Training Log Archive: Lori

Jogging from Riverside to Weston Ski Track. Apparently people in Newton don't clear sidewalks and there was an entire road that was basically a solid sheet of ice.

Classic skiing in the morning at Ski Like a Girl! It was fun to actually get some instruction from someone other than my dad, although as it turns out my dad's instructions were quite useful :-). I learned some things about body position and practiced a lot of gliding on one foot and double poling.

Skate skiing at Ski Like a Girl! with Alex instructing this time. Man, this was hard! I felt incredibly clumsy and awkward, but it definitely got better as the time went on (it would be hard to have gotten worse...) although I still don't feel graceful by any stretch of the imagination. It looks so easy when Alex does it :-). We learned V1, V2, and V2 alternate. I basically got V2 alternate. V1 I think I can do the rhythm for more or less, but since I can't manage to get up hills while still skating, it isn't all that useful at the moment... I was having trouble getting my arms forward quickly enough to do V2. Apparently there are these muscles in your arms called triceps :-).

At the end we did an ice cream making relay, where we had an ice cream making ball attached to one of our ankles, so we had to double pole. I was first for my team, and I was all set to go but sort of forgot that the ice cream ball was adding a lot of weight to one leg, so I took off...and fell flat on my back. I did manage to get back up and take back the lead for my team, though :-).

Cruciatus stretches and back extensions.

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