We traveled to beautiful Silverstar BC for the first NorAms of the year. What can I say about this weekend…
1 - Silverstar is BEAUTIFUL, LIKE SO BEAUTIFUL, YOU CAN’T UNDERSTAND, SO GOD DAMN BEAUTIFUL! Silverstar is ski paradise, you’ve never seen such perfectly snow-coated trees and such colourful houses. I wish everyone could experience silverstar, and I absolutely love that we come here before Christmas. This term is incredibly overused, but if there ever was a winter wonderland, this would be it. It’s one of those places that can put me in a great mood just because of the scenery.
Sometimes I reflect on race locations and rate them as which are my favourite places to do my morning / evening walks and jogs. I get into the habit of going for a post dinner walk and a pre-breakfast jog on race morning. I usually end up doing these really early before the sun, or anyone else is up, and it is always quiet and peaceful and I just get to take in my surroundings. Well Silverstar is #1 on my pre-breakfast jog locations list!
1 - Silverstar is BEAUTIFUL, LIKE SO BEAUTIFUL, YOU CAN’T UNDERSTAND, SO GOD DAMN BEAUTIFUL! Silverstar is ski paradise, you’ve never seen such perfectly snow-coated trees and such colourful houses. I wish everyone could experience silverstar, and I absolutely love that we come here before Christmas. This term is incredibly overused, but if there ever was a winter wonderland, this would be it. It’s one of those places that can put me in a great mood just because of the scenery.
Sometimes I reflect on race locations and rate them as which are my favourite places to do my morning / evening walks and jogs. I get into the habit of going for a post dinner walk and a pre-breakfast jog on race morning. I usually end up doing these really early before the sun, or anyone else is up, and it is always quiet and peaceful and I just get to take in my surroundings. Well Silverstar is #1 on my pre-breakfast jog locations list!
Woah, that was a lot more than I intended to say about that, did I mention I really love being in Silverstar?
2- It was frigid! with temperatures hovering between -20 and -30 all weekend. The cutoff temp at which races are cancelled is -20, and we were right on the brink of that all weekend.
After much deliberation I decided to race Staurday’s 10km skate. I made the mistake of spending too much time trying to decide whether I should race or not, and not enough time warming up. I felt pretty crappy on my first lap of 5k – my legs felt tired and heavy. I started feeling better on my second lap and pushed much better around the course. I finished 9th Senior women and 3rd U23. It was the kind of race I knew I couldn’t expect a great result from based on how I felt. So that was that. Great race by Heidi Widmer who took the overall win!
Sunday was a classic sprint on a course that I reeaaallly like and that I was really excited to race on. Unfortunately I woke up feeling sick, so made the call to not race. Mentally I was so prepared and excited for this race, but my body was telling me no. I think I made the right decision, and instead of racing I got to go for a beautiful easy classic ski. That was super nice because usually when you show up for a race weekend, you only get to ski the race course and don’t really have the opportunity to explore the trails.
Saturdays skate 10km results
http://zone4.ca/results.asp?ID=6132&cat=1227
Sunday was a classic sprint on a course that I reeaaallly like and that I was really excited to race on. Unfortunately I woke up feeling sick, so made the call to not race. Mentally I was so prepared and excited for this race, but my body was telling me no. I think I made the right decision, and instead of racing I got to go for a beautiful easy classic ski. That was super nice because usually when you show up for a race weekend, you only get to ski the race course and don’t really have the opportunity to explore the trails.
Saturdays skate 10km results
http://zone4.ca/results.asp?ID=6132&cat=1227