Monday, February 06, 2006
1st week in Breck
Saturday I awoke to 12" of new snow with a total of 41 inches in a week. I spent the morning snowboarding, went home for lunch then strapped on the tele skis for an afternoon session, then hopped on the trainer for an hour of intervals.
Sunday: Again I awoke to 9" of new snow. Now the "normal" person would be stoked and go hit the slopes. But, my "race" side said no dice as there was a cross country ski race 9 miles away. I rolled to the race and signed up for the 10K skate race. I have not skied 10K all year, but it was a race and we all know that I have to race. I line up front row of course and the cannon goes off. They had a real cannon. I rock out of the start and hang with the leaders for the first 2K then the 10,000 ft of altitude and lack of oxegen kicks in and I settle down to a mellower
pace. We roll through the first lap and I'm tempted to turn it in for the day, but decide to rock another lap. I roll in at 43 mins and about top 20 - once I get the results I'll let you know. Top 5 in my age class forsure. I'll take it for my first
race of the year. I packed the skinny skis up and then hit the Mountain for a couple of hours of snowboarding.
Sunday: Again I awoke to 9" of new snow. Now the "normal" person would be stoked and go hit the slopes. But, my "race" side said no dice as there was a cross country ski race 9 miles away. I rolled to the race and signed up for the 10K skate race. I have not skied 10K all year, but it was a race and we all know that I have to race. I line up front row of course and the cannon goes off. They had a real cannon. I rock out of the start and hang with the leaders for the first 2K then the 10,000 ft of altitude and lack of oxegen kicks in and I settle down to a mellower
pace. We roll through the first lap and I'm tempted to turn it in for the day, but decide to rock another lap. I roll in at 43 mins and about top 20 - once I get the results I'll let you know. Top 5 in my age class forsure. I'll take it for my first
race of the year. I packed the skinny skis up and then hit the Mountain for a couple of hours of snowboarding.
