Training Log Archive: kensr

Down with Ruthie and then on around the Town Hall and back. Used telephone poles for pickup targets. Felt good in nice spring conditions.

Earlier walked the ski trails checking snow. Upper trails all have excellent cover except for a 20' section in the sun below the porcupine caves. Shoveled some on that. Pines are also good except for the bump on the lower trail. South field is shot, but north field is okay. Could groom all this today, but it's soft corn snow right now. Wait until we get a dump on top tomorrow. Saving winter until the MD crowd comes up in 2 weeks.

Collected 5 gal sap today and ran it through the new RO system. Started with 2.4% sugar and ended up with 6.5%. The flow at the end was coming slowly, but at 9% sugar. The process eliminated 3-1/2 gal of boiling. Will boil the concentrate for the final step.

C • RO 4

Work today, no run. But did finish the RO system and gave it a test. Expected minor leaks fixed and ready to run sap (maybe) tomorrow.

Ruthie wanted to go for a run, so we headed out despite a cold drizzle. Fortunately kept it short, but still soaked by the rain and passing cars.

Late night last night, actually no night, as I started video recording a changeover at midnight and finished with a drive home at dawn. But did score a pile of ice cream pints.

Quick strength session

Stretching
Incline crunches 15
Pullups w/extra 25# 7
Abs/adductors x 15
Shoulder press machine 40#
Ski erg 2 x 500m, 2:04.2, tempo @ 60

Checking out skis for 6F. Turns out cold wax wasn't so good and I went with HF6 blue for 20ish temps. Good thing as bright spring sun quickly warmed everything up.

Skate race on good snow. Wax worked well. Last week at 6500' helped the wind on the hills. Satisfied with the race, but always need to work on recovering power and bounce.

Cooling down after race, and then more after lunch. By then the temp was pushing 40F, but the HF6 was still running okay on the fresh snowpack. Really nice spring skiing.

Late night, early morning, long day. But good to be back home and see snow here, too.

Also getting in the major components -- pump, housings, RO membranes -- for my sap reverse osmosis concentration system. Now need to pick up a prefilter, tubing and fittings and away we go.