45 unexciting minutes on the trainer followed by some kettlebell deadlifts, lunges and stretching. All of that before making waffles and heading to church to celebrate Easter. No joke!
Most of the snow from yesterday melted, but no reason to risk it. Any of the shaded areas still have snow and I don’t think the Parks plowed so I’m sure it’s a little messy out there. And we are getting more this week.
I woke up and did 36 minutes on the Bike Trainer in the morning and some stretching afterwards. I watched a few TED Talks and just ended the ride after the 3rd one. At least for now it is mostly just easy spinning to get the blood pumping. At some point I’ll need to be getting in some longer rides.
In the afternoon we went to the Minneapolis Bouldering Project and I climbed some routes and played with the kids. We usually just push around some medicine balls and play with some of the lightweights. They have 2.5# dumbbells and some similar weighted kettlebells. This week we tried out the battle ropes and lifting the medicine balls like atlas stones. Check out my son’s strongman lifting on my Instagram! I also did some pull-up work while we were there.
We got a snow day today! Hard to believe. I hit the bike trainer this morning while the kids played upstairs!
I did 45 minutes on the trainer while catching up on some TED videos. Then I did some stretching before a short 21-15-9 with my 53# kettlebell. Russian Swings and deadlifts. I finished the short workout in 3:13.
Winter Fat Bike Trail riding is tough! I rode the Back 40 trails at Theodore Wirth. The trails were pretty well packed at this point. It is a different animal than regular trail riding, with the cold being a big part of it.
It was hard to figure out how much to wear and I think I ended up wearing too much (3 thermal top layers with a fleece vest) and I was sweaty by the end. But my face was really cold riding over to the trails and my toes (in hiking boots) got really cold too. My hands stayed warm in my SealSkin mittens I was wearing some liners but they didn’t work well with the mittens so I took them off and my hands were still a little sweaty.
Overall the trails were great! A few short sections were rutted. And one difference is that the trails can be pretty narrow with where the snow has been packed. This made it a little harder, at least for me.
I wouldn’t mind actually owning a fat bike and getting into shape and riding more often. I’m thankful I got to borrow a nice Trek Farley to test it out!
4.4 miles in about an hour. I did get one segment PR, which is a little odd, but I think it was on a section I normally have to stop and carry over an obstscle, but the snow buried the obstacle! My time was almost 15 seconds faster than my fastest!
I did 40 minutes on the bike trainer watching some TED videos. I did some single leg pedaling mixed in. Those are hard by the way!
Then I did 2 rounds of 10 each of
Pushups
Situps
Squats
Hanging pulls.
During the kid’s ski lessons I went for a ski on some icy trails. The natural ski trails especially Skyline Trail was super icy and a few patches of grass showing. The man made snow loops were in great shape and I had a nice ski hitting 21 mph on one of the downhill!
The skyline from the Skyline trail!