2009 April

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pMTU Contribution from J. Cork and E. Mundahl/p pRace: NCAA 20k Skatebr/br/ Grind: Sports Rack NCbr/br/ Layer 1: Start Graphite (ironed twice)br/br/ Layer 2: Toko HF Red (2 Layers)br/br/ Layer 3: 2 parts Start Graphite, 2 parts Toko HF Red, 1 part Toko HF Yellow (Applied Simultaneously, ironed twice, See photos)br/br/ Layer 4: 25% Toko Jetstream Red, 25% Toko Jetstream Yellow, 50% Toko Jetstream Old Snowbr/br/ Hand Structure: Swix 1.0mm Roller over Swix 0.5mm Roller/p

I thought I was handling my Achilles injury pretty well.   Even though March and April are my favorite months to ski in Alaska, I haven’t been too depressed.   Maybe the fact that volcanic ash has slightly tarnished the snow conditions has helped me from being disappointed.  But I’ve been focusing on doing what I [...]

img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/COiZNt422mjb561gKV9BlRfwo1_500.jpg"/br/br/Season in Photos 2.  Team USA van at the World Championships.  (Phil Bowen photo. Follow him on twitter: FakePhilsGood)

pCaldwell Reports:/p pWhistler Nor Am (moved to Vernon) 20K skate mass start./p pGrind: CV0/p pBase Treatment: Heatbox saturation. Heatbox conditioning with LF6/p pBase hardening: CH4 (3 applications)/p pParaffin: LF4/p pHardner: LF3/p pPowder: HP04/p pShell:C380/p pCold rub: HP04/p pHand Structure: Speedy SSM/p pOptimizer: Foxgel Med/p

Sorry to have been away from the posting for a while. I got myself a twitter account, and while I can’t say I’ve been prolific, the little bit of muttering I’ve done has seemed to sap the energy I would normally devote to the blog. Or it could just be that I’m lazy.

Today was the second warm day of spring here in Bend, though with temps heading above 80 tomorrow, it might be less like spring and more like summer. In fact the whole week has been pretty nice, and I’ve been able to get out and enjoy it a little. I got in two days of Alpine skiing (trying hard to make the spring path worth the $129, I haven’t figured out what my goal should be in terms of runs or vertical, but since Bachelor let’s me track both, I figure a goal is in order… please offer suggestions in the comments), a short run (did my legs ever feel shaky after that one!) a crust ski on the Bachelor trails yesterday and a bike ride today. Pretty excellent really.

I think tomorrow I may try to re-acquaint myself with paddling in preparation of the upcoming multi-sport event that grips Bend with a wild fever. If anyone has or knows of a TT bike in town for me to borrow, I’m all ears.

Back to work this week, and I’ll do my best to stay active. Training starts up again for real in about 10 days, so it would be good to be ready. Just have to come up with a good plan for the year between now and then.

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pa href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=attth=120af79651d34a4battid=0.1disp=attdzw"br//a/p piAttached is the .pdf from the “Ryggprosjekt” (“Back Project”) video.br/ If you haven’t seen it, it’s a core strength program which thebr/ Norwegian Ski Federation commissioned. I got the .pdf from Petebr/ Phillips, who also has the DVD.br/br/ Also attached is the English translation of the .pdf (in Word). Therebr/ are, no doubt, areas where the translation could be improved, but I’vebr/ spent enough time talking to our Norwegian and consultingbr/ GoogleTranslate and just decided that they refer to things differentlybr/ in Norway. The pictures help.br/br/ Anyway, thought you guys might want to take a look at it as a resourcebr/ if you haven’t seen it yet.br/br/ jcork/i br/br/iPS: “Bedre Skiteknikk” from Langrenn.com is a pretty weak DVD. Notbr/ worth ordering. FYI./i/p