WOW.
This is today. Its raining. Ice on roads in some areas. 35 mph winds in others. Snow is melting.
Can you believe the snow? and SUN!!!
I tell you. I could NOT stay on my trainer yesterday (saturday) indoors when the sun finally come out. (bad hair and all)
I love classic skiing. Nordic skiing on a groomed track is such a good workout and heavenly out in the woods.
I love classic skiing. Nordic skiing on a groomed track is such a good workout and heavenly out in the woods.
But..... why yes...Those are SKATE SKI's!! I am on some skate ski's.
When I was learning to classic ski, those silly wisconsin people kept skiing past me on those much faster skate ski-things. Sometimes just chatting with each other cruising along seemingly effortlessly. hmmmmm.
Hooooooo boy. It is an entirely different sport. It is TOUGH. Tough to learn. Its opposite what I thought. I thought it was going to be like skating. Its opposite. You lean your weight and the push comes from that. Hard to explain and Harder still to do it.
But I truly believe it is a sport I can hopefully do every winter as I get older. So. Tough it out and learn. One woman told me it took her about two years to get it down.
But I truly believe it is a sport I can hopefully do every winter as I get older. So. Tough it out and learn. One woman told me it took her about two years to get it down.
SO. I have time to learn it. Besides, it is nice to be outside on a pleasantly sunny wintery day. Last year I spent all winter on the trainer. This is so refreshing to have something else to do. The sunshine made me high and I am still in a good mood from it.
It was 24 degrees but I was sweating up a storm. Hank, of course, is passing people already.
He lapped me at least once. We were out skiing for 5 hours!!!
We were at the PET...(petrified woods or something like that) up where the Parkside races are at in Kenosha.
I was happy when we got home and there, waiting at the door was the box I ordered for Hank's valetines' present. ( a little late) A wonderful instructional lesson for classic and skate skiing by a company that has a series of outdoor instructional videos. The two I got were not that expensive and VERY well done. I am impressed!!
The packaging made me think it was going to be something boring and 'mom and pop'- ish. But WOW....It's really well produced and even has an HD feel to it at times. And ..Helicopter shots!. The woman in the video is incredible! She does a biathelon scene with the men and is totally strong, Amazon strong. World class pro in fact. OMG. There is so much on this video. Great 90 minutes of exciting to watch footage at the end. We watched that while on the trainer this morning.
This is today. Its raining. Ice on roads in some areas. 35 mph winds in others. Snow is melting.
ugh.
We were inside on the trainer. I was kind of surprised that my legs were fine for the duration.
That instructional video with the action at the end really helped me today. So. Still on the bike. But much happier mentally for the different sport.
1 comment:
Skating is such fun!! I haven't gone skate skiing yet....because I90 at the pass (in Washington state) has had way too much snow. Don't want to be out in an avalanche.
Glad you got out and tried it!
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