what up world, 

It has been an epic last week here at the snow farm. With snow continuing to fall every few days it’s made for some wintery conditions and killer skiing. I don’t think we’ve been on klister since one of our first days on the rock. 

I’n the past week we’ve put together one of the hardest training weeks we’ll have all summer long. It will be close to a 25 hour week with two interval sessions, one 10k time trial, 2 gym sessions,  and 2 days of specific strength. Combined that with last week and the beginning of this week and it comes out to around 65 hours of training in the past three weeks. So we’re starting to get a little bit on the tired side. But the past week has been awesome. Our little 10k time trial on saturday turned into a small race thanks to the local ski team… and a few master skiers including Mary, the owner of the snow farm. So that was cool. It felt good to do a real ski race. It turned out to be really hard waxing too, and we all had to race on harries… but it was good practice for Vancouver though.                                        measuring up some poles        photo by Torin Koos

We finished off our camp today with a set of 4×4 level 4 double pole intervals. We always try to do a few of these when we’re all together for a camp so we can hammer on each other a little bit more. It’s definitely one of those workouts that is better to do with some other people. Then this afternoon we went for a recovery ski, and tomorrow morning we’ll start our two day trek back to the US. Having this training block of winter was sick, but it’s time to get back to the warmth and the sun and enjoy the last few weeks of summer. 

Cook, Newell, YT striding        photo by Torin Koos

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