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Old February 9th 06, 11:54 AM
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On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:38:42 GMT, "Norman"
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When I was in Tignes over xmas one of the tour reps was running a
little sideline where he'd lend you a small GPS receiver/recorder[1]
which he'd then take back and use to produce a complete plot,
displayed in several different ways, of your skiing for the day,
including speed, rate of descent, distance covered, etc. etc. He was
then laminating them and suggesting they could be used as placemats.
Charged about 20 EU each, IIRC.


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Any idea roughly what speed an intermediate skier will be reaching in an
average day's piste bashing?


Some of the group I was talking to had topped 70mph, but they were
definitely not in the 'intermediate' category. I'd skiied with them
with the Ski Club rep the day before and, while not actually
struggling to keep up, I certainly wasn't hanging about. Of course, on
neither day were they specifically trying to go balls-out fast. If
they/we had, I suspect higher speeds might have been acheived.

According to my Garmin I peaked at 55mph in Morzine last week but that was
in a racing tuck at the end of a long red. My friend, a much better skiier
than me, thought that skiers only reach about 30mph and still reckoned the
reading was wrong when he borrowed the garmin and hit 58mph.


Speeds of up to 100mph are recorded on some of the faster Downhill
events on the World Cup circuit, so I'd suspect that your readout was
correct and that your friend was misinformed.

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