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For years I’d been hearing people gush over Canmore – how beautiful and unique the mountains are, how pro the ski area is, how nice the town is, and how great the coffee shops are. And I was always like “yeah, sure, you betcha it is”, picturing a typical ski town….

This is why I love going to Park City for October camp ever year – the weather is so awesome it makes for incredible training! While it’s starting to get rainy and gross outside in most of the US once the leaves have changed and fallen, PC has been sunny…

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving everyone! Ok, now the blog post can begin. (quick note: all F&F pics from Katie Perhai of USSA) The Fast and Female event in Park City was officially AWESOME. As per my usual, I got to lead the dancing/endurance station, where we keep moving the entire time…

So, now that I’ve been in Park City for a week, some pretty sweet stuff has gone down. First, I don’t feel like I’m breathing through a straw every time I walk up a flight of stairs since my body is starting to acclimate to the altitude. Second, the rock…

Last week while I was home I got to show two Swedish media guys around Afton. Jonas Karsson and Per, the cameraman from SVT station came over and got lots of footage for a small 5-15 min documentary-type thing that will be aired the weekend of the first World Cup…

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…