J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by andymol2

How much should you drink depends on how much you lose through sweating and insensible loss through breathing.
Measuring your weight before and after exercise gives a clue - 1L of water weighs 1Kg and only a small amount of weight loss will be fat/food.

Altitude, temperature and level of exertion are factors that affect this for the individual. Some will seat buckets others relativley little.

Another clue can come from the urine - if it's straw coloured it's likely to be dilute enough. If it looks like water you are probably offloading excess fluid and if it's dark it implies it's concentrated (but may also be influenced by chemicals that can pass through and colour the urine so can't be an absolute yardstick)

If you seem to be urinating as much and as often as when at home you are probably drinking enough.

For many skiing is relatively hard physical work but not for all and is generally sustained over a day unlike most sporting activity, gym session or training run.

Remember there is a multi-million Pound market in rehydration liquids that are of limited benefit and most have no scientific evidence to support the claims for their product.

Was Anna Kornikova ranked as number one doubles player for a while. And a bit harsh considering her career was ended by injury aged 21 according to Wikipedia!

As for skiing isn't everyone an also ran compared to Lindsay Vonn in Chemmi's era?

Positives - large area and range of pistes with something to suite all abilities. When there's plenty of snow there's a lot of skiing.
Morzine town is more than just a ski resort that's shut for the rest of the year.

Negatives - quite low so can get warm and slushy. A number of the runs down off the mountain can get very busy, compounded by many of these runs being roads and thus narrow.
Extending to the wider Portes Du Soleil area I would describe Avoriaz as over-developed and thus overcrowded, particularly when the weather is warm and the lower pistes have come to the end of their season.

Swingbeep - I misread your posting - took me a while to work out how a support bra would help!

If I were a beginner I'd go to Andorra - good standard of instruction, may are Brits.
Pas de La Casa if you want it lively or Soldeu for quieter (and probably quieter skiing)

Courmayeur in Italy is another option.

I guess there would have to be big changes in the political climate if it's to become a major international ski destination.

Time off work isn't the be all and end all providing you can get the time to do the rehab and your work doesn't put the graft in jeopardy. Some things like driving are going to be painful and unsafe for the first couple of weeks until you can do an emergency stop without hesitation.

I'd be wary about slithering around in the mud at Glastonbury 4 weeks or so after an ACL reconstruction - walking around a field in nice weather fine, dancing iffy but as it's Glastonbury you will be likely to be slipping on mud at a time when your knee will be far from full strength and the graft relatively weak because it won't have developed its blood supply.

Got to say the Pyrenees have had an epic year. I went to Andorra in Feb & there was tons of snow.
Let's hope the this is repeated all over next season.