another week of almost nothing
CONGRADULATIONS EVA RODANSKY! WOMEN’S US 10,000 METER RECORD HOLDER!
my buddy eva just smashed the US women’s 10k record by 17 seconds! go eva! women rarely skate the 10k, but some fast ones have tried.
I will never forget my own experience doing a 10k, I hammered and hammered in the crosswinds of lake placid. I gave it my all, my legs just about gave out with the effort, and then I look up and see that I still had 18 lapsto go! (a 10k is 25).. never again!! Eva is a stud.
I spoke with one of my coaches on the phone last night, and confessed to him that I had spent the whole evening on the couch, eating nutella.. and going nuts about barely working out!! and could I please start up this week!1
he said that what I am feeling is just about right, and please could I endure one more week of low key inactivity! now my coach does not want me to completely turn into a blob, but whatever I do physically needs to be super low key and fun…
There is the rest of the year to train hard.. and if eating nutella on the couch in march will make me go faster in december during olympic trials, then a guy has to do what a guy has to do!!…
However it is hard for me to be a completely inactive fellow, so to avoid chewing my own fingers off, or fates worse (like a television induced coma) I went for an easy 45 minute XC ski. It was sloppy snow, but the tracks were hard and fast….. I find XC skiing a gentle, full body sport, with endless variety of terrain and experience, and bout as far from speedskating as I can get. kicking and gliding through the woods calmed my mind today… although I did not take this pic, there is something about the scrub brush dark scrabble nature of these woods in this pic that says “upstate NY” to me.. ahhh home…
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