Saturday, February 22, 2020

Bridge Crossing

Fun clip of the trio towing me across a bridge on the groomed Blue River Recreation Path connecting Breckenridge, CO to Frisco, CO.
Over the bridge we go - wheeee!
As the intro above implies, we skijored the Blue River Recreation Path today. This is a bike & jogging trail in the Spring, Summer and Fall but is then transformed into a beautiful groomed trail in the Winter. We started the day with the skijor trio and took off on the fast groomed trail:
I'm pretty sure all 12 feet are off the ground here although Jack's feet are
somewhat obscured, I am pretty certain they are all off the ground like
Zorro and Rudy :)
The nice thing about the rec path, for Zorro, is that there are lots of points where the path intersects with perpendicular roads. As a result, we have many opportunities to drop elder Zorro of with Nancy while continuing on to give the youngsters, Jack & Rudy, more exercise. We dropped Zorro with Nancy at the first road intersection this morning and then I continued and out & back on the rec path with the kids.

The rec path parallels the Blue River on one side and Highway 9 (between Breckenridge and Frisco) on the other side. A few times the path swerves close enough to the highway for cars to see my pals towing me quickly along the trail. We always get approving honks or cheers from open windows and frequently see people hanging out the windows with phones videoing us!
Flying along the fast groomie zoomie as we entertain all the oncoming
cars to our right.
While the many intersections give us option to drop and/or add Zorro in the team, it also causes us to stop frequently (I have to take my skis off to cross the road). I am pretty fast and putting the ski off and on, but not fast enough for Jack & Rudy. A stop is a stop...
The conjoined snow angel twins at it again. If you can tell which legs
are Jack's and which are Rudy's, I'm impressed :)
After an extended out & back on the rec path to exercise Jack & Rudy, we had the opportunity to load Zorro back in the team again for a sprint to the finish:
LOVE the smiles on all the faces!!!!
Today's video highlight is unique in that is shows our skijor over a bridge. Come along as we cruise by Nancy in the start of the clip and then cross the bridge cautiously but still quickly until we come out the other side to floor it to the finish.
[watch on youtube if no video loads below]

Finally, some well-earned 'end of run' pork treats to celebrate the day's fun outing:
"Ready! Dish them out!" says the focused trio.
A fun trail where we have many options to drop & add Zorro in & out of the team to give him a gentle outing while I add distance to exercise the kids: 6.9 miles traveled with 400 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 20 MPH.

2019/2020 Season to Date: 103 days on the trails covering 701.0 miles with 64,500 feet of elevation climbed. Oh boy - we've surpassed 700 miles of skijoring for the season. 700 and counting!!!

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