As always, check the Google Doc for updated training schedules. This week:
Week type: Easy/Transition
Suggested additional workouts: Shorter runs (35-45 minutes, easy pace), general strength and core (pushups, dips, planks, etc), general fitness through HS spring sports
Spring report/photos from the past few weeks
Despite some lingering winter weather, we’ve had a great start to some low-key spring training!
Ski training is an endless cycle of preparation: spring gets the body ready for the tough workouts of summer. Big summer sessions get you ready for the intensity of fall. The intensity of fall gives you speed for the winter, and by the time the next spring rolls around you are already focused on the coming winter.
Sometimes it is REALLY easy to think about next winter, especially when you are still skiing! Kai and Will get some nordic action in skiing up the alpine slopes of Bolton last weekend
Our spring sessions have been about introducing regularity into the training schedule…running for more than a jog down the road, lifting and throwing objects heavier than a backpack, and adding more coordination and balance than a sprint to the bus in the morning…with a healthy mix of soccer games and playground antics, of course.
Here’s a few photos of the action:
A full week later (Apr 25) and there was still about 2 ft of snow on top of Camels Hump. For our trip there yesterday Greg and Aidan (pictured) hiked all the way to the summit with sleds and took the fast route back down to some pizza at Papa McKees
Earlier in the week and back down on the lower slopes in the valley, we did some really basic repeats up Honey Hollow road…some cones to run between and with poles added to make it feel more like the real thing…don’t worry, no ski bounding yet!
From the classic (literally; there was no skating yet) 1975 ski manual Caldwell on Competitive Cross Country Skiing: “…over-all, coordinated strength training, which fosters the ability to use muscle groups from various parts of your body in harmonious effort…really separates the sheep from the goats” (p. 86)
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