http://fasterskier.com/2009/12/world-cup-mass-start-us-report/ FasterSkier: Cross-Country Ski, Biathlon, and Nordic Combined Racing, Training and News Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:10:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://fasterskier.com/2009/12/world-cup-mass-start-us-report/comment-page-1/#comment-1097 kris freeman Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:54:15 +0000 http://fasterskier.com/?p=68672#comment-1097 When it rains is pours. My flight to Paris was canceled due to weather so I have some time to kill in the Munich airport. I was going to write a full blog explaining what happened but Zach did a pretty good job above and reliving the experience is frustrating. The only thing that Zach was unclear about is that the reliability of glucose monitors fall with the temperature. technically they can give falsely low results at temperatures below 45 degrees farenheit. I am usually able to keep the monitor warm enough to function properly in my waterbottle belt by using chemical handwarmers. This strategy becomes unreliable at temps below 10 degree farenheit which happens to be what the temp was yesterday. I only had 20 minutes to test my skis on the race course after the women finished and the nearest heated room was several minutes away. I had to make a judegement call before the race and I chose not to believe the monitor though using hindsight it was obviously correct. I am angry with myself for messing up yesterday. Planning is key to my performance and I blew it. When it rains is pours. My flight to Paris was canceled due to weather so I have some time to kill in the Munich airport. I was going to write a full blog explaining what happened but Zach did a pretty good job above and reliving the experience is frustrating. The only thing that Zach was unclear about is that the reliability of glucose monitors fall with the temperature. technically they can give falsely low results at temperatures below 45 degrees farenheit. I am usually able to keep the monitor warm enough to function properly in my waterbottle belt by using chemical handwarmers. This strategy becomes unreliable at temps below 10 degree farenheit which happens to be what the temp was yesterday.
I only had 20 minutes to test my skis on the race course after the women finished and the nearest heated room was several minutes away. I had to make a judegement call before the race and I chose not to believe the monitor though using hindsight it was obviously correct. I am angry with myself for messing up yesterday. Planning is key to my performance and I blew it.

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