Do you run on skiing/boarding vacations? (Read 535 times)

I'm going to Vermont over New Year's for 4 days, 3 nights. Basically it's 2 full days (6-7 hours total each day) of snowboarding which I count as cross-training. The other 2 days are travel days, on which I might run easy runs. Usually, I am almost as sore after snowboarding as after running a marathon. Definitely not the same aerobic activity, but muscles get a crazy workout.  

I'm just wondering if anyone else runs during these types of vacations. I imagine it would be pretty difficult for me to run on the days I am boarding, due to the muscle soreness alone. Last winter I took off about 5 days during peak marathon training for a snowboarding trip and I think it was a nice break from the norm. 

I do, but only easy runs. I live in Charleston where it is FLAT and so the hills alone at a ski destination are enough to wipe me out if I take it too hard. I don't usually ski every day we are there, so I usually do an easy 3-4 miler on the days I ski and a longer run on the days I don't

Spend your VT time riding and drinking the top notch beers.  

Run when you are back home.  Your legs will get plenty of exercise if you ride hard all day.  

I agree, it's tough to run on a day when you're skiing/boarding hard and long.  

I've done an easy evening run on occasion (when I haven't had too many beers), but wouldn't try anything more.  

One clear still evening in the Rockies when the bottom fell out of the thermometer, I went out for a few miles in -30C just to see what it was like.  Magic! Ice crystals floating in the air, the whole sweep of the Milky Way across the sky!

I ran while on a Utah ski trip last year.  4-5 miles a day for four of the days after skiing Utah blacks all day.  Between tired legs and the high altitude, the runs were slow and a struggle.  I was in marathon training though and felt that I needed to get the miles in.    When I got home, I ramped right back up with high mileage and was promptly sidelined with an ITB issue.  I overdid.  I am headed to Colorado for a week this coming February.  Not sure what I am going to do yet for runs, if anything. 

Utah skiing rules BTW. 

I'm trying to figure this out as well.  We ski every weekend for 12 weeks, so I need find a sustainable balance between running and skiing.  Last winter, I ended running just 3 days a week during ski season.  I got in a few easy runs after skiing, but I did most of my running Mon - Fri.  This time, I am going to try to run a lot more, but I don't plan to run very much on ski days.  Even after my body gets used to skiing, my legs are still pretty well trashed after a hard day on the mountain.  If I were just doing one ski/boarding trip, I would just take a few days off.

This is me as well, except we ski during the week and not on weekends. Our ski season started at Thanksgiving and usually goes until mid April (unless it's like last year). Last winter I only ran twice a week on the weekends, this year so far I've been running three times/week (between Friday and Monday) and am hoping eventually to add a run after skiing mid week, but, at 60 yrs old, I seem to need a bit more recovery time than I used to. Just trying to come out of winter with more than the 10 miles/week I did last year.

I know it is hard to give up vertical feet and if you are paying for a lift ticket you want to use it, but with today's alpine touring gear it can be pretty fun to "earn your turns". The gear skis the downhill quite well and is close enough cross training to running that I don't worry about  a few missed runs. The boarder version is using split boards with skins or snowshoe up and board down.