Another solid week in the alpine. 4 mountain doubles this week. I was aiming to downhill ski each day this week but only managed 6 of the 7 days - conditions Thursday afternoon were pretty bad: very poor visibility and icey hard snow from the melt/freeze cycle the day before.

Saturday was the local Loppit. Steph went out and raced the 15K. Snow conditions really improved as the week closed and she got mid-winter temperatures and snow. She had a great time and raced really well. I am so proud of her.

I skied the 15K race course today at tempo - the closing 5K are tough. I was aiming for a sub 60m clocking and just missed. I gave away the time in the 1500m starting at about 8.5K. There is a dragging uphill there and I just wasn’t able to stay motivated to really suffer up the climb all alone.

It has been a while since I did any sort of hard tempo over any length of time. Looking at it as a bit of an LT test I see that things are right about where I had assumed they would be. Happy days.