{"id":2791,"date":"2019-03-19T18:10:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T18:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisrivard.com\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2019-03-19T18:10:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T18:10:24","slug":"moderately-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/moderately-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderately Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mentally going through the transitions for Saturdays skimo race and I realize I’m going to be sloooowwww in a couple places. I’m using Volkl skin pin Colltex skins, so I can’t leave my skis on and pull the skins in a transition. I just didn’t want to spend more $$ to buy race skins that have a standard tip attachment. I’m going to need to pull my skis off and remove the skins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m also going to leave my leashes on — it would be a nightmare scenario of I removed the leashes and a ski got away from me during a transition. That would be a big bummer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m just thinking: slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Deliberate motions, focus on what I’m doing. I’m only racing myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skin to bootpack<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Put poles down or in snow<\/li>
  2. Unclip leashes<\/li>
  3. Pop off bindings (thumbs)<\/li>
  4. Skis together<\/li>
  5. Through loop, hook over shoulder<\/li>
  6. Grab poles, hammer<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Bootpack to skin <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Poles down<\/li>
    2. Skis off pack<\/li>
    3. Clip leashes (one at a time)<\/li>
    4. Step into binding<\/li>
    5. Pull binding for uphill mode<\/li>
    6. Grab poles, hammer<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Skin to downhill<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      1. Use pole to unclip bindings <\/li>
      2. Poles down<\/li>
      3. Unclip leashes <\/li>
      4. Downill skin 1 : pull skin and put in jacket<\/li>
      5. Twist heel for downill and step in<\/li>
      6. Uphill skin 2 : pull skin and put in jacket <\/li>
      7. Twist heel for downill and step in<\/li>
      8. Grab poles : hammer<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        Downhill to skin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        1. Use pole to unclip binding<\/li>
        2. Poles down<\/li>
        3. Pull skin 1 from jacket \/ put it on<\/li>
        4. Twist heel for uphill <\/li>
        5. Put ski down<\/li>
        6. Pull skin 2 from jacket \/ put it on<\/li>
        7. Twist heel for uphill<\/li>
        8. Put ski down<\/li>
        9. Step into both skis<\/li>
        10. Pull binding for uphill<\/li>
        11. Pick up poles : hammer<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Mentally going through the transitions for Saturdays skimo race and I realize I’m going to be sloooowwww in a couple places. I’m using Volkl skin pin Colltex skins, so I can’t leave my skis on and pull the skins in a transition. I just didn’t want to spend more $$ to buy race skins that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sartor-resartus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}