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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two): My CrossFit Open 15.3...A Yawnfest

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two). Photo by Steve Penland. Saturday, March 14, 2015. My CrossFit Open 15.3.A Yawnfest. It just made me bored. Sure, there are letdowns, like my "spend nine minutes to get four T2B" Open WOD 15.1 debacle.but there have been many more times when I've surprised myself and done something I hadn't thought possible- and while I realize that for most people competitions are more about "how fast can I do this? Than "can I do this at all? WOD's- if I could just get a tiny.

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two): This is NOT the Post I Wanted to be Writing Today

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two). Photo by Steve Penland. Tuesday, August 26, 2014. This is NOT the Post I Wanted to be Writing Today. Instead of writing about any of these things, though, I need to write about this:. I've soared to new heights in the "cover yourself. Yes, those are my legs, my ace bandage, my immobilizer, my crutches. Damn" doesn't even begin to cover it. Then I started set five. So as I completed the second lap of the four lap set I was thinking about what my skates were doing&#4...

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two): July 2015

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two). Photo by Steve Penland. Saturday, July 4, 2015. Don't Take it for Granite. Which leads me to the bad pun in this post's title. Turns out that taking qualifying for granted was very premature. This year, the Granite Games folks have upped their advertising campaign and the end result is that there are now 81 competitors in my age class, from as far away as Tasmania (that's in Australia, apparently). And these old chicks are good. Is not conducive to maximum speed.

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two): Short Week

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two). Photo by Steve Penland. Thursday, December 13, 2012. It's been a short week of skating, and it looks like the odds are about 50/50 that it will get even shorter. I got cold and slow. So I quit a bit early, but it was a good skate. We just got 15 inches last Sunday (why, yes, yes I am. Sick of the phrase "Winter Wonderland," why do you ask? Although, to be honest, it is. December 14, 2012 at 10:46 AM. You have snow up there? December 14, 2012 at 4:52 PM. As for raci...

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two): Granite Games Sectionals part 3: Drop it Low--On One Leg

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two). Photo by Steve Penland. Saturday, June 28, 2014. Granite Games Sectionals part 3: Drop it Low- On One Leg. Last winter, the Hubster and I stood in an ice arena parking lot talking to some friends after a women's broomball game the Hubster had coached. One of the women was dancing around to someone's radio, and her boyfriend made a comment about "dropping it low." When I responded with a puzzled look and a "huh? Now try it on one leg. This is what is called a "pisto...

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two): This Winter Blows

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two). Photo by Steve Penland. Saturday, March 1, 2014. It is March first. It is zero degrees, with -18 windchill. It's also the last weekend of the 2013-14 long track skating season here in Minnesota. At the end of the 2011-12 season I was moved to poetry. At the end of the 2012-13 season I did a boring bullet-point recap of the season's highs and lows. OkI now present to you my Ode to the Season of 2013-14: This Winter Blows. I can't feel my fingers. I can't feel my toes.

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two): Race Report and Skate Test

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two). Photo by Steve Penland. Thursday, June 14, 2012. Race Report and Skate Test. I had managed to resist the urge to have their inaugural skate be the Baxter Inline Half Marathon, but these beauties. I packed up the above skates- stock Bont Cheetahs with 4x100mm wheels- as well as my "usual" skates, custom Bont Apaches with 4x90mm wheels,. And then my "old setup,". I figured I'd do the test in this order:. 3 New Cheetahs with 4x100's and new bearings. That's almost 3 s...

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two): 15.2--Short and Sweet

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two). Photo by Steve Penland. Saturday, March 7, 2015. 152- Short and Sweet. After 15.1's "nine minutes to achieve four toes-to-bar" debacle, 15.2 was looking mercifully short. In fact, I was pretty sure it would take me just three minutes. 152 looked like this:. For as long as possible:. 10 overhead squats (95 / 65 lb.). 12 overhead squats (95 / 65 lb.). 14 overhead squats (95 / 65 lb.). Etc, following same pattern. Well, pretty sure anyway. March 8, 2015 at 8:17 PM.

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two): Go Get 'em, Sharon!

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The Long Track Life (and a WOD or two). Photo by Steve Penland. Saturday, October 27, 2012. Go Get 'em, Sharon! I had intended to do a post about the stuff I learned in the Salt Lake Masters Camp (which was a lot), and about my plans for the upcoming ice season (which at present don't exist). But I just can't quite figure out what I want to say, and so I won't say anything. At least about that. Fortunately there are more fun things to write about. My blog friend Sharon, of Speed Skating Mom. I just kept ...