It’s that time of year again. I am out in West Yellowstone, MT getting ready for the first races of the year. We were supposed to start racing today, but it has been snowing so much that lots of people had trouble getting into town…incl...
It’s that time of year again. I am out in West Yellowstone, MT getting ready for the first races of the year. We were supposed to start racing today, but it has been snowing so much that lots of people had trouble getting into town…incl...
It’s that time of year again. I am out in West Yellowstone, MT getting ready for the first races of the year. We were supposed to start racing today, but it has been snowing so much that lots of people had trouble getting into town…incl...
It’s that time of year again. I am out in West Yellowstone, MT getting ready for the first races of the year. We were supposed to start racing today, but it has been snowing so much that lots of people had trouble getting into town…incl...
Today was the coldest day I can remember at Fall Camp in West Yellowstone. The thermometer says it was not too bad, at -9F (-23C). But the wind never let up. Put the two together and you were quickly at the off-ramp to Frozenville.How to dress for a da...
Today was the coldest day I can remember at Fall Camp in West Yellowstone. The thermometer says it was not too bad, at -9F (-23C). But the wind never let up. Put the two together and you were quickly at the off-ramp to Frozenville.How to dress for a da...
The snow has finally subsided, the race timer and jury has finally made it to town and tomorrow, we're off! Since arriving in West Yellowstone five days ago this is the first time it's stopped snowing. APU girls "deck diving" into the wais...
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pFall has always been my least favorite time of year. It’s dark, cold, bad conditions for just about anything, and we’re supposed to be putting in a lot of hours. Not a good combination. This November has proved no different. I haven’t had my heart in my training lately so that is not helping either. I’ve been more in the mood to ‘nest’ in this weather than get out and train and hadn’t trained in a couple days. Dave came to my rescue today and got me out the door. We decided to try the U of M golf course since we figured it’d still have snow. Well, it had snow, sort of. It was more ice than snow, but we ventured out anyway. There is a fair amount of terrain there that we had to navigate in addition to bare spots and ruts so finding a good area to ski was tricky. Conversation was difficult above the noise of us scraping along but some snippets were… Angie to Dave, “Look, another fool!” as we spotted another skier, who wasn’t out long. Dave to Angie, “Come on!” in the tone you’d use to coax a puppy along. We finally picked our way to the north and east sides of the course and found some fairways that had decent coverage, few ruts, and were gradual enough that we could get up and down them reasonably well. Even so, it was rather comical to see each other hobbling and skittering along. I think my heart rate topped out at 110 since it was so hard to move around. All that said, I actually began to enjoy myself. It was a nice sunny day, I enjoyed the company, and I was even getting the hang of the ice at the end. I was thinking how it was good practice in case we have to race in conditions like we did at Pepsi last year. So it wasn’t so futile after all. (I’m still praying for a few inches of fresh snow rather than more freezing rain tomorrow though.)/p div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1572647974447867713-2391469453985667342?l=vakavaraceteam.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
Earlier this morning, when it was a balmy 49 degrees and raining (for the 2nd day in a row), I felt the need to hunt down some snow. A reliable source, Mr. Marc Gilbertson, told me tales about weekend crust skiing on the toll road at Stowe, and it sounded almost too good to be [...]
Several people have commented that my summary graphs should take into account skier’s potentially differing abilities in skating and classic. (We could slice up the data as thinly as we’d like: mass start vs. interval, etc. But that will get complicated quickly, so let’s add technique and see how it goes for now.) I pondered [...] Related posts:
A view of the Östersund biathlon range with the lake in the background.It's winter here in snowy Östersund, which suits me just fine as I'm putting the final preparations in before the first World Cup, which starts exactly a week from today! Trials ...
A view of the Östersund biathlon range with the lake in the background.It's winter here in snowy Östersund, which suits me just fine as I'm putting the final preparations in before the first World Cup, which starts exactly a week from today! Trials ...
Now for some of the folks across the pond. I’m less familiar with a lot of the European racers, so who I focus on will be largely dictated by what stands out to me in the data (or you can drop me a line if you think there’s someone I should put under the microscope!), [...] Related posts:
We have just returned to our secluded and beautiful mountain cabin at Hotel Rustad in Sjusjoen, Norway after a day of travel from Rovaneimi, Finland and the sprint race above the Arctic Circle. FYI: Roveneimi is loosing 1 hour of daylight a week right...
I didn’t know it could snow this much. The snow just keeps coming down here in West. 7*4m intervals were hard and slow, with about 3 inches of fresh snow on the trail. Thank you Caitlin for taking video and lactates for me.