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.

Workout:

• 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.

Workout:

• 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: 2,669 m
• Descent: 2,718 m