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Targets for the season

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:45:33 GMT

Apologies if this has already been done, but what are everyone's targets for this forthcoming season ( ski targets naturally)

I'll get us started in that i want to land a 360 this season, and try and get more then 6 days in skiing!

Other to you lot....

Re:Targets for the season

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:50:32 GMT

60 days snowboarding and 2400km of downhill.

Re:Targets for the season

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:50:45 GMT

1. To ski 3 weeks
2. To continue to avoid injury
3. To continue to get better each time I go
4. To get Stewart Dowling on the Sacre Chair in ADH
5. To see Posh stay in the Championship

Re:Targets for the season

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:00:50 GMT

Just to enjoy skiing with my family

Re:Targets for the season

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:04:37 GMT

20 days and to stay upright in deep powder for more than 50 meters. :lol:

Re:Targets for the season

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:12:49 GMT

Going away for only two weeks this year, in those two weeks I planning to have one day ski touring which should improve offpiste skills & am also planning to learn how to telemark.
As always Looking forward to skiing with OH & our kids.

Finn

Re:Targets for the season

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:20:34 GMT

snowb4ndit wrote:to stay upright in deep powder for more than 50 meters. :lol:

Thats the best one yet, and something to seriously aspire to.

Re:Targets for the season

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:17:11 GMT

tino_11 wrote:60 days snowboarding and 2400km of downhill.

Apologies for quoting myself but didn't know where else to post this.

I was 400 metres short of 10,000 metres of vertical today according to Skiline,..... 400 poxy metres!!! I would have dragged myself up that last 400m by my teeth in the dark at minus 50oC had I known. I did push up my average downhill distance to 38km though (with a 52km day), which places me just below target for 2,400 for the season, assuming I can get the time, money or whatever to complete.

Re:Targets for the season

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:07:15 GMT

Tino, If distance is a target, you are doing it the tough way. I know you do weekends, so Saturday is a good day, (depending on resort), because it is changeover day, and there are few recreational skiers. OTOH, there is a lot of club and league racing and race training going on.

Sundays, though are deathly, since this is first day back on skis for many folk.

Do you find that you are getting the best milage when you get to know a run really well?

Re:Targets for the season

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:42:06 GMT

tino_11 wrote:

tino_11 wrote:60 days snowboarding and 2400km of downhill.

Apologies for quoting myself but didn't know where else to post this.

I was 400 metres short of 10,000 metres of vertical today according to Skiline,..... 400 poxy metres!!! I would have dragged myself up that last 400m by my teeth in the dark at minus 50oC had I known. I did push up my average downhill distance to 38km though (with a 52km day), which places me just below target for 2,400 for the season, assuming I can get the time, money or whatever to complete.

That's been a good shift Tino, wait until the daylight hours extend the ski lift opening times to 16:30 and you will easily pass your target. Good effort.

Finn

Re:Targets for the season

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:38:20 GMT

To meet a few other J2Ski members in ADH and have one of the best weeks ever. :D

Re:Targets for the season

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:44:49 GMT

Andyhull, I like this.
I think I would also have the same target.

Would like to also get a real confident feeling on the skis with the aid of some lessons (which are booked)

Re:Targets for the season

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:49:32 GMT

Mine is to ski every single run in Les Houches, where we're off to on 2nd January.

I've skiied there twice before on my first & second weeks, and by the end of week 2 was only managing the wide reds.

There are only 2 black runs there, both very steep - one was the 2006 World Championship downhill run, my husband attempted it when it had been race prepared and slid down the top section on his arse!

So to ski the lot is a big challenge for me.

Re:Targets for the season

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:12:08 GMT

mine are to a land a stylish 360 but wont be trying this until much later in the season-not going to injure myself in Jan!!
Id also like to sucessfully ski the offpiste bits in Bormio without getting fined by the polizia......

Re:Targets for the season

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:05:28 GMT

If I land a 360, it will be totally by accident! :D

Re:Targets for the season

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:26:52 GMT

Dave Mac wrote:Tino, If distance is a target, you are doing it the tough way. I know you do weekends, so Saturday is a good day, (depending on resort), because it is changeover day, and there are few recreational skiers. OTOH, there is a lot of club and league racing and race training going on.

Sundays, though are deathly, since this is first day back on skis for many folk.

Do you find that you are getting the best milage when you get to know a run really well?

I usually do the day in 3 stints.

1. Find a set of linked runs I like and bomb them for 2 hours.

have a wee gluwein

2. Head for the furthest point I can get too

have a wee beer

3. Head back against the clock, and if I have time do a couple of low level lifts late on

This only works well in big resorts and not on limited area glaciers. That beig said my biggest day was in Zermatt with 55km and that was done mainly using 1 lift.

Re:Targets for the season

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:08:07 GMT

My targets are very simple:

a) Not to get hurt
b) Not to hurt anyone else
c) Not to get lost

Other than that, as long as I'm ski-ing I know I will have a good time :D.

Ally

Re:Targets for the season

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:57:07 GMT

My targets

~to improve on piste
~to improve off piste
~to improve mucking about around the trees
~to not loose my bottle - ever again
~to get three weeks in

Re:Targets for the season

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:50:31 GMT

Snow Trailer- Ruka-Pyha ski resort movie from Ruka & Pyha Ski Resorts on Vimeo.

Just to be able to enjoy some of these slopes

Re:Targets for the season

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:52:11 GMT

Help, how do I put my link up without all the rubbish writing :lol:

Now sorted

Re:Targets for the season

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:02:54 GMT

Hi Rose,
I could get the link to work,without all the writing. Why can't you just delete it? Or was it doing something else as well?

I'm the last person to be able to tell you how to do something complicated like this - as I said, it took me 10 goes to get my first photo up!

:D

Ally

Re:Targets for the season

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:21:14 GMT

CLC wrote:My targets

~to improve on piste
~to improve off piste
~to improve mucking about around the trees
~to not loose my bottle - ever again
~to get three weeks in

Be carefull CLC, this is what keeps you alive.

Never lose it, just seek to understand it. As humans we have lost our sense for impending danger, we think that we can think our way out, your instict (bottle) is your best friend and has saved you many more times than you can possibly remember.

Re:Targets for the season

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:36:13 GMT

Hi Tino

Sound advice! Hopefully if I can improve here and there my instinct won't kick in too often!

Re:Targets for the season

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:41:32 GMT

My target for this season..
Learn how to ski off-piste most likely with getting lessons :)
I long that feeling I keep hearing about on and off here, floating in soft powder.

Re:Targets for the season

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:49:35 GMT

My targets for the season,

To try and ski more than the one week

To try and ski in Scotland (which I haven't done for 20 years)

To try and let myself go on the ski's a bit more (without endangering myself or anyone else)

and lastly to have a few lessons which I haven't done since I was 15