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Sunday Dec 27, 2009 #
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It's official... Brittany Webster is our first Tree Hugger teammate to be selected for the Olympics! (Nordic skiing) Our new energy-efficient LED HDTV is arriving tomorrow, so we'll be ready to watch and cheer!
Friday Dec 25, 2009 #
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Merry Christmas! :-)
Wednesday Dec 23, 2009 #
XC Skiing - Classic 1:40:00 [2]
Woke up to big feathery snowflakes drifting down and 4-5 cm of fluffy new snow, so I decided to go skiing out our back door instead of driving somewhere. I detoured by Crash's house but nobody was home, then headed into Palgrave East for a tour of the trails - including the officially closed Red Trail along Hwy 50 (sshh!! don't tell anyone, but it makes a nice loop). Conditions weren't great in some places, and things got treacherous on some of the hills. Just below the fluffy snow was crusty, bumpy snow waiting to catch a ski tip. It was OK though - this is the kind of skiing I like best - narrow, ungroomed trails and occasional off-trail explorations through the bush. Light snow falling almost the entire time... nice!
XC Skiing - Skate 30:00 [3]
Whee! Double header today! I promised myself that if I got enough things done - and if there was still any light remaining - I would allow myself a short skate ski at Mono Nordic as part of a Christmas grocery trip. About half of today's ski was legs only, which I've been doing a lot of this year in an attempt to remind my left leg that it is invited to the party too. It keeps trying to wimp out and make my right leg do 80% of the work. Not good.
It's important that I feel comfortable on skate skis soon because the Canadian Ski Orienteering Champs are just one month away! So far there is only one other competitor in my category, but she is the course setter's wife, so I'll have to train extra hard. :-) I'll need to start practising with a map holder soon, since my current lack of coordination on skate skis could make that deadly. Some progress has been made... this was only level 3 intensity, which wouldn't have been possible a week ago. I still don't feel ready to skate ski with anyone else, but maybe in another week I'll be ready to chase my faster friends.
It's important that I feel comfortable on skate skis soon because the Canadian Ski Orienteering Champs are just one month away! So far there is only one other competitor in my category, but she is the course setter's wife, so I'll have to train extra hard. :-) I'll need to start practising with a map holder soon, since my current lack of coordination on skate skis could make that deadly. Some progress has been made... this was only level 3 intensity, which wouldn't have been possible a week ago. I still don't feel ready to skate ski with anyone else, but maybe in another week I'll be ready to chase my faster friends.
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Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! (No training tomorrow - or the next day.)
Monday Dec 21, 2009 #
XC Skiing - Skate 1:00:00 [4]
So... this is what happens when you head out for a 40-minute ski in the middle of some Christmas errands, carrying no map and possessing only a vague idea of the trail network (Mono Nordic). I wish I'd worn my GPS because I'm not sure where I went, but there were lots of hilly loop-de-loops. I wouldn't have purposely subjected my pathetic tibialis anterior muscles to a full hour of skate skiing on the second run of the year, but I'm glad I got lost!