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Sometimes I forget that my readers might actually be interested in the nitty-gritty training detail. I train a lot, so I'm more interested in the marveling at the sudden weather changes and the geology around Eagle glacier.
Speaking of weather changes and geology. I was absolutely fascinated by both. The weather could be so different from one minute to the next and even on different parts of the course. And I wanted to make a 3d vector graph of the wind-- some places it would be wicked fast and then you'd reach a point on the trail where it would suddenly cease. I wanted to throw a huge handful of sand or dust motes up over the glacier on a sunny day and be able to see the wind patterns. I also wanted to have S.Konrad up there so she could tell me glacial geology stories. Her specialty is rock glaciers but I bet that girl knows a thing or two about your run-of-the-mill glacier too.
Back to actually skiing. I have everything I did training-wise up there immaculately recorded in my training log. The training log itself even without any of my training numbers in it is pretty impressive-- and excel workbook with 19 tabs. One of which is "Directions."
Everyday people trained a total of 3-4hrs, except on Wednesday and Sunday when we only skied in the morning, for a total of between 18 and 25 hours over the week. Mostly distance training in L1-L2. Erik lets us do distance training up in L2 which I think is good up on the glacier because with the altitude (5200-5700' depending on who I asked) it's hard to ski technically well in L1. I don't like the L2 training dryland so much because I'm simply not used to it so I just get dropped like a piece of moldy cheese with mouse droppings on it. Back up on the glacier we did speed workouts Tuesday morning and Saturday afternoon, individual pick-ups Wed and Fri morning, and a longer L3 interval Tuesday afternoon and Saturday morning. We also busted out 5minutes of strength on Wednesday. Those 5minutes are the only minutes in my training log for last week not under the "skate" or "classic" columns. That alone is enough to know it was a good week!
Speaking of weather changes and geology. I was absolutely fascinated by both. The weather could be so different from one minute to the next and even on different parts of the course. And I wanted to make a 3d vector graph of the wind-- some places it would be wicked fast and then you'd reach a point on the trail where it would suddenly cease. I wanted to throw a huge handful of sand or dust motes up over the glacier on a sunny day and be able to see the wind patterns. I also wanted to have S.Konrad up there so she could tell me glacial geology stories. Her specialty is rock glaciers but I bet that girl knows a thing or two about your run-of-the-mill glacier too.
Back to actually skiing. I have everything I did training-wise up there immaculately recorded in my training log. The training log itself even without any of my training numbers in it is pretty impressive-- and excel workbook with 19 tabs. One of which is "Directions."
Everyday people trained a total of 3-4hrs, except on Wednesday and Sunday when we only skied in the morning, for a total of between 18 and 25 hours over the week. Mostly distance training in L1-L2. Erik lets us do distance training up in L2 which I think is good up on the glacier because with the altitude (5200-5700' depending on who I asked) it's hard to ski technically well in L1. I don't like the L2 training dryland so much because I'm simply not used to it so I just get dropped like a piece of moldy cheese with mouse droppings on it. Back up on the glacier we did speed workouts Tuesday morning and Saturday afternoon, individual pick-ups Wed and Fri morning, and a longer L3 interval Tuesday afternoon and Saturday morning. We also busted out 5minutes of strength on Wednesday. Those 5minutes are the only minutes in my training log for last week not under the "skate" or "classic" columns. That alone is enough to know it was a good week!
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