Skiing Blackbirds: Not So Indestructible After All Yeah. That title is actually in reference to a couple of things that happened this past weekend, in which yours truly, Raven J. Blackbird, was brought down from the soaring heights to the cold reality of the pavement. Or, in this case, the snow. N and I drove up to
Workout logs Workout Log: 23 - 26 January 2017 [Updated] Since there's no way to indicate if a post has been updated if I just go back and edit it, now that I'm back from Telluride and have the GPS data from my skiing days, I'm just making a separate post. Day 1: track 1 | track 2 The relevant numbers
Skiing Workout Log: 23 - 26 January 2017 Three days of skiing in Telluride, which has a base altitude of 8500 feet and a peak of over 12,500 (higher if you do the hike-to terrain at the top of Palmyra Peak). I don't have the GPS data from my watch yet, because the dongle required to get
Skiing Workout Log: 13 - 22 January 2017 For reasons that will become apparent in a future post, I've lost a bit of focus in the last couple of weeks. I can't remember if I went to the gym on the 13th or not. Here's the rest. 14 January 2017: cardio I did a training run from my
Workout logs Workout Log (n' stuff): 23-25 December 2016 Some people go home for the holidays, but blackbirds go skiing. As with previous ski trips, I tried to use various mechanisms to capture speed and distance and vertical feet, and once again they all gave substantially different results, although at least I can report that all of the EpicMix
Workout logs Workout Log: 23 November 2016 Updated 26 November. Opening day of the 2016 ski season for Northstar and Heavenly! I hesitate to call this a "workout" because there wasn't much in the way of strenuous activity involved, but even on the beginner trails (there's nothing else open yet) it's possible to get a
