Sunday, January 28, 2018

Weekend Cross-training, Injury, Junk Food

Home after a weekend of downhill ski cross-training and junk food.  And an injury.

Here's the skinny on the injury:
Rode for 90 minutes on a FAT bike.  The snow was too slushy to ride in so I hit the dirt roads in Charlevoix County.  It was really, really nice, except for the ice.  I surmised that riding ice with five inch tires (without metal studded tires) is a lot like riding in sand with two inch tires - hold the wheel straight and don't turn. 
Long story short, hold the wheel straight and don't turn on ice works really well until you turn.  Then you go down.  On the ice.  With your full body weight hitting your elbow producing a 4-5 inch hematoma.  And a very shore shoulder. But nothing in broken, and I'm pretty sure this isn't going to slow me down much. Monday morning will tell me more.



As for the skiing….really awesome, especially Friday night with 40 degrees and good snow.  Being with the M-K group was AWESOME!  Jon, we missed you but somehow your weekend at Tahoe was probably an OK consolation prize.  And SJCK is a bomber that is hard to follow....so fast!

Junk food diet: all I can say is it is good that the Skitacular only happens once a year when it comes to the diet portion of the weekend.  So. Much. Junk.

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