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Saturday Nov 24, 2012 #
9 AM
XC Skiing - Classic 1:40:00 9.45 km (5.7 kph) +122m
We went to Sovereign Lake today - one of my favourite XC ski centres in fantastic snowy conditions. This pic is from Silverstar before we left in the morning.
We worked with Coaches Sandy and Denis this morning. First up, a drill! Weight transfer and arm movement while classic skiing with no poles - for quite awhile, including a trail loop with small hills to negotiate. Then add poles - close to chest in front and flung way out behind during glide. Then some skiing along the trails and practising these concepts. Then double poling and finally kick double pole. This final skill was today's big lesson for me. I'm a self-taught classic skier who started in my mid-teens, but for some reason, I never taught myself the kick double pole. As a result, there were some awkward, fish-out-of-water moments today! But I can see how it will be helpful so I kept plugging away at it.
Rich, C-Bass, Carbon's Offset, Carbon.
Elapsed time 2 hrs 11 min. Some time deducted for instruction stops.
They've set up two Norco spin bikes at Silverstar for ski clinic attendees. Naturally, the Carbons had to give it a whirl.
We worked with Coaches Sandy and Denis this morning. First up, a drill! Weight transfer and arm movement while classic skiing with no poles - for quite awhile, including a trail loop with small hills to negotiate. Then add poles - close to chest in front and flung way out behind during glide. Then some skiing along the trails and practising these concepts. Then double poling and finally kick double pole. This final skill was today's big lesson for me. I'm a self-taught classic skier who started in my mid-teens, but for some reason, I never taught myself the kick double pole. As a result, there were some awkward, fish-out-of-water moments today! But I can see how it will be helpful so I kept plugging away at it.
Rich, C-Bass, Carbon's Offset, Carbon.
Elapsed time 2 hrs 11 min. Some time deducted for instruction stops.
They've set up two Norco spin bikes at Silverstar for ski clinic attendees. Naturally, the Carbons had to give it a whirl.
1 PM
XC Skiing - Classic 1:15:00 8.98 km (7.2 kph) +112m
We skied around the beautiful Sovereign Lake trails with Denis and stopped occasionally to reinforce particular concepts. He is the 3rd coach I've worked with since yesterday, and it's great to get the same ideas explained or visualized in several different ways, some of which resonate with me more than others. We were all starting to get tired but wanted to keep practising until the last possible moment when the bus was getting ready to leave. It's just so fun to be on snow again.
Elapsed 1.5 hrs. Time deducted for stops - like this one.
Carbon's Offset snapped this pic from the bus window. We had spectacular mountain vistas in our 10-minute bus ride.
Elapsed 1.5 hrs. Time deducted for stops - like this one.
Carbon's Offset snapped this pic from the bus window. We had spectacular mountain vistas in our 10-minute bus ride.