The race started at 12 noon on Saturday and ended at 12 noon on Sunday. My focus was to recover properly between each leg, and also to make sure I wasn’t going to dig myself into a hole for ski training, especially coming off a big volume week a week before. (more…)
Haig Glacier Camp Re-Cap
The Haig Glacier Camp is located in Kananaskis Country, Alberta, it is about a 45min drive from Canmore to the trail head and then about a 1:45 to 3 hr run/hike in depending on how fast you go and how far down the snow pack is at the time. I heard rumors that the first camp in this year had to use snow shoes once they got up into the alpine. Almost all the Canadian teams and clubs venture out to the Glacier at least once during the summer.
Our camp was scheduled for July 14-21st. The neat part about this camp is that the first day fell on my birthday! I know most people wouldn’t really like to spend their birthday hiking up a mountain, but I couldn’t think of any better way to spend it! I will note, though the morning of the hike we had strength, but I also had a meeting at 9 at work. So I had to meet Mike (the coach) ready and warmed up for 6:30am on my birthday! As he chucked medicine balls at my head and told me to jump higher, oh and the wobbly matt that he put under my elbow for side plank because it “looked too easy”(I am a fan of shape magazine core workouts!) I began to really wish I had been doing the circuits with my team. It was upon that realization that I finally felt part of a team. The last two months the girls have been doing the circuits together and it has provided a huge amount of motivation, especially because every one of us has a different strength in the gym. So when you see someone jumping faster or doing more pushups it definitely motivates you to pull your weight! It’s been awesome. (more…)
Rest and Recovery- Steps to maximize the days off and stay sane in the interim
When I received my program for the month a few weeks ago, I scanned the entire month, noting the hard days, the long days, and the strength days. Everything seemed to in order, until my eye caught two squares back to back, highlighted in bright yellow. My heart immediately went to my throat and a sense of panic set in. These two squares represented the doomed rest days. And you must have thought I was building up for some crazy epic zone 12 bounding intensity up some crazy hill with a name like Rambo…this is much worse.
I know you’re sitting there rolling your eyes, or furthermore saying to yourself, “I love rest days”…if you are one of those fortunate few who can take a rest day in stride, please tell me your secret, because I find these days the hardest. (more…)
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