This past week marked the first week of “pre-season” training now that fall sports have concluded. Our group was therefore a little bigger than normal! It is really exciting to see many of our younger BKL athletes making the transition to the junior program!! We kicked off the week with some strength, technique, and specific strength (aka, double poling) at Mud Pond. On Thursday we worked on skate technique and finding rhythm in the V2 alternate technique. Yesterday was a nice warm (but windy) afternoon at Essex High School working on some dryland drills and our running heart-rate zone analysis. This workout is meant to take athletes from running at level 1 pace (easy) and progress up to high level 2 or low level 3 (moderate). We run at specific paces and record heart-rate at the end of each mile. Over many weeks or months, we hope to see small improvements demonstrated by lower heart-rate at the same pace. The boys run 1 mile repeats at 9:00, 8:15 then 7:30 with 1 minute breaks (and sometimes a 4th mile repeat again at 7:30). The gals do 10:00 / 9:15 / 8:30. We also play some hackey sack or juggle a soccer ball to work on coordination and agility.
the “low walk” drill — try to keep your hips below your knees. Strength, flexibility, balance, coordination.
Hackey sack before practice. Coordination, agility, balance.
Olivia Cuneo bounding on the grass as coach Eli Enman watches. Technique, balance.
Marika Massey Bierman is making the jump from BKL to Juniors!
Chloe Lemmel-Hay, Eliza Thomas and Emily Halporn playing a game during warmup. Balance, agility.
Chloe Lemmel Hay working on bounding in the grass.
A big group of boys doing some specific strength (10km of double poling in 40 minutes).
Strength during our warmup.
The team photo on tuesday.
