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12092018 – Ski

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I know skiing is in kilometers but my Garmin is setup in miles.. so I skied 4.1 miles or 3 loops of the 2k course of man made snow at Wirth. It was fast snow at 6:30am. 

I was surprised at the number of people out at that time. The trail is lit. A couple of the downhills were steep with turns in them. I fell 4 or 5 times and one of them was pretty hard and my hip hurts and had a small cut on it. 

It felt good to be out and trying some hills. I cant wait for some flatter stuff to be open! And to try out some skate skis!

12082018 – Ski

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2.2 miles of cross country skiing with the kids at the MN Nordic Opener. No ski passes were required so it was free fun for us! 

They had a family touring loop that was pretty good except for a steep uphill at the end! They also had a short demo loop that had a pretty good downhill on it that was a little trickier for the kids!

04152018 – Ski 

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Yes, you read that right. Skiing on April 15th. It looks like we will probably be able to ski for at least another week. The Historic April Blizzard dropped about 15 inches of snow and a second round is still dropping snow! 

Joe and I decided to join the small mass of people enjoying the 3k of groomed trails. Grooming was supposed to officially end a month ago! The Loppet is actually hosting a ski race tomorrow on the trails!

The trails had been groomed earlier in the day and we had gotten even more snow throughout the day so it was pretty sticky and I had trouble gliding. Joe was giving me some pointers and tips throughout the ski such as double poleing and tightening my pole straps. I didn’t fall at all but like I said it was pretty slow conditions. It was still a lot of fun just to be out. 

I did 4 miles in 48 minutes. Joe did a couple extra of the small loops since he is so much faster than me!

03072018 – Skiing

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I got in a rare evening ski this evening and was still on the trails at sunset! I did the man made trails and there were some definite icy patches but for the most part was well tracked and enjoyable to ski. Definitely the last ski for me on those trails this year, not sure if the schedule will allow any more skiing at all, but we’ll see. Did pretty much a 10k.