November Training at its Finest

November is not normally the most exciting time except for the part when we get on snow for the first time. I have not yet gotten on snow this year, which is a little late, so i have nothing of really excitement to post. I have just continued to work hard on the dry land and am really excited about the improvements off the snow that i have been making. I improved both my Mars Hill time by 55 seconds from our September run and my VO2 Max test resulted in many aerobic improvements. I have put in some good work and know i know that i am ready to get on snow and rip it up.

videos

Austin was kind enough to put together two vidoes from the Utah camp that i though I would share with you.

Utah Camp

Here is a brief summary of our October dry land Utah Camp. I wanted to do a few shorter posts throughout the camp (as it was three and a half weeks long) but I had no internet so that one was my bad.

This year there were Sr Trials races at the end of our stay for those that were looking to make the Sweden trip and finally the World Cup but my focus is on Jr World Champs this year and they aren’t until late February so instead of wasting my time there prepping for races that mean little to me I decided that it would be better to get some high quality training in. The area where we were staying is truly beautiful and I am glad I put in those high hour weeks so that I could maximize my time outside enjoying the beautiful scenery.

Mt Timpinogous

When we started climbing early in the morning around 6,000 ft it was not crazy cold and I thought that I had over packed but by the time we got over 10,000 ft and it was snowing hard with a strong wind I knew I was happy that I brought all the clothing that I did.

Here is some snow that has been around since last year (or longer, last year when we were here there was snow in this exact same spot and it never fully melts) and I was the first one on the team to touch snow this year (not too bad for only being October 5^th).

The races were fun but I was a little worn down from all the training that I had done so I was not focusing on going fast but using them as training races and trying to shoot more accurately faster. I did end up shooting decently accurately at 70% both days, which is good for domestic juniors but not very good for international competition so I was semi pleased but still know that there is still more work to be done.