Thursday, February 21, 2008
In Big Sky Country for Regionals.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
It's been a while
It’s been a long while. My excuse is that my darn computer has been acting up and I've been out of internet access for about a week. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Since the last update I've had five races. Two not so great races, and three better races. Currently, I just got home from
Crested
The next day, for the 15k skate, the plan was to go out much harder and really throw down once we hit the flats. That seemed to work much better. I went out fairly early, ahead of most of the really fast guys. The splits were going really well right off the bat. After the first lap I was just 4 seconds out of the lead, for the first 23 people. The next split I got, about 3k later I was 7 seconds in the lead! Perfect. All I had to do then was worry about everyone starting behind me. The third lap was the hardest. I fell back quite a bit from where I was. I had a really hard time keeping it together for the last kilometer or so. I ended up 15th that day. After talking to the coaches, I guess I was running in the top 10 for a while, until I fell off the pace the last kilometer. Oh well, lesson learned. The team did much better the second day. Raph was 5th, Andy 10th, and Max was 18th.
The next day was a recovery day, or it was supposed to be. I got to go tele skiing on the mountain with the Alpine team. What a workout tele skiing is on different gear, chasing fast alpiners, through powder, at 10,000 feet or more. To say the least, it was a blast, and a good workout! The resort at Crested Butte is pretty sweet. There are three different bowls that you have to hike out of that have some really nice steep terrain with lots of powder. It looks like it would be a pain in the ass to patrol. After about 4 hours of chasing the 'piners around the mountain my quads were giant knots. I wish I could have got all my money's worth out of that full day ticket, but I could hardly turn.
That night the snow kept coming down. We received a foot or more that night. Too bad I had to spend that day recovering for the next races it would have been nice to go tele skiing again. The alpine team couldn't train gaits, so they went and hit up all the fresh snow. I guess by about
After spending a week in Crested Butte the team split up; the alpiners went to
It was bitter sweet to be back at
Anyways for the first time traveling this season we had sun the entire time we were in a town. It seems like every other place we have been to we get one great sunny day then the rest of the stay is overcast and or snowing. In
The next day was going to be crazy. A lot of us hadn't raced a 5k for quite some time. On top of racing such a short race it was going to be even more interesting at 10,000 feet. The plan was to take it out faster than the 10k but still keep from killing our selves on the first hill then hammer the rest of the course. The race went by soooooo fast! There wasn't any time to think. Pretty much all that was going through my head was, "GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO, rest, breath, breath, GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO". Then it was over. I started 10th, so my goal was to finish in the lead. I just missed my goal by 7 seconds. I finished 12th, just 3.6 seconds out of the top 10. UAA had a really good day that day. Raph was 2nd and Andy finished 5th! The men's nordic team tied for second that day with
On our way back from
Well, it's getting late, I'd better sign off. Pictures will come soon.