Training Log Archive: biggins

And in the show-and-tell department of I-made-a-hardware:

TruckeeOC is getting SI stuff, so I spent a while looking around at all the options for how we want to run things, with software and hardware combinations, and they all suck. The pile of equipment (even the minimal, weak-by-Ed-standards, pile) you need just to code check somebody's si stick and print splits after a run is too much to bother for, especially if you only have a couple people there. Laptops are clunky, and the si printer station is weak sauce.

Thus a lot of googling, several hong kong chip orders later, and a bit of cursing at the soldering iron, I made a bluetooth ios master station. It does everything your boring wired master station did, but from the phone. Also its a phone with internet, so it has built in live web results. And it plays sad trombone when you mispunch.

C • Ghetto master station 23

Loop around all the trails left at TD. Pretty great for a last ski day, all the cover was just fine, and despite being 50 its a bit cloudy so it never slushed out and was plenty fast the whole time.

Mammoth Marathon. This one is usually hit or miss with the weather, because its so late in the season it can range from spring blizzard to perfect corn snow to super slushy. Haven't done it in a couple years because its been the bad two of those, but this year was one of the perfect ones. Snow was dangerously fast at the beginning, and only slushed out a little bit in a few places in the sun by the end. Back and forth with a few people the whole time, which was fun. The whole course is between 8500-9000 ft, which makes the uphills super fun. Almost all of it was on narrowish big trails (8 ft or so) that were winding through the woods, so it was super fun and not much of a grind at all.

C • nice race! 2