a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mrH2aLzeZss/SwqPIGKTmVI/AAAAAAAAAeo/b0Q6he4Z5x8/s1600/Targets+and+Mountains.JPG"img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mrH2aLzeZss/SwqPIGKTmVI/AAAAAAAAAeo/b0Q6he4Z5x8/s200/Targets+and+Mountains.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407291671867267410" //a Just arrived in Canmore, Alberta a few days ago. Site of the 1988 Olympic Biathlon and Cross Country events the venue has seen some remarkable upgrades for recent cross country World Cup races and last season's Youth and Jr. World Championships.br /br /We're enjoying the 2.5km loop of natural and artificial snow. It's fast and the loop they've laid out is pretty sweet. You have your choice of easy terrain or some big climbs. There are numerous Canadian National Team athletes for both cross country and biathlon training here in addition to many of the local clubs so the trails have been busy. Sometimes the downhills seem to be filled with a bunch of moving obstacles as we have to manuever our way through traffic. We've been skiing twice a day, lots of balance and coordination drills, lots of thinking about technique, just trying to find that comfortable feeling on skis. In addition, everyone has new skis to test and ski in so lots of time in the wax room as well!br /br /This is our home for the next two weeks. We'll be training and racing while here with the first NorAm's starting next weekend. More soon...br /br /a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mrH2aLzeZss/SwqIxCfDb5I/AAAAAAAAAeg/mqWttEMwmZU/s1600/Grace+heading+to+train.JPG"img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mrH2aLzeZss/SwqIxCfDb5I/AAAAAAAAAeg/mqWttEMwmZU/s200/Grace+heading+to+train.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407284678673788818" //abr /Heading to trainingbr /br /a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mrH2aLzeZss/SwqUfNq2SVI/AAAAAAAAAew/nQ1EMlOJBxw/s1600/Russell+and+Snowguns.JPG"img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mrH2aLzeZss/SwqUfNq2SVI/AAAAAAAAAew/nQ1EMlOJBxw/s200/Russell+and+Snowguns.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407297566577936722" //abr /Russell in the middle of our last "snowstorm"div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6813061107698506856-4017793293579657353?l=mwscbiathlon.blogspot.com' alt='' //div