How bad off are ya with bad skis, wax, grind?
Hey Jeff, If you want an example of bad wax…. I waxed too soft for the 10 km National Masters. I tried Solda Iper Ivory (meant for right around freezing), and even through the temps were about 28-30 F, the wax was too soft. Also, I corked in my Cera F (040), vigorously, but it was still corked and probably didn’t last. The snow was tilled up ice and my skis got slower and slower at the race went on. My wife was giving me splits during the multilap race and I was 3 second up on Tom Krenz at about 1 km into the race (my skis were great for a few km), and then I started losing time, and ended up losing maybe 5-10 seconds/km in the last few km. Tom had really great skis with Toko Red and Streamline (I assume warm). BTW, I didn’t give up…in fact I killed myself trying to make up for the bad skis. Since my skis slowed drastically during the race, I don’t think this was a case of bad flex or bad structure. On Thr for the pursuit, the roles were switched. I had good skis and Tom had poor s
