Sun Valley’s ODT took on the Harper’s Time Trial today which concluded some early summer testing Travis Jones had his squad doing this past week.  Harper’s TT has been run by hundreds of skiers who have come up through the Sun Valley program in the last twelve years and others from around the west.  It’s basically a 12 to 16 minute lung burner from the bottom of the Lake Creek trails system up Harper’s trail, a dirt single track.  The men’s and women’s records are held by Ben True, who ran 11:30 back in November 2007, and Morgan Arritola who posted a 13:41 in June 2007.   No girl has gotten within 1:30 of Arritola’s time so that one could stand for quite a while.  Today we had three PR’s: Mikey Sinnott cruised up with a 12:04 (3rd fastest all-time), Miles Havlick ran a 13:06, and Alexa Turzian tied her PR at 15:30.  With this being the first L4 session of the summer for the team Jones felt pretty good about the results.   Here’s a video from the Time Trial:  Harper\’s TT Video

Earlier in the week the team went through a strength test.  For the second year now, SVSEF has been using the Cross Country Canada (CCC) protcol.  The CCC test takes 9 minutes to complete.  Athletes run thru five exercises seeing how many repetitions they can do in one minute, taking one minute rest, then rolling right to the next exercise.  It consists of pullups, sit ups, push ups, box jumps, and dips.  Its hard.  This time around all of the althletes improved thier scores, some putting up some really good numbers.  Colin Rodgers scored a 396 (45 pullups, 70 situps, 75 pushups, 51 box jumps, and 65 dips (basically you mulitply your pullups by three and add all the numbers up to get a score.  As far as we know, 396 is a record for this test. 

If anyone in the Sun Valley area would like to go on a hike and meet this team, we’re hosting a public group hike for all abilities this Sunday morning at Lake Creek Trailhead just north of town.  Call Travis Jones for more @208-721-8579