Winter has arrived! It snowed and it’s freezing. As always since we live in Sweden: it’s happening again: snow fever. Where are my (Mireille) ice skates or cross-country skies I want to get out! Well, too early for ice skating, but the first cross-country trails are open. Just in time to have a real technique training by Tynell Activity in Falun just before the real winter starts.
Well, I tried my skies several times on the lake and in the woods, but I just have no clue what techniques I need for going a bit faster, like grandma Duck my friend in Holland would say. I simply use my Alpine-ski skills when I go downhill, and just walk on my skies. Tynell Activity has special technique training for beginners, that sounded perfect.
It was a wonderful day to drive to Falun. Half an hour from here it had snowed heavily, and the trees around me were all covered in snow. How I just love that! Halfway I came across Sörskog’s cross country trail. To my surprise, it was already busy there. It looks so cute : people dressed for a ski tour, lots of snow and these Falun red little houses in the landscape. For me a lovely old-fashioned winter picture. Energetic and with my radio loud I drove to Falun’s Lugnet.
Lugnet is also worth a visit. I had never been there, but it’s a sports park below the huge ski-jumps which you can see from afar as you drive towards Falun. Lucky me, the cross country ski trail where we had our training was exactly underneath them. I know for sure: I’m never gonna try those!
Our group just consisted of four people. Great to have enough personal attention this way. Our trainer Mikael Sandgren was very relaxed and could explain very well. The technique training focused on stability today, similar to stability exercises during ice-skating lessons. So we practiced without ski poles, and without one of the skies and those kinds of things. After our lessons, I skied a few laps before going to my car again. O, all these people in tight clothes that pass by so quickly. Keep on practicing.
While I drove home, enjoying the snowy landscape, radio loud, I thought it would be fun to take up the challenge and try the (short) Vasaloppet. Mmm, then I must first persuade someone (that someone knows…) since everything is easier when you can chat, at least in my case. Fingers crossed I can ski on the illuminated tracks in Furudal soon.