LHS Nordic Ski Team Blog!!

Please check out our new web page. It has a lot of the information for the up coming season! Yay! Here is the address... http://lhsnordicskiing.pbworks.com/

July 11th 11am at Presbyterian Church 1251 S. Park Loop Road - Jackson Memorial Service for Willie Neal 1pm at Trail Creek Nordic Center 1 mile west of Wilson, up highway 22 at the base of Teton Pass Gathering in honor of Willie

We are on a volume week so here is the plan. You all are welcome come Tuesdays and Thursdays for strength and yoga. We are meeting at the high school weight room at 5:15 pm. Monday: 50 min. LSD your choice Tuesday: 0:30 min. Strength Circuit (or meet at the high school) Wednesday: Zone 3 Natural Intervals 1:00 Thursday: Strength 0:30 Circuit or meet at the high school Friday: 55 min Run Zone 1 Saturday: 50 min. Rollerski with 10 min Double pole Sunday: 1:00 hour hike

Well its summer time and the live'n is easy and its time to train! I will be posting training suggestions again through out the summer. Sense this week is almost over your work out for the day is to go and find a calender, journal spred sheet or some other method of loging your training for the summer! Remeber the only way to improve is to know what you have done well in the past and continue it. As well as discontinueing the things that are not going well!

The University of Wyoming Nordic Ski Camp is an annual event that brings in athletes from the entire region. It is unique in that it is setup by the coaches of the UW Nordic Ski Team but all activities are lead by UW Nordic Team college athletes . This leads to an amazing experience for the high school skiers who have a chance to talk about not only skiing but college, what it's like, why they should go, what to expect, etc. from athletes ranging from Freshmen in college to graduate students. In addition the camp attracts many great speakers. This year's camp will include UW Campus Recreation Head Trainer Angela Kopriva and Swix ski wax rep Phil White along with other great people. Finally, it's a chance for your athletes to get some time on snow in June , for the camp we ski every morning for 2-3 hours and then do dryland activities in the afternoon. The afternoons and evenings are used for lectures by the UW coaches, experts on nutrition, training and sports psycholog...

It's Here! Our end of the banquet will be April 2nd at 7:00pm at the LHS Cafeteria. Please bring your favorite desert and your sweet tooth! We will be announcing letter winners at our banquet this year. As well as our usual awards. Bring your uniform and any equipment that you borrowed for the season. Hope to see you all there!!

By Justin Freeman Saab Salomon Factory Team Level four, roughly speaking, is race pace. And so for those of us who like to race, it is an easy level to train in. The goal of level four training is straightforward: by skiing at the same pace and effort you race at, you get better at racing. The downside to level four training is that racing and race-type efforts put serious stress on your body. This is one reason that training in levels three and five is so important. But when you are getting ready to go fast, nothing beats training at race pace. I should be a little clearer about my definition of level four. The definition I use when running is a pace that you can maintain for 12 minutes. Since skiing involves going both up and down hills, it might be more like a race pace for a 20 minute race; regardless, it is a touch faster than 10 km race pace. You should reach your maximum heart rate when doing level four traini...