LHS Nordic Ski Team Blog!!

I got a chance to look at the results from Soldier Hollow. Looks like everyone left it all out there! It looks like a lot of tough competition like usual. Hope everyone is getting rested up! Drink lots of water eat some good food and take a nap! We had our sprint day here yesterday. Man! There are some fast skiers! It's pretty amazing to see the world cup suits on so many of the skiers. Tomorrow we have a skiathlon so us coaches spent a lot of the morning doing some serious waxing!

Wow! It has been an amazing trip so far. I don't think I am over exaggerating to say that this has been the best experience of my life thus far. We are a bit tired after 30 some hours of traveling and about 8 hours of sleep in the last 3 days. However, the opening ceremonies kept us wide awake with the beautiful folk dancing and the amazing fire work display! We had our first race today and everybody did a great job. We are excited for the sprints tomorrow and are expecting some great successes. I hope that everyone has great races in SoHo!!!

Good luck to coach Becca, Dan, and the rest of the UW Nordic team in Turkey at the World University Games ! Becca, may the waxing force be with you. Dan, go man go!

I hope that everyone has a good two weeks! Here is the plan: Week # 1 Intensity Week Monday 1/24/11: Classic Skiing/15 min. Warm Up no poles/40 min. Double pole drills/ 10min. Cool Down Tuesday 1/25/11: Skate Skiing/ 15 min. Warm Up/ 4-5/2 min. intervals/ 15 min. Cool Down Wednesday 1/26/11: Waxing, Strength (optional) and Team Dinner Thursday 1/27/11: Leave for Soldier Hollow 8 am! Bring 5 extra dollars so you can ski when you get there. Friday 1/28/11: Skate Sprint Start Time 9 am boys followed by girls in each class (OJ, J1, J2) Mass start for Novice Saturday 1/29/11: Classic Race Start Time 9:00 am J1/OJ Men 15k J1/OJ Women 10k J2 Men & Women 5k Week # 2 Recovery Week If you are really tired or sick this is a good week to take an extra day off! Monday 1/31/11: Skate Skiing/15 min. Warm Up no poles/40 min. Body Position drills/ 10min. Cool Down Tuesday 2/1/11: Classic Skiing/ 15 min. Warm Up/ 2-3 x 5 min. Intervals/ 10 min. Cool Down Wednesday 2/2/11: Classic Skiing/...

Hope that everyone is getting healthy and spending some extra time resting. If you haven't gotten me your Soldier Hollow paper work yet you need to get it to me no later than Tuesday. If I do not have your paper work and money I will assume that you are not going to Soldier Hollow. This week will be a volume week so we will be putting some hours in doing long easy skis with a couple intensity work outs. Here is the schedule: Monday: 3:30 at the high school Classic skiing/ Warm Up 30 min./ Technique and video work 30 min./15 min. Cool Down Tuesday: Classic skiing/ LSD 1:30 Wednesday: Classic skiing/ Warm up 30 min./ Time Trial/ Cool Down 15 min. Thursday: Skate Skiing LSD 1:00 Friday: Skate Skiing/ Warm up 15 min./ Drills/ 15 min Cool down Saturday: Skate Skiing/ Warm up 30 min./ Technique and video/ 15 min. Cool Down

Wow! What an awesome weekend. Beautiful skiing and good hard fun racing. Everybody did a great job pushing themselves this weekend. Let's keep the ball rolling! It is going to be a really cold week so bring lots of extra clothes tomorrow!!!! Here is the Schedule for the week: Monday: Classic skiing/10 min. warm up/30 min. pole work and stretches/ 15 min. Cool Down Tuesday: Skate Skiing/Warm up 15 min./Ladder intervals/15 min. Cool Down Wednesday: Waxing/Team Dinner 6:30 Thursday: Leave for Lander 3:30/ We will be staying at The Pronghorn in Lander Friday: 7.1K Skate Race/Start Time 12:00 noon 12:00: Varsity Boys 12:30: Varsity Girls 1:15: JV Boys and Girls 4k 1:30: Jr. High Boys and Girls Saturday: 10k Classic Race/Start time 9:30/Mass Start 9:30 Varsity Boys Wave 1 9:35 Varsity Boys Wave 2 10:30 Varsity Girls Wave 1 10:35 Varsity Girls Wave 2 11:30 JV/Jr high Mass Start 4k

A few photos from Casper. Click here.

Finally. I had some issues with my camera, but finally have some photos from the Laramie race posted. Click here.