a lot of pictures have been taken and Tweeted.)
8 PM
Ski warm up/down 45:16 [1] 6.3 mi (7:11 / mi) +90m 6:53 / mi
Late evening, after meeting, to Weston. Pretty good skiing, but some wicked soft manmade. Had to get off half the snowmaking area when the lines came out had to go around, but got my intervals in before that. 4X4 (logged separatewise).
Ski intervals 16:00 [3] 2.8 mi (5:43 / mi) +40m 5:28 / mi
Much slower than last night: slower skis, slower snow. Decent intervals, didn't feel that jumpy, but 24 hours after a race and an NP.
Tuesday Jan 13, 2015 #
6 PM
Ski warm up/down 52:27 [1] 5.6 mi (9:22 / mi) +50m 9:07 / mi
Warm up, warm down, teach lesson, etc.
Ski race 13:30 [3] 3.4 mi (3:58 / mi) +45m 3:49 / mi
Fun times at Weston. It was pretty hard except for one super soft snowmaking hill. Skittery and sketchy. I held on to the lead group for about a lap but forgot that it's always worth burning matches to stay in the draft and dropped off. Then I was in No Man's Land for more than a lap, which sucked. Then Alex caught me and I skied with her for a while, got some draft, and then went out and won that group. Goal for next week, don't get dropped off the lead pack.
Course is nice this year; not as many sketchy corners, although no steep hills. But it is Weston.
For elevation at Weston, I'm going with 10m/km, or 15m/mile.
Course is nice this year; not as many sketchy corners, although no steep hills. But it is Weston.
For elevation at Weston, I'm going with 10m/km, or 15m/mile.
Monday Jan 12, 2015 #
6 AM
Run warm up/down 17:00 [1] 2.0 mi (8:30 / mi)
Run to Nov Project, after carving NOV3MB3R PROJ3CT in to the lake in the Public Garden last night. Not enough sleep.
November Project 15:00 [1] 0.5 mi (29:59 / mi)
Run around, get tagged, do squats, then do burpies. Not that I did any arms this weekend. Felt sort of okay.
Sunday Jan 11, 2015 #
10 AM
Ski-O race 25:00 [2] 2.5 mi (10:00 / mi) +70m 9:12 / mi
Skiing around and around and around and around the house, and then the course. Fun! Narrow trails are fun, kind of hard. No elevation, but a taste of Euro-O.
11 AM
Ski-O race 30:51 [2] 3.3 mi (9:21 / mi) +90m 8:37 / mi
The second, race, similar to the first. Minor mistakes again.
1 PM
Ski-O race 49:54 [2] 4.5 mi (11:05 / mi) +50m 10:43 / mi
Third course, feeling a little more confident in the woods, then skiing around to random points with Stina and Alex, then driving home.
Saturday Jan 10, 2015 #
1 PM
Run warm up/down 5:30 [1] 0.7 mi (7:51 / mi) +10m 7:31 / mi
Spent half an hour looking for blowtorch. Drove up to NH, had to pee the whole way. Got there with 28 minutes to my start, having to warm up, put on boots and wax. Blowtorched klister, let it freeze (out of the sun), corked in some blueish wax, tested it (skiing maybe 50m), stripped off clothes, started.
Ski race (Classic) 50:21 [3] 7.4 mi (6:48 / mi) +200m 6:17 / mi
Good fun at Bogburn. Surprisingly good conditions, and happy they took out the first nasty curves. I passed the guy in front of me and promptly fell on a super sketchy curve ahead of him, then passed some people and got passed by some people.
Didn't have a really good race like last year, felt flaily, but I've only classic skied maybe 5k this year so far. Then with 500m left I broke a pole, but not the one with the broken strap. Maybe time for new back-up poles?
Didn't have a really good race like last year, felt flaily, but I've only classic skied maybe 5k this year so far. Then with 500m left I broke a pole, but not the one with the broken strap. Maybe time for new back-up poles?
Ski warm up/down 26:22 [1] 2.9 mi (9:06 / mi) +65m 8:30 / mi
Nice cool down, would have liked to ski a bit more but we had to get going to Andy's cabin.
4 PM
Hiking 19:43 [1] 0.7 mi (28:09 / mi) +70m 21:29 / mi
Really nice walk to Andy et al's cabin. A little crusty, but still light, more than warm enough going uphill, and enough uphill to log. Great country, would love to see some O/trails. Then missed the Pats game because there was no service. None.
Friday Jan 9, 2015 #
6 AM
Run hills 37:39 [1] 4.1 mi (9:11 / mi) +250m 7:43 / mi
Didn't feel great going up on the hills this morning. I ran/bounded the bottoms of the hills, and then went easier up top. Also, I didn't want to kill myself before the weekend.
Bicycle 38:52 [1] 6.1 mi (6:22 / mi)
Shot down the hill, turned on Garmin, and went for a little bike ride. I wanted to check out the iciness/skatability of the lake in the Public Garden. Verdict: very icy (4", probably, at least) and very skatable, even with a dusting of snow that it now has. I biked around the lake a bit (because why not, so much fun, lots of wheelspin trying to start from a stop though without studs) and then walked Charles Street to the Longfellow to get a Strava segment (turns out it already exists). 109 people have logged that the wrong way on Strava, in fact!
6 PM
Ice skating 13:46 [1] 1.4 mi (9:50 / mi)
New activity type! Turned on Strava to skate around the Public Garden and was glad I did. It's hard work. New skates I found on the street work great. No one else was out!
Thursday Jan 8, 2015 #
7 PM
Ski (Mostly Double Pole) 43:04 [2] 6.2 mi (6:57 / mi) +100m 6:37 / mi
More mostly double poling! Many fewer people, better snow, even some tracks. I listened to a podcast the whole time which made it much more bearable. Every so often I started laughing (Bill Simmons making fun of the hall of fame voting is very funny #sportsball) but at least there was no one there to see me. More snow, too!
Then I got in my car, got on the Pike, set cruise at 60, passed one person at 62, made all the lights getting off of the Pike (as best you can, anyway) and got to my house in 13 minutes. This is a new record, and one that may never be broken unless I drive 90 on the Pike, which is probably not going to happen. Too bad there isn't a train track that goes from my house in Cambridgeport to Weston. Oh, there is, but Tim Toomey won't let trains run on it carrying people because cars are better for Cambridge, anyway.
Then I got in my car, got on the Pike, set cruise at 60, passed one person at 62, made all the lights getting off of the Pike (as best you can, anyway) and got to my house in 13 minutes. This is a new record, and one that may never be broken unless I drive 90 on the Pike, which is probably not going to happen. Too bad there isn't a train track that goes from my house in Cambridgeport to Weston. Oh, there is, but Tim Toomey won't let trains run on it carrying people because cars are better for Cambridge, anyway.
Wednesday Jan 7, 2015 #
6 AM
Run hills 43:00 [2] 2.5 mi (17:12 / mi) +709m 9:09 / mi
Off to the Stadium! About 15º, so t-shirt weather, albeit with long sleeves. And a buff. And gloves. 50 sections and about 40 push ups all told. I started well but slowed down some, #DeathCold2015 still kicking in every now and then. But mostly felt good, so that's good.
Run warm up/down 22:00 [1] 2.8 mi (7:51 / mi)
Run to NP, run home from NP. When it's below about 20, I get really very chilled if I try biking home as my core temperature is dropping after NP. So I wake up two minutes earlier and run there (on Wednesdays; on Fridays I have to wake up a lot earlier to catch a bus and make a transfer, so I bike and get cold).
7 PM
Ski (Mostly Double Pole) 45:42 [2] 6.4 mi (7:08 / mi) +100m 6:49 / mi
Strava/My Garmin detect ~0 climb at Weston. Yet they show an elevation differential of 16 feet per lap, or 10m each lap. So I'll put that in, because the double poling is certainly up hills. Skiing the race lap; one section with mondo death cookies, but mostly okay. Lots of EMBKers to DP up hills past.
Tuesday Jan 6, 2015 #
Note
Last vestiges of #DeathCold2015. I stopped sleeping 11 hours a day, and the cough is diminishing. Good to log colds, helps me remember that really what i need to do is prioritize sleep over everything else.
Monday Jan 5, 2015 #
6 PM
Run tempo 43:59 [2] 5.5 mi (8:00 / mi) +10m 7:57 / mi
Garmin is randomly taking several minutes to start up. I waited today because, well I don't really know, then ran with the wind down the Esplanade. Nice 6:20 miles there, and then I turned in to the wind and oh gosh, 9 minute miles the rest of the way home, trying not to get blown over. At least it's a cold wind, meaning snow!
Sunday Jan 4, 2015 #
6 PM
Run 27:00 [1] 3.5 mi (7:43 / mi) +10m 7:39 / mi
#deathcold2015 recovery continues. Tea, honey, lemon, NyQuil and lots and lots of sleep. Lots to do today, so a short run in the evening. Same loop as Thursday, went at the same perceived pace (easy), and ran about 45 seconds a mile faster. Guess I'm getting better.
Saturday Jan 3, 2015 #
Note
Almost ruined my recovery from #DeathCold2015 with a bike ride. Biked to Brookline to have a beer and burger, and the way there was in a snowstorm, so I arrived dry and happy. While there it changed to rain, and I biked home in heavy rain and slush. 35º. It was TERRIBLE. Next time I'll take the T (I would have, but no bikes on the Green Line, grr). My core was fine (fleece+rain jacket) but my legs were SO COLD (jeans+rain+ice). I went to the bathroom, stripped off the wet and stood in the shower for a while.
10 AM
Ski warm up/down 8:48 [1] 1.3 mi (6:46 / mi) +20m 6:28 / mi
Round and round and round and round to warm up.
Ski-O race 53:15 [3] 8.4 mi (6:20 / mi) +228m 5:51 / mi
spiked:4/11c
This race, by the splits, went how cold training has gone recently: decent at the start, then slower. I started off relatively well to 1, 2 and 3, passing Alex coming back and making good route choices and doing a good job with punching. I started skiing up the hill looking for the woods run to 4 and didn't see it, and by the time I saw Ken going back down looking for it I decided that I didn't want to go look for a path in the woods and that I wanted to ski and just kept going. Certainly lost a couple of minutes; he wound up a bit ahead of me going to the control, but so it goes. I got to ski up a hill.
Passed Ken going in to 4, fun awkward skate on a ridge rather than in a depression. Took a good route around the reentrant but kept going downhill by the road, then through the cornfield (fun!) to 5. I started straight down the field and then jogged over back to the trail, the "safe" choice, and when I got there realized that going up and around and coming down the adjacent fields would have been better/more fun. Oh, well.
My cold-addled head was angry by now and I slowed down and concentrated as much as I could on the O, and that was decent, but I had very little oomph. There were also a lot of people skiing there, and I missed a route choice to get to 9, then took a weird jog to 10, and then a good run to 11. Lost a few more seconds, but nothing major. Good to not lose contact, at least.
Passed Ken going in to 4, fun awkward skate on a ridge rather than in a depression. Took a good route around the reentrant but kept going downhill by the road, then through the cornfield (fun!) to 5. I started straight down the field and then jogged over back to the trail, the "safe" choice, and when I got there realized that going up and around and coming down the adjacent fields would have been better/more fun. Oh, well.
My cold-addled head was angry by now and I slowed down and concentrated as much as I could on the O, and that was decent, but I had very little oomph. There were also a lot of people skiing there, and I missed a route choice to get to 9, then took a weird jog to 10, and then a good run to 11. Lost a few more seconds, but nothing major. Good to not lose contact, at least.
1 PM
Ski-O 41:29 [1] 5.0 mi (8:18 / mi) +129m 7:41 / mi
Route choice exercise with Alex once I'd warmed up and dried off. This was fun! We had some fun discussions of how we should go through the woods (in one case, running through the woods was good, in another, someone hurt their thumb). Good fun.
Friday Jan 2, 2015 #
3 PM
Ski hills 1:12:57 [1] 10.0 mi (7:18 / mi) +430m 6:26 / mi
Slept 11 hours on Thursday night and woke up feeling better-ish on Friday. My dad and I left Boston around 1 once the carmageddon carpocalypse on 93N had cleared and the road reopened. A couple new inches of snow on Tripoli slowed it down somewhat, and I had two nice trips up and down at a relatively leisurely pace. Feeling a lot better than the day before, but still fighting off #deathcold2015
Thursday Jan 1, 2015 #
Note
Ugh. Knocked on my bottom. Four days now of thinking about going for a run and deciding against it. But I might this afternoon. Slept 11 hours last night after knocking myself out with NyQuil. Damn does that stuff work.
Run 30:00 [1] 3.5 mi (8:34 / mi)
Easy loop around the river. Tried to stay warm and maybe make the stupid thing in my head and throat go away (Alex says hers is a monster; mine is just annoying). The first mile felt great. After that it felt okay. I think it will be another NyQuil-induced coma tonight.