LHS Nordic Ski Team Blog!!

Let's get Stoked!!  The final week of the season is upon us!   Here is what our week will look like: Monday:  Skate Ski / 20 min. Warm Up / 20 min. Sharpening Drills / 10 min. Cool Down Tuesday:  Classic Ski / 20 min. Warm Up / 10 x 30 sec. Intervals / 10 min. Cool Down                  - Guys night at Becca's 6:30 pm Wednesday:  Skate Ski / 30 min. Warm Up / Leg Speeds / 10 min. Cool Down Thursday:  7:30 am Leave for Pinedale / Ski & Wax / Eat Dinner Friday:  10k Skate Race / 1 skier every 15 sec.                       - Varsity Boys 10:00 am                       - Varsity Girls 10:40 am Saturday:  5k Classic Race / 1 skier every 15 sec.                                          - Varsity Women 10:00 am                      - Varsity Men 10:30 am

Photos from the Laramie race are here . I did not get a single picture from Saturday's race because we were busy with the Klister.  Note there are some pictures of Jr. High racers mixed in.  Shadows in the pictures are terrible, but not much I could do about it. Here's a good one of our boy's captain. Nice job everyone.  

It was a great weekend of races on our home course !  I was so proud of all of you, you did a whole lot of dragon slaying. This week is going to be a good time to make sure all of your equipment is in good working order and you are doing each day of training with a purpose and a plan. It is a first week of Taper.  What that means is we will be scaling back on the length of our practices.  This will give you some extra time.  Please use it for good and not evil!  This means eating well , getting home work done and taking naps. Here's the scoop! Monday:  Classic Ski / 20 min. Warm Up / 30 min. Sharpening Drills / 10 min. Cool Down Tuesday:  Skate Ski / 20 min. Warm Up / 10 x 1 min. Intervals / 10 min. Cool Down Wednesday:  Classic Ski / 1:15 Over Distance Ski Thursday:  Yoga 5:45 in the Lab School Gym or Rest Day! Friday:  Skate Ski / 20 min. Warm Up / Game / 10 min. Cool Down Saturday:  No Practice / Rest Day or Active Recovery - meaning really easy relaxing ski on

We will be slaying some dragons on our home course this week!   If you have not gotten on the google doc for our home race please do so and sign up on our google doc  to bring something for our banquet!!!  You are required to come and bring something.  Here is the link to our google doc. https://docs.google.com/ spreadsheets/d/1d1Cj_ Ww36T4xJwakBVKzNvtiR7bX5ZPYww- PsumYOOQ/edit#gid=0 Here is the plan:   Dinner location is:  Spring Creek Elementary School  Start time:  7:00 pm Seniors:  Bring Drinks Juniors, Sophomores Jr. High:  Cook and Bring Pasta Noodles Freshman:  Salad or Veggie side Everyone:  Bring a Desert for 20 people I want to add in a beautiful quote from Coach Emily in Lander. "We have plenty of work ahead of us. Renew your focus. Recognize that you can make endless improvements. Be humble and work hard EVERY SINGLE DAY!  That doesn’t mean work to exhaustion, this means to do your best work at every training session. If it is a distance day, reall

I have posted more photos from day 2 at Soldier Hollow, the classic day, here .  On day two, Coach Becca had me chained to the wax bench all day doing Klister.  Besides loosing some brain cells, I was only able to get out and take photos of the last race, which was the men's 15km.  Sorry about that to the women and younger racers. Here is a good one.  Can you guess who this is?  In his defense, the slush was 8 inches deep and 1 in 5 guys were going down on the hairpin.  No shame in biting it here.

With Soldier Hollow behind us we are looking at two races left, Laramie and then State in Pinedale. If you or your parents are are willing to help with the home race please let me know! Here is our schedule for training this week: Monday am:  No Practice - Sleep in! Monday pm:  Skate Ski / 20 min. Warm Up / Sharpening Drills & Agility / 10 min. Cool Down Tuesday:  Classic Ski / 20 min. Warm Up / Ladder Intervals / 10 min. Cool Down Wednesday am:  Velocity Strength 6:00 am Wednesday pm:  Skate Ski / 1:15 Over Distance / Name the Jr. Nationals Team Wednesday Evening:  Girls Night at Becca's 6:30 pm Thursday:  Yoga or Rest Day  Friday:  Skate Ski / 20 min. Warm Up / Game / 10 min. Cool Down Saturday:  Skate Ski / 9:00 am LHS Cafeteria / Over distance 2:00