Saturday, October 31, 2020
Ice is forming in the ravines
Friday, October 30, 2020
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Make your plan to vote
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Monday, October 26, 2020
Post mortem on big effort
Despite the disappointment, it was my biggest day, since the ultra last November. It certainly was a worthwhile training day, as I look forward to the Canadian ski marathon and the Grand Traverse, later in the winter. (Given trail conditions, and the fact that I might not have been completely recovered from the recent virtual half marathon; it was probably overly ambitious.) It does confirm what I had surmised eleven months ago though ... that 50k under ideal conditions was the absolute maximum I could expect to accomplish in a trail run.
The totals for Friday's big effort include: 20+ miles, 4500' gain, and just under 9 hours on the trail.
Sunday, October 25, 2020
OFELAS ... Pathfinder a movie from 1987
Get ready for ski season, with some authentic skiing from Lapland, and a recreation of various nomadic legends, in this movie which was nominated for an academy award for Best Foreign Film.
The film was written and directed by Nils Gaup, who based the story on a Sami legend with variants in a number of Scandinavian folklores. Gaup said he heard the story from his grandfather, who was in turn told the story by a traditional storyteller.[3] Gaup wove the story around the core of the legend, and introduced details such as shamanic initiation rite and a romantic element with the character Sahve. The film was set in the pre-Christian era in the region depicting the worldview of the Sami people.
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Greenlight for the Saranac Sixers
Tomorrow morning at 3 am, I'll be sipping my earl grey tea, and getting ready for a long day ... 33 miles and 8500'
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Skiing the Presidential Range
Starting to make my plans for skiing next spring in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ... keeping fingers crossed that we will not have to see another Covid closure. Hoping also, to take advantage of the new guidebook and ski some less popular, out of the way gems.
Monday, October 19, 2020
Mummery’s book: My Climbs In The Alps And Caucasus
So far I have finished the first two chapters of this classic ... available for free on Google Books.
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Rusty Piton ... finally found a bottle
Saturday, October 17, 2020
Beautiful day for a run ...
The pandemic and the mountain town
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/opinion/covid-19-winter.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Contributors
Thoughtful, philosophical, and well written, take a minute to read this op-ed.
Friday, October 16, 2020
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Three excellent time trials
Last week was a big volume week, with the elite teams from Sun Valley Ski Foundation, Bridger Ski Foundation, and Crosscut Mountain all doing training camps at Soldier Hollow, the site of the 2002 Olympics. They were often joined in their workouts by skiers from the D-1 University of Utah program.
Lucy was the only athlete to ski in three of four time trials, as she did a straight cross country race, as well as two biathlon time trials. All three races were excellent, with her finishing second in both biathlon races, behind 2018 Olympian Joanna Reid. She was also the only biathlete - male or female - to clean all of her targets in one of the races.
Her training seems on track, even though she is juggling a demanding job with the Montana Democratic Party, during this critically important election cycle.
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Monday, October 12, 2020
Scouting for mountain bike terrain
Sunday, October 11, 2020
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Friday, October 9, 2020
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Running my first virtual race
Actually I just did this 21k race for the T-shirt, as a momento of the "Covid pandemic and the year without races." Nevertheless, it was a good workout. I ran it at my 50k race pace, and threw in 4x1k intervals much faster on the long uphills.
A Bit Of History ...
