Sugarloaf Camp

For the past week I have been training in Sugarloaf, Maine with the MWSC cross country team. The focus for this camp is intensity and volume. We are staying at the Carrabassett Valley Academy, one of the premier ski/snowboard schools in the east. CVA boasts alums like may time Olympic Medalist Bode Miller, and Olympic Gold Medalist snowboarder Seth Wescott. Training in the Carrabassett Valley always involves a lot of vertical gain. Here are some of the more daunting workouts the team and I completed this week: Race pace bounding intervals up Sugarloaf Mountain, uphill rollerski intervals, a 5 hour mountain run/hike, and uphill double pole intervals. We have two more days of camp left and we are all looking to finish up strong.