City of lakes loppet 2009

Well the loppet was yesterday and I made it just fine. the time was 2:55 minutes which is 5 minutes faster than I planed. But that is not the story of this years loppet. We had really unseasonably warm weather and the coarse turned into glide-less piles of wet ice ball bearings. Very, Very tough going. Anywhere there was shade the snow had no glide at all it was like skiing on sand paper. In the sun the glide was maybe half that of normal/favorable conditions.

Me and my main training buddy.

Me hauling my totally shot ass... legs, arms, back, front, and lungs, across the line : )

That's me in the green coming through a wooded and really hilly section

Well that's enough whining about the snow. Other than that really positive experience. great people, teammates from cycling racing, family and skiing friends all there cheering each other on. The good karma was in full flow on sunday. I skied the last 4 or 5 kilometers with the mayor of minneapolis, super fun.

Below is the data from my garmin. My heart rate was in climbing threshold most of the time. 3 straight hours of threshold punctuated by max efforts will really make a guy tuckered : ) for those who may be interested my tested vo2 max is 182.

I am still digesting what happened yesterday it was to say the least a very dense experience.

On to the next.