Canmore update
· Fri Aug 8, 11:21 PM by Timothy M. Weston
What day is it again? I think it is Friday, since the Olympics started today. We’ve got CBC up here, which means we should get to watch a lot of the good stuff.
Since the last update, we had an easy Thursday morning which included a few hours of shopping and relaxing in downtown Canmore. In the afternoon, we traveled to Banff to do a “surprise” workout. Now I’ve only been with BSF for a couple of years, but one thing I’ve noticed is that whenever Dragan calls a workout a ‘surprise’, it usually seems to mean ‘time-trial’. Not to disappoint, the pattern continued. Some of the athletes had a hard time believing that we were serious about doing a time trial. You’d think that they would have picked up on it by now — at least the older kids! “Surprise” = “time-trial”. Now the cat is finally out of the bag.
The time-trial was at a big tourist destination — a moderate sized mountain (~7500’) just a mile or so from downtown Banff. A gondola runs up to the summit, where one can see 360’ views of the mountains and valleys all around the area. I rode the gondola up so that I could record finish times. As I purchased my round-trip ticket, I asked about one-way tickets so the kids could ride down after a hard workout. This was around 4:45pm. The lady said something like, “well, if you leave now, it usually takes about 1.5 – 2 hours to hike up. By that time, it is free to ride the gondola down.” I informed her that I wasn’t hiking up myself, but the kids that were would not need a couple of hours to ascend 2400’ over ~5.6km.
The workout/time-trial went very well. Times were anywhere from 35 to 51 minutes. J2’s simply went as far as they could in 45’, which turned out to be all the way to the summit for many. The J3’s went for 30 minutes, and stayed right with the older kids for that length of time. Some of the tourists were very impressed and cheered for the kids as the finished.
Last night, we went in to town to support Dairy Queen. They were giving all proceeds from sales of their Blizzard™ to Children’s Hospitals or something.
Today we started with an easy run from the condos. We are bringing radios and bear-spray along on the workouts out in the woods, and we are glad that we haven’t had to do anything beyond testing the sprays.
Midday we went on another grocery run, and ran into the Bozeman Climbing Team in the parking lot. Small world.
This afternoon was our first session on skate skis, again just low intensity, beginning from the condos.
Kate and Erika (wo)manned the grill for us this evening, despite a bit of rain and thunder and lightning. Lots more to eat, more cake, more nutella, more coca-cola, and the opening ceremonies are finally over so now we get to watch the Olympics!
Tomorrow, we’re back to the grind with a skate workout at the Nordic Centre, followed by easy jogging in the afternoon. Stay tuned for more…red leader out.
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