New Year's Ski

I worked yesterday and got through all of my vacation email and such, and I really wasn't excited about work today, so I decided to take a personal day and go skiing. Skiing is personal to me, right? It was a great idea! I went to pat's peak, which remains my fav mountain, and got in about four hours of skiing, which I think is kind of my limit on how long I enjoy it in a day.

I kind of overslept and when I got up at 8:30 I was trying to decide if I should go or not. But then I had taken the day off, it was going to be beautiful out, and I don't know if I'll have a lot of other opportunities. So, I decided to go, even if it was a little later than I usually like to. I left home around 10, stopped at the concord rest area for a bio break and to get an egg salad sandwich, and then arrived at the mountain around 11:30. They have a new RFID system, so in the future I can just reload my card, saving time buying tix - yay! Although I wound up parking in the second lot, the trails were really open and there wasn't any line at the lifts until around 1 or 2, and even then it was short. I really enjoyed the longer trails, and loved going down the long greens. According to my watch my longest run was over 6 minutes, and I got up to 25 MPH! My slower runs I was only going 17-20 miles max. According to online sources, that's kind of an intermediate speed, but the online sources don't know that I was on a green :)

I worked a lot on my edging, bending my knees and leaning forward, and trying to keep my body facing down the mountain. I notice that as soon as I become uncomfortable I stand up taller and snowplow my skis (like when this dude came from behind me and almost crashed into me. That was a not fun moment.) I also worked on making a shorter S pattern with my trail, rather than going back and forth across the entire path. I think that's when I started to pick up speed. 

By the end of 4 hours I was getting pretty cold and the mountain was filling up with school groups, so I headed out. The drive home was kind of stressful because there was a ton of traffic, but fortunately it's "only" an hour and 20 minutes drive, so it wasn't too bad. I'm sitting on my couch feeling pooped now!