Life is not a Practice

Big choice - eat lunch or go out on my race bike. I postponed lunch.

Once round the Grüntensee to warm up and then up the hill to Vorderreute and back down.

26 kms and 400 meters of climbing
Track at http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=jjabktmuojfyzoko

How our family tried to fit a life in to the weekend.



Test driving a smart. Skiing on an empty sun soaked Austrian mountain with carving skis. Nordic walking with a cappuccino to follow at the ice cream parlour. 2 race bike trips, one round the lake and one in to Austria and back. Ski teaching two days running with end of season drinks to follow in a mountain hut. 1 mountain bike trip to the frozen lake to grill at the water rescue hut. Two hours of spinning on Saturday evening followed by sparkling wine and milk shakes. One football game and one football training with friends. Photographing helicopters and planes at the local airfield.

All the pictures at https://plus.google.com/photos/103827427036815679772/albums/5988844292628011761?authkey=CKi16pbl6dGX-AE

After the amazing skiing this morning we all decided to continue to make use of the weather. Alison went nordic walking, Max went mountain biking and grilling at the lake and Jon and I cycled the 50 km in to Austria and back.



We stopped off for a coffee and parked our bikes on the "ski rack". Others were turning up on their Langlauf skis.



We cycled past the foot of the mountain we were skiing on this morning. It really is a great life.

50km and 530 meters of climbing
Track is at http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=swjxyofiksykxsxa

A mornings skiing like in a picture book. Alison, Max and I were skiing in Tannheimertal. Perfect snow, stunning weather and empty slopes. The first runs were down completely empty pistes and we could use our carving skis to their extremes.



Amazing!



max also wrote about the weekend at http://maxhogarth.blogspot.de/2014/03/weekend-83-and-93.html

Off spinning this evening so didn't want to do anything too strenuous but the sun is shining and it is 13°C in the shade so I had to go for a bike ride.

Rode round the Grüntensee but anticlockwise for a change. Also tried to avoid hills. The result was 21km with only 230 meters of climbing.

Track is at http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=dmqkhocuygfgwmrd

An hours swimming at the Alpspitz-Bade-center with max.
I managed a kilometer in the time he took for 1.6. I think I need a few years training to be as fast as him.

Saturday morning ski tour. Had to fill up the hours and KCal burnt for my training program and there are worse ways to do it than walking up a mountain, drinking a beer at the top and then skiing down.



Saw Daniel at the top busy teaching kids to ski.

Route is at http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=twrnqhkbmzvqqitv

In the afternoon I and Max went to the Trendsport center to try some shooting.



I look more like I am training to be a terrorist.

Max and I were skiing this morning in Oberjoch. Got there before the people so could have a few "crazy" runs on the lovely mix of natural and man made snow. Frighteningly fast trying to keep up with Max.



And then there was the crazy off piste routes that I was "forced" to take.

Alison and I walked up the Alpspitz with our touring skis, enjoyed a drink in Sportheim Böck at the top and then skied back down.



The route is at http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=vsyqnaielfvetdos

This evening we were indoor cycling again at the Fitness Studio in Seeg.

I managed to photograph the two "trainings" that we did last week.

This was the first hour and cost me 800kcal.


Once we were warm we did the following for an hour. 900kcal.


Full size pictures at https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/103827427036815679772/albums/5952431196196400865

This afternoon out with the race bike and just now we were skiing on the floodlit Alpspitz. Just Alison and I.



We got there at six and the slope was perfectly pisted and empty. An hour later there were more people there so we had a drink sat outside looking at the full moon rising.

15th of February and +15°
Out on my race bike getting in some training in fitness zone 2 - that is what my training plan worked out by my FT60 said I needed.

Lots of cyclists out on the roads round the Grüntensee. As it was so nice, I also included a diversion to Schwarzenberg.

24.8km with 300 meters of climbing
Track at http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=yivrnypqawdbhiwx

Swimming this morning (my Polar works underwater as well) and out skiing for an hour with Alison and Max on the Alpspitz this afternoon. Snow and sunshine within the one hour.



It really is a tough life when you can cycle, swim and ski all on the same weekend and all within 1 km of home.

First time out cycling with my new Polar heart monitor. Had to cycle slower up hill and faster down.

21km 246 meters of climbing
Route at http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=dovuzvyfjorsgxhd

The training data is saved at polarpersonaltrainer.com

Apparently to train effectively you need to train at the correct heartbeat. I have known this for ages but never got round to buying a heart rate monitor.

But now I have treated myself to a Polar FT60 so can be sure I stay at the correct level and can keep a record of how fit I get at https://polarpersonaltrainer.com/

We had some more snow during the week and it was cold enough for the snow cannons one night so today Alison and I went for an hours skiing in Nesselwang.

Great snow but very misty at the top of the mountain.

It snowed last night so Alison and I went for an hours skiing at the Alpsitz.