Two years ago I was also down in the greater Boston area, doing the same job for the US Army. It was just over two months after fracturing my leftAcetabulum and Ileum and was just barely off crutches had the opportunity to train with the hardcore skiers from the Cambridge Sports Union. They introduced me to Annursnac Hill Road in Concord MA. Every day I increased my training miles and intensity at the end of most workouts I felt as if I was going to rip tendons and muscles off of their respective bones, and every day I went back and repeated workouts and actually I just didn’t care if I fell apart it was an experiment and for some reason and to much surprise, I completed the next workout, and the next workout not falling apart. I would be there with Night Rider headlamp some days bothmorning and evening. I thought that someone would try to kick me off of there I would  greet the same people at 5 am good morning and at 8 pm at  good evening(in the dark)the time period was Oct to Dec Fall 2006. I believe that I hold the record for most miles in a workout staying on the road (over40).

Well anyway enough history. Today in preparation for the Whiteface Rollerski Race I did some short hill intervals. I was tired but did not premedicate with  a large cup of coffee( need to cut down). Intensity was just below race pace. I had a die hard skier AM from CSU join me I used V2 100’s he used Aero 125’s We did 6x just under 4min with similar recovery going back down. HR and effort and perceived speed were all satisfactory.

Goal was to maintain fitness not create much fatigue and ski fast with good technique.

Mission accomplished.