Training Log Archive: Bash

I was asked to be a guest coach for a Personal Best snowshoe instruction day. About 60 people came out. I was to start them off with a 20 minute lesson, then they would spin off to try different things with their snowshoes.

I'd been worried about filling 20 minutes since snowshoeing is fairly intuitive. But with some googling and a little creativity, I came up with a lesson plan that included segments on "what I'm wearing from head to toe" and "what's in my pack". Then we all practised how to use cleats properly going up and down hills and while running vs. walking. There wasn't much snow but Google said I should also explain how to get up when you fall, so I did a demo.

Then different groups did a couple of trails, some of us went up the Green Monster hill a few times, we tried more running and I led some bushwhacking. Many people seemed surprised and happy to discover how easy it was to learn and what a great workout it could be. I guess I take snowshoeing for granted and can't imagine that an athletic person wouldn't have tried it before or might worry that they don't know how. (There were lots of Ironmen in the crowd.) So it was cool to see all the enthusiasm.

Lots of fun and so nice to see people planning to get outside more in winter. Caledon Hills Cycling brought a bunch of demo snowshoes, which was great.

This was the running and hill interval portion of the morning.

Short on time before going to visit Mom so just a quick circuit. Yesterday's hills were strength training too!