Training Log Archive: bigginsIn the 7 days ending Apr 23, 2011:
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Saturday Apr 23, 2011 #
ski-o! 55:19 *** 7.83 km (7:04 / km) +98m 6:39 / km
ahr:131 max:150 spiked:14/20c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
A pretty miserable day. It didn't really freeze last night, and we got a couple inches of new heavy wet snow. So the woods were slow and the groomed stuff wasn't much faster. Skipped a couple controls and missed a few more because all those rock features on this end of the map are under the snow, so there's not much to navigate by. quickroute.
skate ski 30:25 6.69 km (4:33 / km) +108m 4:12 / km
ahr:132 max:144 shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
skate ski 29:13 6.37 km (4:35 / km) +73m 4:20 / km
ahr:128 max:147 shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
Friday Apr 22, 2011 #
ski-o! 1:28:51 *** 17.79 km (5:00 / km) +345m 4:33 / km
ahr:144 max:162 spiked:17/22c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
This is why Tahoe is awesome. A hard freeze last night, so down to Tahoe City for the Blue Long course from the meet in September. Now astute readers may notice that even up here, September is considered a "summer" month, and as such this was actually a summer-o course. But the corn snow was rock solid, and there's still full snow coverage (and 6' of it) everywhere except the creeks.
This was actually really hard. I know where the groomed trails go on the close section of the map, but not the far end, and I didn't bother to overlay them on top of the summer map. And some jeep roads are groomed, others aren't, and most places the groomed trails just go randomly through the woods. Most of the navigation in the summer is by rocks or the three foot scrub vegetation patches, both of which are totally buried right now. Also I didn't have a compass today.
I totally blew it on the route to 4, finally figured it out on the big marsh, and skied back through it. I whiffed on 6 (buried) and 9 (buried), and collapsed a huge snow bridge on the creek to 10. Came up short on 11, thought I was high and past it in the field halfway to 12, so I doubled back but then found something that looked like that trail. Totally whiffed on 17, I found the only rock around there poking up through the snow, but apparently it was the wrong one.
quickroute.
All together, awesomeness.
skate ski 1:23:42 18.98 km (4:25 / km) +384m 4:00 / km
ahr:137 max:155 shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
Thursday Apr 21, 2011 #
dp ski 11:13 0.78 km (14:24 / km)
ahr:116 max:136 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
ski-o! 22:15 *** 2.13 km (10:27 / km) +4m 10:21 / km
ahr:121 max:138 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
ski-o! 17:02 *** 1.71 km (9:58 / km) +1m 9:56 / km
ahr:116 max:128 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
ski-o! 18:02 *** 1.9 km (9:30 / km) +3m 9:25 / km
ahr:114 max:124 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
ski-o! 16:06 *** 1.7 km (9:27 / km) +3m 9:22 / km
ahr:105 max:117 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Wednesday Apr 20, 2011 #
run 28:46 3.18 mi (9:03 / mi) +99m 8:15 / mi
ahr:143 max:158
Tuesday Apr 19, 2011 #
skate ski 55:31 10.7 km (5:11 / km) +288m 4:34 / km
ahr:133 max:153 shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
road bike 54:38 [3] 13.91 mi (15.3 mph) +352m
Sunday Apr 17, 2011 #
run warm up/down 11:09 1.36 km (8:11 / km) +107m 5:53 / km
ahr:129 max:139
orienteering race 2:31:14 * 14.1 km (10:44 / km) +537m 9:01 / km
ahr:142 max:162 spiked:29/31c
Sweet, 14 more km of side hills. I <3 BAOC terrain. My feet hurt a lot and had tons of blisters on the sides from yesterday, so even with a different pair of non-fitting shoes I was still jogging fairly daintily. The course was fairly uninspiring, in a "yay I get to contour again for half a km across a steep grassy hillside this leg" sort of way. A few mistakes today, or more likely hesitations, mostly cause I was tired and it was hot and I wasn't caring so much. qr
Also heard that the ski marathon on Saturday actually had really good conditions, and they changed the course so it wasn't so brutal on the hills (there's so much snow they couldn't groom under some of the powerlines), so the times were really fast. Oops. Looks like we picked the wrong sport for this weekend. It was still fun though, sort of.
Driving home started with the AC on full blast, then slowly turned down and down and off and then the heat was on and then the defroster and a solid windy whiteout snowstorm up the last hill to home. No chains needed though, or it would have been the full spectrum in one drive. Also sometime during the weekend the 8' x 8' x 15' pile of solid cornsnow on the roof outside my window slid, which must have been an awesome sound and probably scared the crap out of the people below, if it didn't also break all their windows. At least I'll have a view (and sunlight) from my desk again tomorrow, for the first time in four months.