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Who's done it? Did you like it? Advice?
i have. i love it. my advise is do it.
i see you user name and if your from NH or thereabouts here is a good site with lots of great races.
http://www.3craceproductions.com/
In order to see the truth, sometimes you have to loose an eye.
http://www.runningahead.com/groups/Utri/
Village people
i have. i love it. my advise is do it. i see you user name and if your from NH or thereabouts here is a good site with lots of great races. http://www.3craceproductions.com/
This is great! Thanks.
I am from NH and am familiar with 3C - thanks.
How did you figure out the running snowshoes? I grew up on the wooden beaver tails, worn with big insulated rubber boots, so I'm a bit overwhelmed...
ETA - I didn't realize my profile wasn't available. Not that there's much there, but I don't mind folks knowing where I am.
Here's a recent thread over in Trailer Trash group.
Until I opened this thread, I thought this was that thread.
Latent Runner
I did the Kingman Farm Moonlight (Madbury, NH) race last February, it was my first snowshoe race; thought/comments follow:
Givens:
The race:
Fat old man PRs:
I am from NH and am familiar with 3C - thanks. How did you figure out the running snowshoes? I grew up on the wooden beaver tails, worn with big insulated rubber boots, so I'm a bit overwhelmed... ETA - I didn't realize my profile wasn't available. Not that there's much there, but I don't mind folks knowing where I am.
dions are really popular. to be honest though, i have a pair of 21" red feathers(i'm 5') that i got from cabella's 3 years ago for 80 bucks and they work fine for me. i just use my cascadias for footwear with a pair of dirty girls to keep the snow out of my feet. here are the dions...
http://www.snowshoegear.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64:dion-121-racing-snowshoe-review&catid=37:gear-review&Itemid=60
Running Chick
thanks for posting. every winter, our beautiful bikepath is covered in snow; and is not plowed. and every winter, i think this is the year i figure out how to use snowshoes. so thank you for posting this - i will be following and thinking about this as the first snow falls. who knows? i may be a convert! thanks again.
Sounds like a great race Shipo. Sounds not all that far off my first summer trail race, to tell the truth! When I lived in Durham I frequently walked my dogs over at Kingman, so I've got a pretty good idea of the terrain. And I live close enough to do reconnaissance...
Speaking of excess weight, the FAQs I'm finding on the racing snowshoes pretty much just push smallest possible, but I have to think the recommendations would be different for 130lbs and 200lbs, right?
Sounds like a great race Shipo. Sounds not all that far off my first summer trail race, to tell the truth! When I lived in Durham I frequently walked my dogs over at Kingman, so I've got a pretty good idea of the terrain. And I live close enough to do reconnaissance... Speaking of excess weight, the FAQs I'm finding on the racing snowshoes pretty much just push smallest possible, but I have to think the recommendations would be different for 130lbs and 200lbs, right?
Cool that you live so close by, I wish I'd reconned the course before I ran it, I would have been better prepared for what they term "gently rolling hills".
As for weight, I haven't seen any recommendations at all so you're ahead of me on that count. When I got into this earlier this year I was somewhere in the 220 weight range, I bought a set of Dion Model 132 snowshoes (the yellow ones) for training, and for my one (and so far only) race I rented a set of Dion Model 121 racing snowshoes (the white ones). While my weight didn't seem to be too much of a factor on the flat, when I was climbing that mother of a hill in the woods, yeah, being so darned heavy was beyond a challenge; geez were my legs and lungs burning when I got to the top.