First Races

I finished my first two races of the season a little over a week ago. They were supposed to be a 15km individual start classic and a 10km mass start skate race. However, there was very little snow, so we race everything on a single classic track covering 4.2km, so we had two individual start classic races, the first 12.6km and the second 8.4km. The course was very flat, with only a few places per lap where you had to diagonal stride, so my arms and back were very sore. I was decently pleased for my results, seeing as how double pole is my weakest technique.

Snow!!

This is the first day where we've had snow where I haven't trained. It's rather strange to be sitting inside, watching the snow come down, and not going out to ski. What we need is another really big dump of snow, as it the base is now very hard, thanks to a fair amount of skiing and grooming, as well as recent warm temperatures, so the snow has now refrozen into a giant hard block of ice. If we get that then hopefully the rocks, slag and loose gravel that cover much of the trail will be completely buried, and the skiing will be immaculate. And hopefully Lappe gets more snow for the first Ontario Cup (and my first race) of the season.

Laws

I have two points, both of which of are laws of life (and both happen to relate to food).

Evan's First Law: The last person out of a group of people to order at a fast food restaurant will be served in what feels like the most time.

Evan's Second Law: Maple syrup makes all food better, and can make the eating of non-food things that much easier.

If you can find someway of disputing these laws, let me know. First race in just six days, hoping it goes well.

SNOW!!!!

I've skied every day for the past eight days, including some really shitty skiing on about 2mm of snow on Wednesday of this week. It was the first time in my life I was able to claim the first ski of the season of the team I'm training with. And I celebrated the last night without skiing by attending a midnight screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Loads of fun, and I got to wear a dress for the first time in my life, which was interesting. The lack of pockets and any upper body material was bothersome, and rather cold in the theatre. But, there is snow, in the form of a short (about 400m) hamster loop around a pair of soccer fields. Hopefully we will get on the actual trails soon! And I have exams coming up soon, but that doesn't bother me too too much. 13 days till my first race of the season, a 15km individual start classic race at Lappe in Thunder Bay on the 19th, followed by a 10km free mass start on the Sunday. But I have to get through exams first.