One more ski trip to the yurt is in the books. Great weather and snow on Saturday, but today's ski home was cloudy, super windy, and wind-blown snow. Yesterday we got in four or five runs in the day (4 hours of PT) and two short runs at night (1 hour). The snow was awesome! We kept our packs on for the first two runs because we were heading over to the yurt and not going back up to where we started the run, so that's two times uphill with a 30 pound pack. The second time up with my pack I hit a wall. Then over to the yurt. We had some AWESOME CUISINE for dinner; a buddy brought up elk and deer steaks and cooked them perfection. Wow! Then we hit a couple shorter runs at night under a 85% illum and cloudy, but I didn't need my headlight. I love night-ops!
The wind howled all night, and we saw the results in the snow this morning. A few areas had good snow, but the run we chose to ski had really rough snow. I thought I saw a lynx (yes, unbelievable, but I really think it was a lynx!). Cloudy skies and lots of wind. Oh well, I guess that means I have to go again at some point. It snowed about three inches here at the house this afternoon, so the mountain probably got about six new inches. Total of about two hours of PT today.
I can feel my lower abs got a good workout that they aren't used to. And I ran out of gas on the uphills, so I think my overall endurance has gone down a bit since mid-January. Or maybe it's because I was wearing my pack the entire time. I really don't know.
This past week, I got in 12.8 hours of PT, with 11.5 scheduled. I didn't hit all my workouts, but I got both bike workouts in and some long endurance workouts while skiing.
This week is all standard workouts, and I'm going to throw in some easy 30minute biking on Tuesday and Thursday morning.
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