It's definitely winter in the 'boat

The snow gods have been kind to Steamboat lately. There is enough snow to ski at the Touring Center in town now.   Although we are really lucky to be able to ski up on Rabbit Ears early in the season, it is much better to be able to ski down at "low elevation" (just  below 7000 feet).  Now we are getting rid of the high altitude sludge that we developed while training at 9000 plus feet.  To do this, we skied short and fast intervals yesterday. We did a ladder workout, starting with an all out 1 minute interval, then one for 2 minutes, 3 minutes and 4 minutes, and then back down to 1 minute, for a total of 16 minutes of interval time.  This differed from our typical interval workout of 4 min by 6 or 4, at a controlled pace just over lactate threshold.  It felt good to open up the throttle!

Now it's time to get the jumps ready.  We are going to be working on the K90 tomorrow and Saturday, and should be jumping by Tuesday.  I hope I can wait until then...