Monday, September 20, 2010
Getting There
It is mid September and almost time for the busy, intense, and super killer awesome time of the year. In 3 weeks I leave for Soldier Hollow in Utah for a training camp. Shortly following I will be going to either Canmore Alberta or Silverstar British Columbia far an ON SNOW camp, but for now it’s training in Fort Kent. Life has settled into a predictable rhythm for me, however there is a lot of activity here in Fort Kent. This week was Homecoming week at the college in town and the kickoff of the harvest season. Just this morning a truck filled with potatoes fresh from the field rolled past my house. Fall is passing incredibly quickly and its almost time to..Go!
Monday, September 13, 2010
Pics From Quebec
My teammates are having all having camera trouble so I'll try to get more pics in the near future, but for now these will have to do.
Monday, September 6, 2010
(Not) Back to School
It’s wacky but for the first time in 13 years (?!?!) I will not be going back to school tomorrow. I will be entering the 6th period of the training year. This period the focus is on combination shooting and fine tuning the general fitness acquired over the summer. The culmination of this training cycle will be a training camp in Soldier Hollow Utah.
Filling in the Blog Gap
Filling in the Blogging Gap
I apologize for not keeping you up to date on activities as of late, but I’ve been on the move a lot! After Jericho I went straight to Sugarloaf Maine for a training camp with the MWSC cross country team. The camp was mostly running and biking and almost exclusively a distance training affair. I really enjoyed staying at CVA (see previous post) and the training was really productive. After Sugarloaf I flew back to Minnesota to spend some time with my family and friends. Leaving Minnesota was a bit of a struggle due to all the road construction between Esko and Minneapolis. The confusion and delays eventfully lead to me missing my flight and delayed my arrival in Fort Kent by a good 10 hours. Luckily all my stuff made it with me and I was able to put in a great week of training before heading up to Mount St. Anne Quebec for Mountain Bike World Championships. My time in Quebec was awesome to say the least. I’m having trouble articulating the Championships, so here is a list of the awesome and some less than awesome things I experienced over the weekend.
The bad news first: Food was really expensive, it rained and was really windy a night, and I got really cold and wet at one point.
The totally sick: Volunteering at the 4-cross (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_crossevent) clipping the timing chips of the riders that didn’t advance, which put me inches away from the best in the world,
Testing amazing bicycles such as this one: http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bc/SBCProduct.jsp?spid=52783&scid=1000&scname=Mountain)
Watching and cheering for Willow Koerber as she pulled down a bronze medal in the Elite Women XC http://www.willowkoerber.com/)
Watching and cheering for Minnesota boy Jack Hinkens in the U23 race. (http://jackhinkens.com/
Riding with Bronze Medalist Burry Stander (http://www.burrystander.typepad.com/) and American Todd Wells. (http://yotwells.typepad.com/)
I hope you enjoy all those links and check back for some pics from Canada.
I apologize for not keeping you up to date on activities as of late, but I’ve been on the move a lot! After Jericho I went straight to Sugarloaf Maine for a training camp with the MWSC cross country team. The camp was mostly running and biking and almost exclusively a distance training affair. I really enjoyed staying at CVA (see previous post) and the training was really productive. After Sugarloaf I flew back to Minnesota to spend some time with my family and friends. Leaving Minnesota was a bit of a struggle due to all the road construction between Esko and Minneapolis. The confusion and delays eventfully lead to me missing my flight and delayed my arrival in Fort Kent by a good 10 hours. Luckily all my stuff made it with me and I was able to put in a great week of training before heading up to Mount St. Anne Quebec for Mountain Bike World Championships. My time in Quebec was awesome to say the least. I’m having trouble articulating the Championships, so here is a list of the awesome and some less than awesome things I experienced over the weekend.
The bad news first: Food was really expensive, it rained and was really windy a night, and I got really cold and wet at one point.
The totally sick: Volunteering at the 4-cross (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_crossevent) clipping the timing chips of the riders that didn’t advance, which put me inches away from the best in the world,
Testing amazing bicycles such as this one: http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bc/SBCProduct.jsp?spid=52783&scid=1000&scname=Mountain)
Watching and cheering for Willow Koerber as she pulled down a bronze medal in the Elite Women XC http://www.willowkoerber.com/)
Watching and cheering for Minnesota boy Jack Hinkens in the U23 race. (http://jackhinkens.com/
Riding with Bronze Medalist Burry Stander (http://www.burrystander.typepad.com/) and American Todd Wells. (http://yotwells.typepad.com/)
I hope you enjoy all those links and check back for some pics from Canada.
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