September 2012

Wow, I LOVE being home! I forget sometimes how wonderful fall in Minnesota is, and it’s so beautiful driving through Afton with the trees turning leaves and hanging over the road. Especially since there’s so many people out enjoying the good weather – I must have seen at least 30…

Aaaaand now Lake Placid camp is over! It was a good shock to the body with a lot of hard interval sessions and time trials, and now I’m going home to give myself a recovery week to let all the training sink in. While I’m home, I’ll be doing a…

There are some training camps that we do every year…with the same workouts in the same places with basically the same group of people. This is really nice because it’s so familiar and you know exactly what you’re supposed to accomplish with the session. The only downside is that sometimes…

Every so often, I really, REALLY need a jolt of adrenaline, and my favorite form of this happens to be cliff jumping. Yesterday a group of us drove to the Flume, just a little ways out of Lake Placid training center, and hit up some fun jumps. For the record,…

Yum! In between some L3 intervals where the SMS T2 team hammered around while being observed by the NENSA coaches symposium, and afternoon strength, we went apple picking. All photos from Eric Packer.   Apples are Erika’s favorite food so she was super excited! And I love picking fruits and…

So this post is going to be a little random and rambling, but will give you a look into what a typical week might look like when we DON’T have different camps going on. Today the East Coast finally lived up to it’s streotype, and it poured cats and dogs…

On Sunday, my SMS T2 teammates and I finished our longest rollerski workout…ever! We skied 100 kilometers, and it took us 6 hours and (approximately, by our math) 15,000 pole plants, 3 jugs of gatorade, and at least 50 Powerbars. And the fundraiser was a success! Thanks to everyone who…

First of all, please think back to the longest workout of your life. How many kilometers did you ski? Run? Bike? Why did you do it? On Suday, September 2nd the SMS T2 team will be doing a 100 kilometer ski on the backroads of Southern Vermont. Of course, I will…