The past ten days of training have been pretty epic here in VT.  The SMS group has been continuing to meet three times a week for distance training, specific strength (we’ve done the ‘westin’ workout twice already. it involves a 2 hour doublepole with 3 big hills.. one of which we have to single pole up a few times) and intervals on Saturday. This past Saturday the group met at Stratton for some level 3 ski walking intervals up the mountain. The work road up the mountain is perfect for doing long intervals and it really brought me back to my SMS days. The plan called for 4×7 minutes at threshold which can basically bring you all the way up top the top. It was one of those wicked humid eastern days too so we were just dripping sweat by the time we were done with the intervals. pretty much a classic bad ass workout. The training day got even better when we returned to school and the man, the legend, Bill Koch was there to unveil to us a roller board he’s been working on. It’s still in the development stages now but  it seemed to work really well to me. He brought 2 rigs in… one of which was the exact roller board he used to train on during his racing years. and the other was a modified version of that. So it was pretty sweet to strap into the same machine that Bill had used to win medals back in the day. The roller board can also be pulled apart and used as a slide board. We were lucky enough to see Bill slip on the old  socks and give it a go…. it was awesome. The legend still has it. I’ve never seen anybody move so fluid, gliding back and forth in a no pole skate technique. Unfortunately my jaw was hanging to low at that point to take any pictures. but I did snap a few of Bill going over the roller board with the group and a quick video (sorry the quality is crappy). The Koch master wants to dial in this roller board and hopefully make some more for people to train on. so stay tuned on how the testing goes and maybe in the future you’ll be able to get your hands on one. 

               Sverre and Bill talking shop

         The legend still has it.

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