20-60-40 Triathlon

I'm a family guy who is addicted to swim/bike/run and anything to do with getting out into the backcountry wilderness areas. This blog focuses on the swim, bike, run and other various aspects of my attempts to finish in the top ten percent of my age group in whatever race I do. It used to be all about finishing the legs of an Olympic Distance triathlon: swim in 20 minutes, bike in 60 minutes, and run in 40 minutes. Now, it's more about training well and finishing well.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Another "two-day workout" in the books!

Back from the yurt trip, which I'm calling a two-day workout. It's not a full two days, of course, but it feels like it. This weekend I went to the yurt again, so it was two days of backcountry skiing for my cross-training. Honestly, it's a five-hour workout for both days, skinning uphill and then skiing downhill. This weekend, I tried to slow down on the downhill and make many turns and burn up my quads, and I was pretty successful at that. I got in a lot of runs, too, so there was more uphill skinning than last week. My whole body is pretty tired tonight. The weather was beautiful, the warmest and clearest skies I've skied under in January. We got in a few runs under the stars, too, which were awesome.

Here's a photo of the hills that we climb up and ski down. It's generally about 800-1,000 ft of vertical for each run, and the below photo is a snapshot of one area.