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uh, last week, ski'd thursday and friday, biked, once maybe? ran a bunch, lifted twice, pretty good... this saturday, ski'd, then ran mile repeats (1.3 miles to park, 2 x 1 mile w/ 3 min recovery, ran .25 mile to library, picked up tax forms, ran home, so w/ recovery jogging, maybe 5-5.5 w/ the recovery jogging between runs).... pretty good. the ski was fantastic, the runs... i think i ran the repeats at 6:30 pace, which was pretty easy, compared to 6 down to 5:40 ish last year 'in season'... and the effort was 'moderate' so i think i'm pretty fit, if not run specific prepared... i did taxes the rest of the day... so i missed the first day of the gandy goose... uh, plus it was 43 and raining, and i'm a wuss, and etc. fully prepared to go out sunday, i woke up w/ a norovirus, or food poisoning, or something... i slept/slept w/ tv on/ returned to sleeping allday, and finally went to sleep at 8 pm... blech. they managed to pull it off with out me...

the full grooming season is now over, with partial grooming wednesdays and saturdays... i'll make an effort to hit both...

last fridays 1 day tournament was an eye opener for the team... i split them X/Y, and as you can imagine, the talent is pretty accross the board in a one month hs season... kids got whomped... mission accomplished. the whole team has buy in to a varsity/JV split from here on out, which would not be the case if I'd done it arbitrarily... so, that's good. i'm missing 2 clear starters (one surgery, one prolonged achilles thing) but the varsity should be OK w/ a couple weeks of practice.

monday practice was pretty good, exhausted, I couldn't even jog w/ the team (dehydration/muscle cramps)... but much better focus at practice... the 30 minute scrimmage was mixed, but the last 10 minutes i used a 'freeze/discuss' to stop play when everything went to crap (clustering/need to break, etc)... and it cleaned up quite a bit.

today, i wanted to stretch my legs after 10 hours of bustin' it at the office (3 shows daily, all different, stay for the veal)... so i ran 10 minutes, then did 3 hill repeats of 4, 3:40, 3:30... legs were a little tight, but lungs and cardio felt great. exact same time i ran 2 years ago, 'in season', so, I think it would have been no problem to crank out at the least, 2 more 3:30's..., if not faster... pretty happy with fitness, if the legs aren't specifically run trained...

tomorrow, i'll coach, then go for a couple hour bike ride... maybe ski if the opportunity arises... thursday is league night, i'll try to make it... frankly, i'd prefer to run a few 800's first... league lasts for 10 more weeks...



funny story, made short, thursday, i grabbed my skis, went to mountain, put on skis, and only then realized that i had the wrong poles. wrong as in they weren't mine. i'd grabbed the wrong ones out of someones car the sunday before. these had no straps (which are sort of key to nordic skiing, totally key to proper power application and recovery phase), these are this kind that clip to the special proprietary glove (which i don't have)... so that led to a series of stroke, stroke, stroke, leave the pole stuck in the snow...

that's all