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Saturday Feb 23, 2013 #
Event: American Birkebeiner
xc classic skiing race 2:02:25 [4] +1972m
ahr:166 max:176
Kortie Classic....quick summary: not great... not bad. was hoping to be 4 or 5 minutes quicker. I have had enough years at the Kortie/Birkie to get a good sense of how I am doing by the flow of people around me and I could tell that I was having to work hard to gain an average result. Skiing out of Wave 2, I was really suprised how soft and broken down the course was already...the uphills on the shared Birkie trails were already herringboned out by Wave 1 and it got better once on the Kortie but still had sections that were softer than I would have expected.
My kick was good with one layer of toko red thrown at the start line over the Swix VR40 Blue layers as the temps were just a bit warmer than expected and I waxed cold based on Fast Wax recs with HF Green...if I had to do it all over again I would have gone with HF Tan to hopefullly get some really good glide. As it turned out the glide was ok.
I didnt really ski back and forth with anyone either. I hooked up on the back of a 3 person train for about 30 minutes and felt like I was going a bit better with this group but it all broke up at an aid station. felt Ok...not great as I felt I was working a bit to hard on the front half of the course (running abot 169-170) on the HR so I backed it off just a bit to make sure I did not fade at the end....I skied a very even race postions wise from start to finish. Had one really dumb fall when I switched tracks coming into the 2nd aid station on a down hill. I was thinking "this is dumb, I could fall doing this"...and I did....
Technique felt pretty good but the with the loose snow I wasnt able to skate step through the downhill turns with abandon like I like.
Kari skied a 2:15 (5th in age group) and really looked good coming into the finish. I thought to myself, I hope my technique looked as good climbing the last hill and striding the home stretch. First ski race we have actually been in together. She was happy it went as well as it has after limited training and a year with knee surgery on each knee and a major concussion and road rash face due to the mt bike accident.
Finish Time: 2:02:25.0
Overall Place: 193 out of 1042 in Kortelopet Classic.
Gender Overall Place: 127 out of 578 in Kortelopet Classic Men
Age Group Place: 17 out of 101 in Men 55 to 59
Overall Pace: 5:19 per K
My kick was good with one layer of toko red thrown at the start line over the Swix VR40 Blue layers as the temps were just a bit warmer than expected and I waxed cold based on Fast Wax recs with HF Green...if I had to do it all over again I would have gone with HF Tan to hopefullly get some really good glide. As it turned out the glide was ok.
I didnt really ski back and forth with anyone either. I hooked up on the back of a 3 person train for about 30 minutes and felt like I was going a bit better with this group but it all broke up at an aid station. felt Ok...not great as I felt I was working a bit to hard on the front half of the course (running abot 169-170) on the HR so I backed it off just a bit to make sure I did not fade at the end....I skied a very even race postions wise from start to finish. Had one really dumb fall when I switched tracks coming into the 2nd aid station on a down hill. I was thinking "this is dumb, I could fall doing this"...and I did....
Technique felt pretty good but the with the loose snow I wasnt able to skate step through the downhill turns with abandon like I like.
Kari skied a 2:15 (5th in age group) and really looked good coming into the finish. I thought to myself, I hope my technique looked as good climbing the last hill and striding the home stretch. First ski race we have actually been in together. She was happy it went as well as it has after limited training and a year with knee surgery on each knee and a major concussion and road rash face due to the mt bike accident.
Finish Time: 2:02:25.0
Overall Place: 193 out of 1042 in Kortelopet Classic.
Gender Overall Place: 127 out of 578 in Kortelopet Classic Men
Age Group Place: 17 out of 101 in Men 55 to 59
Overall Pace: 5:19 per K
xc classic skiing 13:38 [3]
wax testing in front of telemark after getting off the bus....