It’s day two of the US Ski Team’s first training camp of the year here in Bend OR. The training plan for the next week or so will consist of a lot of on snow easy distance training up at the Mt. Bachelor cross-country ski trails. The team has been coming to bend in May for   training camps for years using this time to get the whole team together early in the training season and to have some fun training in the usually sweet sunny weather. Over the next few days we will be skiing on snow in the mornings and running, rollerskiing, skateboarding, and playing some golf in the afternoons. Along with the US team there are a ton of skiers around to train with including XC Oregon and Sun valley crews. check out the pics from this morning. 

                                                               7:00 Am waxing. Liz getting her Klister on 

                                                                Still plenty of snow at Mt. Bachelor

                                                 Classic skiing this morning 

Andrew Newell

                                                                 warm out

I’m back home after a two day trip to Boston. Gus and I headed down on Friday to meet up with Jess, who had just flown in, and Ryan foster, who is living down in the area finishing up architecture school. It’s about a 2.5 hour drive to get from my house to B-town, so It’s not a bad trip and we try to make it over a a few times a year for a Sox game. We’ve been on a pretty good winning record with our trips, getting to see Lester’s no hitter last spring and then Friday’s win against Tampa Bay. Friday’s game was kind of a mellow game until the 6th when the Sox came from 3 down to 3 ahead. pretty sick rally. 
Even though we were down in the ‘city’ we didn’t have to put up with the crowds too long since Ryan lives a little bit out of town so we got a chance to kick it at his lake house for a while on Friday. Since the Boston trip Jess, Gus, and I have returned home to VT and started back into the training. It was good to have another skier around to hammer out some intervals with me this morning.
The next few days of training are going to be basic, with some easy distance and some more intervals and strength on Tuesday. Then it’s time to head west on Wednesday for Bend Camp. I’m going to do a quick stop in LA on Thursday and Friday to do an Olympic NBC thing. These things are pretty funny… we did one before the 06 games. We get to spend a day with the USOC filming some ridiculous stuff for different TV shows that they will probably never use once the Olympics are here. I’m getting fired up for Bend though, It’s going to be awesome to get on snow again!                            Fenway 

                         Me, Ryan, Gus 

                          real fans sit in the bleachers 

                                                   Jess and I 

                                    The crew at Ryan’s lake house

The past few days in Otepaa have been better than I expected. There’s not much snow here… in fact anything other than the race trails just has a dusting of wet snow from the other day. But the skiing is still perfect with some firm klister skiing and fast skating. We’ve moved out of the bunker and into a smaller but newer hotel across the street from the stadium. Yesterday was an interval training day so the coaches had us run a mock sprint relay against each other. Cook, Torin, and I started by racing the first round of 3 laps using double pole only. We weren’t prepared to d-pole in Canmore and we definitely don’t want that happening again. After the first round we had 20 minutes to get ready for another 3 laps striding. It was a really hard work out and it was good practice for the races to be rubbing shoulders with the other guys. Today we had the afternoon off from training to Cook, Andy (our PT) and I went into Tartu for the after noon.

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