Twenty Four intrepid bounders discovered the opposite of comedy* last night and pulled off nearly 30 reps with modest recovery and good technical improvements. A strange (perhaps) note was that nearly everyone was better technically without poles than with. Poles tend to allow one to cheat and sit back. You will notice on the photo's http://www.flickr.com/photos/incomp/ that many sit back with poles and transfer weight forward better W/O them.
Check out Steve's "tired" HRM strip. Click on it to expand the image. Note the "up" angle of the heart rate and the more gradual recovery slope (or time interval) In an ideal world the line would go up slowly and recover fast (down) What do you see? Very cool.
Next week I would like to address the sitting back issue when using poles as well as decrease the recovery interval and some of the power sets....yea I know, you'll love it. We need to increase the breath intensity and control better as well. When you can control breathing your power delivery improves considerably. You can get more rhythm in your skiing by going to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo-qweh7nbQ and to answer the burning question as to the Black Klister you need to go to http://www.rodewax.it/Klister.html and check out the Rode Nera. It had Pine Tar in it which made it look black and smell nice.
Last night was the the best of the efforts and as we enter week 5 things are coming along. Be ready to go at 5:27pm next week and be sure to get out and run/rollerski/bike to get those hours up. The next 8 weeks should be the peak for skiers before snow. Check out http://www.skinnyski.com/ for early snow reports.
* The opposite of comedy...............gravity!
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