XC skiing

Yesterday Bill, Cory, and I headed out to Kettle Moraine State park for some XC skiing. Lets just get a few things straight, Bill has never skied, I have only been once and Cory was leading the pack with a whopping 2 outings, you got to give it to him he is racing after all!
Anyway we rented some skis from the Back Yard Bike Shop and were off. We planned on hitting an easy trail just to get the feel of things and naturally didn't look at a map to find where the easy trail was. We started and the XC trail looked more like a down hill trail with out the lifts to get back up! We all did our part making craters in the trail, the groomer is going to have his work cut out for him to smooth the trail again! After we survived that loop we looked at the map and found the easy loop we had initially intended to go on...it happened to be exactly opposite direction that we went to the first trail. By the end of the day we logged a total of around 5.5 miles in 2:03 hours. Anyway one with a math background will tell you that is 2.7 mph average...ouch I could walk faster!
Oh well it was fun and was a good workout. I think I am going to try to get over there once a week.
I would like to say riding has been slim, but not the case. It has been too cold to ride outside so all of it has been on the trainer. It has been pretty boring but after a couple weeks you learn ways to pass the time. My favorite is trying to get the sweat running off my head to hit the headset bolt, if it hits just right it makes a cool splash!
Christmas is this weekend and it will be nice to have a couple days off work and off riding.