It's full on ski season at the moment, so I'm hanging on for dear life. I have managed to get a few easy trainer spins in lately - by lately I mean about one a week. I timed yesterday morning's spin to matching last evening's clinic I was teaching at Liberty to some of our exam candidates.
Perfect snow for night skiing - slightly stiffened granular without a hint of ice anywhere. Yet not slushy enough to suck you down too much. In anticipation of the temperature dropping, I overdressed. I would soon regret that.
Among other things, the instructors I was skiing with needed to put a little juice in their legs and a little confidence in their bump skiing. So... we started with long radius turns with a hop in the middle (known as leapers to you skiers)... then moved onto shortening the radius until we were in full on hops in short radius turns. And we did _a lot_ of them - mileage, mileage, mileage. And then, to top it off, we did them in the bumps.
Someone mentioned the last time they did this their core was a bit sore the next day. My feedback was sooner than that - between all those hopping turns and a morning spin, my shin muscles were sore enough that I could feel it driving home last night. Pushing the clutch in, speeding past the slowpokes. (okay, you guys who know me well know that generally I'm the slowpoke - but 40mph in a 55 zone is unacceptable if you're in front of me).
It's like I'm not 22 anymore.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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