LHS Nordic Ski Team Blog!!

This is the last week of practice!!!  I hope you got some rest and easy skiing over the weekend!  We will have 3 days to ski this week before we leave early Thursday morning.  For those of you who have been doing morning practices, I would plan to just do something really easy or sleep in! All of the coaches are so stoked to be taking such a fantastic group of skier Monday:  Skate Skiing / 20 min. Warm-Up / Technique Work / 10 min. Cool Down Tuesday:  Classic Skiing / 35 min. Ski / Leg Speeds / 10 min. Cool Down Wednesday:  Skate Skiing / 35 min. Ski / Leg Speeds / 10 min. Cool Down Thursday:  Leave 7:00 am for Cody  Friday:  Skate 5k / Start 10 am / Varsity Girls then Varsity Boys Saturday:  Classic 10k / Start 10 am / Varsity Boys then Varsity Girls Here is more info on State: The following links are the race information:   https://docs.google.com/file/ d/1UGz-mshPePpa- VPEDKRnhnlJgcY1sV9s/edit?usp= ...

Wow!  We are starting to ski great!  What a fantastic weekend of racing in Soldier Hollow!  It was beautiful, the competition was intense and the skiing was fast and fun! Guess what?  We have officially started our PEAKING portion of the season!!!  Woohoo!!! This is when we take some of the training load off and let our bodies supercompensate for all the hard work we have done.  It is really important that you do not stop training right now and you do not start any new activities right now.  You want to focus on staying/getting healthy, eating well, sleeping and focusing your energy where it is needed! This Peaking program works extremely well if you: Do the training properly and don't do too much (you'll get tired and not race to your potential) Do the training properly and don't do too little (you'll get sick) Even if you are not going to state or nationals this will help you with the last couple weeks of your season and help with any s...