Dion’s Exercise and …

Got back out on the rollerblades now I’m back in Melbourne. Even managed to get out of bed and get out there. Was hard work starting off up the slight hill from home, but after the first lap I pretty much settled into a grove and stuck it out for 5 laps. The pedometer function in the phone counted 4023 steps, I guess I’ll have to try and count them to see if it’s right one day ! Here’s the link to SportsTracker so you can get dizzy watching the loops !

Logbook Activity

• Type: Run
• Date: 01/07/2008
• Time: 05:22:00
• Total Time: 1:04:52.97
• Average Heart rate: 143
• Max Heart rate: 166
• Calories: 739
• Distance: 18.41 km
• Average Pace: 3:31.52/km
• Ascent: 65 m
• Descent: 66 m

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

With the boys out staying at their Grandma’s I got out for a skate in the light. Sure makes those tree root lumps less surprising then in the dark ! Sure was hard work …

I used the downhill bits to work on short radius turns powering off the apex which is a great quad workout. The rest was trying to keep a nice smooth skating style going which is way easier on the flat then up the little hills.

All in all a good session, must try to keep these up twice a week before I’m skiing in a month or so.

Logbook Activity

• Type: Run
• Date: 07/10/2007
• Time: 12:00:00
• Total Time: 1:10:23.00
• Average Heart rate: 149
• Max Heart rate: 175
• Distance: 17.7 km
• Average Pace: 3:58.57/km
• Ascent: 72 m
• Descent: 72 m

No not running, inline skating ! 5 laps around the park, still need to check the distance around so the speed may change, not the effort though !

Logbook Activity

• Type: Run
• Date: 06/05/2007
• Time: 05:33:00
• Total Time: 1:07:30.00
• Average Heart rate: 148
• Max Heart rate: 168
• Calories: 816
• Distance: 18 km
• Average Pace: 3:45/km
• Ascent: 65 m
• Descent: 75 m