I’ve been away from the blog for a while, a little overwhelmed with school, so here’s a recap of my first weekend at the camp in Jericho.  

This time I wasn’t alone, finally!  Many of the athletes from Lake Placid had arrived midweek and those from Maine, Minnesota and elsewhere began to trickle in around the time I arrived on Friday. I usually arrive at the range around 3pm on Fridays because I have class until 12:30.  Since this was a volume week I had some shooting tests followed by a 3.5-hour skate and run, which I didn’t start until 4:30pm.  You can imagine I made some pretty nervous double takes while jogging around at dusk on the rollerloop.  After all, the army had been doing simulations all week and I wasn’t sure whom I’d run into on the loop.

Saturday morning I had more shooting tests and then a 10k Pursuit time trial with Haley.  The time trial went well, I shot 0-1-2-0 (those numbers stand for misses).  Despite being at the tail end of a 25-hour week I felt great skiing.  The afternoon was a combination of studying for a physics exam and unintentionally falling asleep over my books.  I can’t argue that I didn’t need the sleep—college is a sleep-starved environment.  In the afternoon I returned to the range (as did the rain, no surprise) for technique-specific strength, which consists of 10 30-second sprints in each of four techniques (no pole, V2, V2 alternate, V1) combined with shooting.  After that I did about 30 minutes of core strength, finishing in time for dinner for once! 

Sunday I had technique combos, doing 10-minute loops of double pole, V2, V2 alternate, and normal skiing between shooting.  My legs were tired by the end of the workout but I still felt mentally alert.  I drove back to New Hampshire to hang up all my wet clothes from the weekend before heading out on a 3-hour bike ride in Vermont (it rained, again).   

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