We spent the weekend in Park City, where I finally learned how to cross country ski. I’m not sure that I’ve mastered the lingo, but I think they call what I did “skating.” I was shown the V1, V2, and V2 Alternate methods of skating. I figured out an additional method on my own; they called it “wimp skiing.” I was far from good at any of them, but I was least-bad at the V1.

I was surprised that the skis were so light. They don’t have metal edges, so that’s probably a big part of the reason they are so light. But they’re also very thin, which made it difficult for me to balance. I think I crashed about 10 times, with at least 3 of them being pretty hard. I even ran over my hand a couple times.

It was a lot of fun.

Cross-Country Ski:
5000m in about 90 minutes (I know, I’m slow)