Saturday, it was time to head back to the Nordic centre today to see if we could improve on last weeks effort, over the years we have seen an igloo which is just outside the lodge and today we found out that it represents the place that the original owner used to rent out equipment, he didn’t charge for accessing the trails and occasionally shut up shop and took people on tours, how it has all changed, I am not sure he would recognise it now. Unfortunately I am not sure what was wrong with me today but I managed to fall over a few times and got really frustrated with myself we only skied until lunch time when I treated myself to a beer to recover from the bumps and bruises I have experienced! The good news is before I started falling over Chris is definitely improving and when I can get it together I think I am as well. The Nordic centre was really busy again today, mostly with people that didn’t seem to know what they were doing so they all stayed on the upper tracks so we went down to the lower trails which I really like, it is just the getting there and getting back that is a pain as you have to go under the road and it is really steep so much so that I haven’t made it up the other side yet despite just pointing down one side somehow the way back is a lot harder as you are shattered from going round the trails! We came back to the room and got some ice for my knee as I had bashed it quite hard when I went down one time so resting it seemed to be the best idea. Sunday and we headed back to the Nordic centre, today it is really hot, they are saying it is going to be hot today, about 7C which is quite hot for a ski resort, and it turned out this was the case, the sun shone all day which made some of the trails that were not in the shade quite sticky. I was a lot better today than yesterday although I still get shattered but I did at least manage to skate a bit longer therefore not using quite as much energy as yesterday. We did a couple of circuits of the upper trails then after hot chocolate we went down to the lower trails again then by the time we got back to the lodge we decided to call it a day. We went round to the supermarket on the way back to the apartment to pick up some beer as it is the super bowl this evening so we will practice being American by having pizza and beer while cheering on the 49rs in the 54th Super Bowl which is celebrating 100 years of NFL.
