September 2013

This past weekend I had the great pleasure of crashing the coach’s symposium here in Park City. I didn’t get to go to many of the talks around training, but the guest presentations I got to see were pretty cool. I figure, coaches have to learn so much about us…

I didn’t even trip and fall this time. Nope, not a stumble. Amazing, coming from me, the queen of falling during easy workouts! Yet somehow I managed to injure my right foot while running the second to last day of our training camp in Lake Placid. We were trail running and…

This last week of camp in Lake Placid has been fantastic yet hard training! To fire us all up before our classic team sprint time trial, Matt sent out this gem of a photo: Ok, you can stop giggling now. As you can clearly see, the coaches have been putting…

Here we are, back at the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center for our annual fall camp. I think this is arguably one of the toughest training camps of the year, because it’s when we start transitioning to more intensity and harder L4 workouts. It’s the camp with the legendary and…

Can we discuss this whole “#RoadtoSochi” business really quick? What if the road is really more of a running trail? What if part of it’s actually #aquajoggingtoSochi or #yogatoSochi or #dirttrailtoSochi? I get a kick out of the term “road to Sochi” because it implies that it’s a fairly straightforward and surefire…