Thanks to Torin we got a few pics from the past day or two. The weather has been pretty nasty for the past 48 hours but we’ve been getting some good snow. Yesterday afternoon we had a complete white out at the snow farm and you could barely see ten feet in front of you. Luckily we had a run on the schedule in the afternoon so we were able to head down to Wanaka and run around the lake. But it also meant fitting chains in the dark on the way back up. life is good on the rock. 

view of the foggy ski trails

fitting chains on the way back up the hill

chillin in town

road to the snow farm

Sorry it’s been so long since my last post. Things have been crazy the past few weeks, but now we’re finally in New Zealand with a little bit of time on our hands.

I’ve spent the past three weeks or so training in Park City trying to get in some altitude before heading down under. This was one of my first times trying out the ‘live high train low’ theory of training and I think it went really well. I spend the first half of my time in PC just under 8,000 feet and then the last half at about 8,600. During these three weeks I was still doing a lot of intensity so I ended up spending a lot of time doing intervals at SoHo and even heading down toward SLC for some higher speed workouts.

After testing last week I think spending that block of training at a high altitude was a good idea. I was able to have some of the best tests ever both on the tredmill and on the strength side. 

With testing out of the way we made our way down to New Zealand on Friday. Even though it takes like two days of full travel to get here it’s really not that bad. The only crappy experience we had was while we were trying to leave LA on our way to NZ the air conditioning was broken on the airplane and there was some other mechanical problem on top of that so we ended up sitting on the run way sweating our butts off for almost two hours.

Other than that it was ok… except we’ve been here for two days and Cook still hasn’t seen his ski bag yet. He’s be on the phone trying to track it down and I guess it’s still in LA for some reason.

The first two days of skiing have been great. We started it out with some basic distance and then today we had some speed and we’re heading down to Wanaka for some strength this afternoon. The Canadians are here training and Paul Murry of Australia is going to train with us for a little bit, so we have a good crew. Sorry for no pictures today, I’ll try to get some up as soon as possible. I literally packed in 10 minutes on my way here and managed to forget the charger for my camera, and the power cord for the play station. Tragic. But I’ll try to borrow someone’s camera and get some pics up. Later