we’ve been getting in some serious training this past week in Park City. In addition to training with Liz and Hoff the National training group has been involved with most of our workouts. US Ski Team coach Chris Grover and Morgan Arritola have also driven down from Sun Valley to join us for a week of training. We started off the week with some level 4 skating intervals at SoHo and a Max strength session in the afternoon. This is the time of year where most of us transition from our general, base building strength routines to a Max strength phase. So we’re talking big weight around 4 to 5 reps. Lets just say there are a lot of sore cross country skiers walking around so we’re taking full advantage of the new ice tubs here at the training center. Yesterday we rolled out on a two hour double pole with an afternoon run from the training center on the round valley trails. Today we hit up one of the first ‘real’ speed session of the training season. Grover brought his custom  made sprint start gate so we all ripped out a few start speeds along with some up hill V2 power speeds. I have the afternoon off today so I think I’ll be heading back to the training center for a skate session in the new bowl and gear up for some more intervals and max strength tomorrow.

here are some pics of some nordies getting huge. 

   liz: big weight for a small girl

  Mo doing some dead lifts

   CLEAR! Mo and Alex, our strength coach 

                              Some blurry weighted pull ups

   no workout is complete without a sing star session afterword

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