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…