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Are you ready for this!?! Heading for the hard intervals, sleigh rides this week and more hard stuff to come. Be sure to get extra recovery around the hard workouts that are coming and do your snow dance so maybe we can head to do some decent skiing this weekend! Note the change for Wednesday's workout - we'll meet at Optimist park to do rollerski intervals.
Here is the group training for this week. As always everyone is welcome, just come to the appropriate place and introduce yourself! Let us know if you want to know what we're doing on any given day. If you can join us that's great but if not don't forget to check out the training schedule: Training Monday
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 Very happy team at the end of the first ski in the Snowies! WooHoo! First ski in the Snowies! Magical!
For training we are moving into our Anaerobic Development phase, YES!!! Time to start revving that engine in preparation for the season! We'll be doing our hill bounding at the lower parking lot. It looks like the snow is coming, after skiing this last weekend it looks like there is more snow in the forecast so hopefully we'll be able to ski this coming weekend as well! Here is the group training for this week. As always everyone is welcome, just come to the appropriate place and introduce yourself! Let us know if you want to know what we're doing on any given day. If you can join us that's great but if not don't forget to check out the training schedule: Training Monday
Starting the semester is hard for everyone. No matter what you did during the summer the change to classes, homework and training can be tough.
This especially true if you are a freshman. You have all the issues mentioned above PLUS being away from home for the first time, roommates, feeding yourself, classes and homework unlike anything you have done in the past, and many other difficulties. This is what makes these two young women so phenomenal. They both have had a great deal to manage in the first month of the semester and in spite of this they have the highest practice percentages on the team! Ella spent the summer working in two different labs in addition to making it to almost every single summer practice and ALL the adventure weekends! Despite what should have been a fairly easy transition to school one of her projects didn't end as planned and she was also left completely in charge of it. A project that really should have been managed by a staff member or graduate student fell squarely in her lap as a Junior in college. This in top of a difficult schedule with multiple hard courses and labs. Ella is also the Vice-President of the team and as such is a strong roll model to the younger skiers. She takes this very seriously. This entire semester Ella has only missed practice when she was sick, which wasn't often. She has been an inspiration for the team in all aspects: school, training, volunteer work, and leadership. Always with a smile and a willingness to help she embodies the team. Ella has stepped into the void left by her mentors, Elise, Sierra and Meghan, and has not disappointed. For this reason Ella is Skier of the Month for September. YOU ROCK OUR WORLD!!!! Maddy has been around the team for so long that we forget she wasn't always here. She has attended multiple Memorial Day Ski Camps and fit in so well from the start that we looked forward to having her on the team. She has not disappointed. She is as wonderful and fits even better than we anticipated. I can't even tell you how many times she asked to help this weekend and better yet I found her just finding things to do, like dishes. She is already making her mark on the team with her smile, laugh and willingness to hurt and help! I do not recall a time when a freshman managed to handle the transition to school and skiing better than Maddy has done. She has missed only two practices, one when she had a terrible week of exams and one when her alarm didn't go off. She is so dedicated that she is one of the faces that I expect every time I look up. She also excelled in the hillbounding this weekend at FORO, finishing the workout with the older girls and looking good all the way through the end. She has done a phenomenal job of school and skiing, managing to get enough rest to not get sick while still being successful in the classroom and training. She is a rock and she's only 1 month into her freshman year! We are super excited she is finally part of our family. Maddy, you ROCK OUR WORLD!!!!  Happy that we're done with an AMAZING weekend of training! Wow! What an amazing few days of training at FORO! You all ROCKED it and we were so impressed! Hard work and dedication was on full display!
For this week we will ramp it back a tad to allow everyone to recover from the speed. We'll be doing a small volume block to make sure we are ready to rock the next Hill Resistance week! We will also have our resident, amazing Nationally ranked strength coach come to morning practice so don't miss out on your chance to get some personalized coaching from a top-notch strength coach! Here is the group training for this week. As always everyone is welcome, just come to the appropriate place and introduce yourself! Let us know if you want to know what we're doing on any given day. If you can join us that's great but if not don't forget to check out the training schedule: Training Monday
The FORO Dragon... Slayed...
Last Monday I wrote, "As I write this huge, beautiful snowflakes are falling from the sky!" Guess what?? It's happening again!!! Hope it keeps up for the season!
For training we are still in our Hill Resistance but we'll be moving to a new location, lower parking lot and up a bigger hill, YES! Please note the slight time change to enable Christi & Rachel to come to practice! This week is the amazing Fort Robinson (FORO) Speed Camp!!! Woo Hoo! If you don't know what it is you are in for a treat as we stay in the coolest old Officers Quarters and run/rollerski in some truly awesome and unique areas. If you are coming watch for more information! Here is the group training for this week. As always everyone is welcome, just come to the appropriate place and introduce yourself! Let us know if you want to know what we're doing on any given day. If you can join us that's great but if not don't forget to check out the training schedule: Training Monday
 Teams from the Race to the Tetons this weekend. SUPER FUN! As I write this huge, beautiful snowflakes are falling from the sky! Two inches have fallen already and there is a Winter Storm Warning until midnight! Super exciting!
For training we are still in our Hill Resistance so we'll be hoofing up around Upper UW on Wednesday. Saturday will bring some individualization of training with some doing the Silent Trails 10mile race and some doing a 2.5+hr over distance. If things work out some of you could try for a ski on Sunday! Here is the group training for this week. As always everyone is welcome, just come to the appropriate place and introduce yourself! Let us know if you want to know what we're doing on any given day. If you can join us that's great but if not don't forget to check out the training schedule: Training Monday
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