Sorry for the delay in posting i know i said that i wanted post every Monday but the internet at the house has been terrible. I even wrote this on Monday but was not able to get it on-line.
Well, I just finished the last week of the 5 week crazy training block. I am putting in more training than ever before but I think that it is really helping. Even before this rest week (which is when you normally feel faster and stronger because of the system of super-compensation, where your body rebuilds itself stronger than before) I felt really good. I am feeling a lot stronger, especially in my ski specific muscles which really gives me confidence and a positive outlook on the future. This next week will be a rest week of sorts. It will be a chance for me to absorb all of my training and let my body rebuild after breaking it down for the past 5 weeks. I am going to try to be a normal teenager during their summer break and try to do whatever they do but I think that that will be hard given there is not a ton of stuff to do in Ft Kent but I am sure that with a little exploration I might find something interesting to do. I hear that there is a pool in town. I just have not had a chance to find out where it is because I have been too occupied with training like it was an 8 to 6 job. Now that I have a low week I think that should be that task for this week.
The training specific part of the summer is over for me. Going forward there will be more travel and more racing. I have become so accustomed to getting up 6 days a week and the only thing that I have had to think about was training. Now my schedule will be a little more hectic after this low week. Next week we travel down to Jericho, Vermont for two national level roller ski biathlon races. That should be the first real chance to see how I compare with all the other juniors in the country and even though it will only be August at that time and a lot can change after those races, it is at least the first real benchmark of the season. Immediately following Jericho the team will travel to Sugarloaf Maine to do a training camp with the whole MWSC organization, which includes the cross country team that live in Presque Isle and the various regional members from around the county. It should be a lot of fun because it is always nice to train with more people and those guys are always fun just to hang out with in general. Then, after Sugarloaf it is back home for almost two week which should be a great time to rest up, then the more intense fall training starts!
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