Dion’s Exercise and …

Had a quietish afternoon with Declan on the Summit. It’s a great gentle learning run though it has a bit of a steep pitch right at the bottom so lots of people stack right at the bottom for the benefit of the lift queue.

Declan was doing really well, almost christie turns mainly matching his skis across the fall line. He has also got a lot faster and less snow plough down the hill ! I was out on my snow skates which are as deadly as always as you have to be pretty carful with your balance as there is really no ski back or front to lean on. We managed 7 runs for a total of around 650 m.

Logbook Activity

• Type: Run
• Date: 08/14/2007
• Time: 15:11:00
• Total Time: 1:18:55.80
• Average Heart rate: 95
• Max Heart rate: 135
• Ascent: 640 m
• Descent: 648 m

Went a lot harder today, took out my GS skis which go faster and turn in a bigger arc. So lots of baralleling down some of the steeper runs carving big graceful turns, well occassionally !

12 runs today around 2800 m in total vertical. Snow was just a little better then the day before being a touch softer and less icy. The bottom of one of the main runs that a lot of runs feed into gets veery chopped up and turns in to this kind of frozen sand. Everyone seems to hate it as it’s like very heavy powder, but for some weird reason I’m quite enjoying that bit as I end up bouncing quickly through a few turns and blasting through the piles of snow. It is a bit of hard work though and by the ned of the day it’s really hard work. Serious jelly quads, they just ache and don’t wnat to move again. A 10 second stop and they recover enough to chuck a few more turns in.

Logbook Activity

• Type: Run
• Date: 08/14/2007
• Time: 10:00:00
• Total Time: 3:25:42.40
• Average Heart rate: 110
• Max Heart rate: 174
• Ascent: 2669 m
• Descent: 2718 m

OK, time for the first ski report. Well, actually past the time as I actually wrote this one all up last night and as I hit Publish the Internet decided to disappear, so my post did the same thing !

Took it pretty easy the first day to try and get things warmed up. I also forgot to turn on my HRM until about 3 runs later so data is not quite there. We did a total of 12 runs covering over 2271 vertical metres. That’s a lot of squats on my telemark skis !

Snow was OK, a bit icy but also a touch of fresh cover on top. Had my Ice / tight radius skis on which were great for the conditions. The boys spent the day in ski school and both were exhausted after that. Declan is skiing well and Cadell is getting the basics together but still appears to be really enjoyng it.

Logbook Activity

• Type: Run
• Date: 08/13/2007
• Time: 10:30:00
• Total Time: 00:03:40.00
• Average Heart rate: 111
• Max Heart rate: 176
• Ascent: 2205 m
• Descent: 2271 m

Took it pretty easy on the way home after a tough Pilates session. Stopped for lunch with Bronwen and then to pickup Cadell on the tag along.

Logbook Activity

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 08/09/2007
• Time: 12:00:00
• Total Time: 00:15:00.00
• Distance: 5 km
• Average Speed: 20 kmph

Got there a bit late and with the new exercises it all took a bit longer, new stuff is very tough on the quads ! Felt a bit tired as I got on the bike to ride home !

Logbook Activity

• Type: Flexibility
• Date: 08/09/2007
• Time: 10:20:00
• Total Time: 1:30:00.00

Really tried hard to ride slow today but it was still commute time and some guy passed me so off I went ! Just meant I was a bit hot when I got to Pilates !

Logbook Activity

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 08/09/2007
• Time: 09:30:00
• Total Time: 00:25:00.00
• Distance: 5 km
• Average Speed: 12 kmph

Another windy swim day, made it rather freezing getting out to the pool after lolling around in the indoor pool the boys do their lessons in. It was even a bit chilly on the shoulders and arms for the first 10 laps or so. Felt good though, definitely feeling like I need to add another longer swim sometime in the week.

Logbook Activity

• Type: Swim
• Date: 08/07/2007
• Time: 17:03:00
• Total Time: 00:22:31.30
• Average Heart rate: 159
• Distance: 1000 m
• Average Pace: 2:15.34/100m

Just to answer the grumbling horders, we’ll the Ayars at least ! I did get out for a few bits an pieces, no long bike rides unforetunatley but maybe on Wednesday.

Next week I’l be up skiing so that will be good for the quads ! I’ll take the heart rate monitor so you can all watch the up and downs. You can usually pick the big stacks too, from the heart rate spike and the halt in altitude changes.

Better fill in my Tagged post soon too ! Still trying to remember what I first thought about Bronwen

Reverse trip home from Pilates, collecting the jobs and back home. Also went to pick up Cadell after kinder but that’s not long enough for it’s own entry !

Logbook Activity

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 08/06/2007
• Time: 11:30:00
• Total Time: 00:20:00.00
• Distance: 5 km
• Average Speed: 15 kmph

Killer workout. Got a whole lot of new exercises last Thursday and ran through them all this session. Legs a bit tired this evening ….

Logbook Activity

• Type: Flexibility
• Date: 08/06/2007
• Time: 10:00:00
• Total Time: 1:30:00.00