Flying

A ridiculously fast morning on freshly groomed trails with my ridiculously fun skijor partners!

"We are having a BLAST!!!!!" declares the happy trio waiting for me to turnaround at our
midpoint of the day's outing.

We spent the entire outing on the trails at Gold Run Nordic Center. We were thrilled to find the trails freshly groomed as we were either first or second tracks on the trails all outing long! Zorro, Jack & Rudy were in a real groove and we were flying all over the place all morning long. I could not believe how juiced these three were to floor it all day long. Come along for the fun...

It was catching air on each side of flying Zorro:

Jack & Rudy catching air as Zorro sets the speed flying down the middle of the group. Zoom!

I was riding behind flying Z when we got to a stretch of trail that weaved through the trees.

I have my right ski behind Zorro to keep pace with the trio and my left ski outside of Zorro
to maintain control. You can just make out the upcoming left weave in the trail - thus the reason
I am riding my left leg outside of the group to enter the curve. Wheeee!

We had Rudy the Flying Reindeer along for the ride this morning too:

Look - a flying reindeer!!!! Nice shot of flying Rudy with Zorro & Jack hovering on each
side of him.

We hit long open straightaways and got perfectly synchronized to launch the human along:

The synchronized trio catching air. Skijor Hovercraft :)

Come along for a "skijor minute" of today's fun. You get a little of everything in this video clip: down dips in the trail, up dips in the trail and fast/flat straightaways. There is one constant through the entire clip: the human in merely standing on the skis and the juiced trio tows me up, down and all over the place. The team was in a real groove this morning!

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I slowed at one point to check how long we had been out on the trails. It was not a stop, but Jack & Rudy felt we slowed enough to do their "we are stopped" antics :)

Rudy threw himself off trail to roll in the snow. Jack quickly followed suit and threw himself
further off trail to roll in the deeper powder. Zorro couldn't bear to watch the children's antics :)

What a ridiculously fast day on absolutely perfect trails: 7.1 miles traveled with 600 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 23 MPH. I was actually shocked the GPS did not clock us at a faster top speed, it sure felt like it!!!

2018/2019 Season to Date: 83 days on the trails covering 455.0 miles with 40,800 feet of elevation climbed.