So, when the weather is odd and you go for a run, it just means that the weather is odd. Well, when the snow is odd and you're trying to ski race, everyone freaks out. The snow was bizarre at Great Glen today for the penultimate week of Nordic Meisters. Not that conditions aren't good—the skiing is really good—but the surface has frozen, thawed and refrozen a number of times making it coarse. The tracks themselves were a strange granular, hard pack, icy mix. Then throw a little fresh snow on the top. Keep in mind that waxes are made to work on a specific type of snow at a specific temperature. Well, today there were 6 different types of snow with rising temperatures. It was funky.
I ended up using binder wax and a warmish hard wax. It was slipping a bit during my warmup, so I added a warmer wax on top. It made the kick marginally better, but unfortunately, made my skis really drag. I have no idea how the kick can't improve much, but the skis can drag a lot. Anyway, I didn't have great skis.
The good news was that a couple of the fast people didn't show up this week, so I moved up to 5th. I was tired from yesterday's run, but I skied pretty strong. Not a great result, not a bad result, but a solid one. One more week to go.
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