<highpeaksops@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1129159739.216368.297230@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...>
Bjorn A. Payne Diaz wrote:>> This group has been pretty dead, so I'll fire off a topic.>
Okay, I'll bite!>
What have I been doing? Cycling baby. Road cycling and one mt bike ride>> back in September.>> (If you don't train more, get better equipment.)>
We've got some similarities here. I got a new pair of classic skis> earlier this summer and am now shopping for a new road bike. Since gas> hit $ 3 per gal, I commute on my old beater bike.>
I've actually been rollerskiing pretty regularly, maybe 100K a week. A> couple-three days doing a 30K out & back course I have and at least one> day of either classic or DP stuff.>
I should be (but I can't seem to make it) doing some weight work, I do> a bit of stretching a few mornings every week.>
- Bob
I've been thinking about a post of the same topic. Today I joined and went to a gym to try to get some core strength back. Rollerksied maybe 4x since last season. Down about 1300 km. from average of years past. Not a single major roller ski climb, and most often I do that about once a week off season. One time on roller skis I did way too much and was crippled for a few days. I commute regularly on one of a few classy randonneur, touring or rough stuff bikes to and from work which is no less than 45 miles in total. Sometimes it includes a 1500 foot climb on roads and fire roads. But we just bought a Prius (gave away our Camry with 200K on it) and it's dark and wet outside these days during bike commuting hours. So riding will subside. My weight is the same as usual but my upper body isn't strong. Hoping to get that together. Numerous injuries as I don't stretch nor do core strength stuff. Just ride and ride. Wood splitting started a few weeks ago once the temps. dropped below 90 F.
Middle age skiier lamentations.
Hope to do Birkie if I can get a primo room. (Andrey?) It'll be a ski tour at best for me. Finishing will be a goal.
Terje Mathisen 13 October 2005 11:55:06 [ permanent link ]
highpeaksops@yahoo.com wrote:
We've got some similarities here. I got a new pair of classic skis> earlier this summer and am now shopping for a new road bike. Since gas> hit $ 3 per gal, I commute on my old beater bike.
Wow! That's almost 50% of the gas price in most of Europe you know!
Terje
-- - <Terje.Mathisen@hda.hydro.com> "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"
April, buy a new road bike, rd bike every chance I get. Mid-June remember I have singed up for a two-day trail running festival, shelve the bike and try to run as much as I can. Mid-July, back on the bike and think about rollerskiing. August, still on hte bike thinking about roller skiing and thinking about doing a half-marathon in Oct. Sept, finally starty rolerskiing and ride not so much. Also in Sept remember that it is time to do some inerval work. Mid-September, bag the idea of the half marathon, not enough quality long running miles. Oct, get convinced that I should do a half marathong (this weekend), so shelve the rollerskis and get back to running.
Overall I think my general fitness is good. Upper body strength is not what it should be and I haven't rollerskied nearly as much as I have in recent years. Should be interesting to see what happens this winter.
I will add that the spring, summer, and early fall I have described is what I love about summer. From mid-Novermber to mid-April (Gene you should have moved to the Keweenaw), all I do (can do really) is ski. Don't get me wrong, I love that and wouldn't change it for anything but I love that in summer you have many more options for training/being active outside. Any given day may find me: mtn biking, rollerskiing, trail running, road biking, kayaking, canoeing, hiking. That variety is nice.
A final note, now that we have had our first dusting of snow and the ski catalogs are starting to be delivered, I am drooling at the prospect of skiing 6 days a week.
Dave
"Bjorn A. Payne Diaz" <wenner@cbs.umn.edu> wrote in message news:1129155854.569889.226160@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...> This group has been pretty dead, so I'll fire off a topic.>
Each year, I keep trying the beer gut path to faster skiing. It seems> to be working so I'll stick with it.>
I haven't done much rollerskiing this year. Should I be concerned?>
I haven't done much intervals this year. Should I be concerned?>
What have I been doing? Cycling baby. Road cycling and one mt bike ride> back in September.>
Oh yeah, I ordered new skis today. (If you don't train more, get better> equipment.)>
Gene Goldenfeld 14 October 2005 06:27:45 [ permanent link ]
joc9@comcast.net wrote:>
A now mature revolutionary like your self should remember the> mantra...never trust the so-called experts...or in our current> setting..."all snow to the people">
peace...love...a foot of powder that is groomed quickly
Including the experts on the Twin Cities? JOC, I see a retirement career for you as a local publicist, before you disappear into the Wisconsin woods.
Gene Goldenfeld 14 October 2005 06:36:10 [ permanent link ]
It seems a lot of people locally decided to branch out since last winter. There seem to be more skiers canoeing and doing various forms of tri. I put in more road riding hours myself and didn't touch rollerskis until June, and then just to do a lactate test. Do you think it's the lack of snow, the satisfaction following the fastest Birkie in years, or...? I suppose these things cycle.
Gene
"Bjorn A. Payne Diaz" wrote:>
This group has been pretty dead, so I'll fire off a topic.>
Each year, I keep trying the beer gut path to faster skiing. It seems> to be working so I'll stick with it.>
I haven't done much rollerskiing this year. Should I be concerned?>
I haven't done much intervals this year. Should I be concerned?>
What have I been doing? Cycling baby. Road cycling and one mt bike ride> back in September.>
Oh yeah, I ordered new skis today. (If you don't train more, get better> equipment.)>
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