Jessie

I’m still in Sun Valley, Idaho, training with the US Ski Team and the Sun Valley Olympic Development Team…and it’s been awesome! There’s been a lot of tough time trials and interval sessions, and some really sweet distance workouts. But so far, my favorite was a 3 hour 15 min…

So…I fall a lot. I fall often, and at inconvenient times. Like the first day of the USST camp in Sun Valley. On the warm up before a speed workout. When I hit the gravel, all thoughts of trying to make a good impression went straight out the window. On…

Good grief. This is gorgeous. WHY doesn’t Minnesota have mountains???? I’ve been on a TON of camping trips, but never one above treeline in the mountains as the edge of a crystal blue lake! Right now, I’m visiting Tad Elliott in Durango, CO, and I think it is absolutely beautiful…

Ironwood has been great so far – quality training on rollerskis and plenty of single track running trails. However, the humidity has been incredible. Especially when doing bounding intervals in the sun! JB and JD going after it!  (photo by Bryan Fish) So on our day off, we decided to…

The week before coming up to Ironwood, MI for CXC camp, I went camping with my family at Frontenac State Park, just outside of Redwing MN. It was super nice to just chill and sit around a campfire at night…although this was an unusual camping trip because during the day…

Ironwood has been amazing so far – the whole team is living in a condo at the base of the Powderhorn Mountain ski resort. And the rollerskiing and running has been fantastic. I guess the only complaint is that to get internet to post this blog, I have to creep…

In between CXC camps, I’ve spent some time at home, and wow has it been busy! Between training with friends and by myself, going to a death metal concert (and getting a crowd-surfer dropped on my head!), work and cleaning my room – a truly dangerous undertaking – there haven’t…

If you want to go faster, you have to be dedicated and train a lot. Most anyone can do that. But the real secret to training hard and ENJOYING IT??? It’s easy. It’s called a TEAM. There are some days when you just don’t want to get up and out…

Sadly, I don’t have any pictures to go with this post. Because if I had my camera, it would have been ruined in 10 seconds flat. This sunday, Caitlin Compton, Jennie Bender and I were doing a nice easy classic ski, when we got caught in the middle of a…

So I cannot take credit for taking ANY of these…but I CAN claim to have been a part of them! REG ended yesterday and it was an awesome camp with juniors from across the midwest getting together at the Cresthill Resort in Hayward to duke it out in sprints and…