the rest of the rest...

week one of break...lessee, dec17 was my last day off of skiing... since then i've done one race, and 6 sets of intervals... the last week of school is a blur, with 5 hours / night for sleep doing really good. it really affeted my training, as I've been very flat, and tired, both in practice (mine, not the coaching, i can in fact yell good job when i'm tired), and in events...

this week of school it's been just dumping snow... so i've been touring (drive up to mountain at 6 or so, then staying to ski for an hour or two... or going back later... basically i'm thrashed...

today, hadn't planned on skiing (would have made 13 days in a row), but i woke up at 5;15 like clockwork, so i got up, ate, and drove up early in a blizzard. in the parking lot I had to push myself out of a snow drift, but once i get going the car planes out just fine... i had left an important part of my boot in a ski partners car. so i turned around. no problem. beautiful sunrise, or would have been were it not whiteout conditions.

so it's technically a rest day, but i may go do some upper body and abs at the gym. Note: Ski tour means put climbing skins on skis, and skin up runs, before removing gear and skiing down. Usually done at a ridiculously early hour. Could be done in the wilderness, but i'm going for convenience and safety lately.

disregard what follows. it's just for my archive. 17.5 hours. 2 weights. 3 intervals.

12/30 weights.
12/29 Saturday: slept 7 hours. 2.5 hour ski tour, then 4x4 skate intervals, had a hard time keeping up w/ training partner, but the guy is good. Felt better. feeling 3rd interval set of week.
12/28 Friday. Slept 5 hours. Tour, 2 hours, great snow, 1.5 hour classic ski easy. felt flat.
12/27 Thursday. Good sleep. Ski tour. 2 hour I think. Fantastic snow. Then skate intervals. 4x4, with 4 minutes rest. A little flat. Weights.
12/26 Wednesday. Good sleep. Ski tour. 2 hours
12/25 Merry Christmas. Good sleep. Intervals. Classic. 4x4.
12/24 Ski tour in morning. 2 hours. Night ski under full moon.
12/23 Sunday. Good sleep. 2.5 hour ski in pouring rain.
12/22 5 hours sleep. Ski race. Ski'd at 'tempo' i.e., i took it pretty easy for the first half.
12/21 5 hours sleep. Oh crap, I may have rested then! that means....
12/20 5 hours sleep. 2 ski train. with team. then intervals after.
12/19 5 hours sleeep. 2 hour ski. weights...
12/18 5 hours sleep (see the pattern?) two skis...
12/17 5 hours sleep. rest day.
12/16 3 hour skate ski.

ski race.

10km, 35 min, improvement from this time last year but didn't make goal. this week, 42km sunday, mon off, tuesday, 1.5 hour classic, 1 hour skate(with 4x3min intervals), wednesday, 45 min skate, thursday, 1 hour 15min skate (w/ 4x3 min intervals, and one, 1min), friday, 1 hour skate (w/ a 2min,3, 4, 3, 2) set, saturday, 7km warmup, 10km race, 5km cool down.

i guess tapering wouldn't have killed me.

skis delaminated friday night, so i glued them back together, and got some quick wax on them and made it to the race...

with 10 seconds to spare (literally)... lessee, in the past year, i've had a 'miss my start', fall over in my start, break a pole in my start, and 4 :10 second just in time starts...

yipppee..

tommorrow, something like a 40km ski SLOWWWWWW. 2 more weeks of ridiculous intervals, then a month of easier intensity (maybe one intensity per week, and one race)...

ultimate to follow.