Norwegian junior skier Martin Sundby has taken a giant step in the right direction this season and has until now clearly been the best male junior racer in the country. There are (despite this) experts that are claiming that this giant talent is training wrong.
Many Are Telling Me That My Training Is Wrong
FasterSkier · January 7, 2004
 and showed that the other juniors will have a hard time beating him this season. They have experienced exactly that. Sundby won the first qualification race for Junior Worlds (the 30 k) by two minutes.</p><p>– I have trained well and hard all fall. It’s not surprising that things are going well. My training base is solid and I have clear goals for the training, says Sundby.</p></div><div class=)
Sundby explains that an early fall dryland camp with the junior National team signaled that he was on track. He won a (mostly) uphill running time-trial by more than 40 seconds in competition with the entire Norwegian junior elite.
 viewed as a bit unique.</p><p>– I’m doing lots of hard training – interval training around 90-95% of max heart rate. I’m also the type of person that likes to go (a bit) fast in distance training. I feel that it makes me physically and psychologically stronger.</p><p>Many are very skeptical to this type of training program?</p><p>– Many are of the opinion that I’m training wrong. It’s therefore lots of fun to be able to prove that it’s at least working for me, says this seasons dominating junior racer.</p></div><div class=)
You are not going hard all the time?
– It’s important to find the right balance between hard and too hard. It’s important to be able to recover. I have managed that better this season. Maybe better than many other skiers, says Sundby.
This season is just a step toward more important things for Sundby and he is not very focused on looking at the time difference (back) to the other juniors.
-I like to look at the distance up to the seniors. My goal is to become a good senior. I won the junior class at Lillehammer by two minutes, but it was still 3 minutes up to the best seniors, so it’s still a bit to the top, says a goal oriented Sundby.
He is not afraid that he is peaking too early and explains that he has trained a lot up until now and should be able to make further progress. He wants to peak in February at the junior Worlds at Stryn, Norway. I’m careful about goals but I hope to fight for top spots, says Sundby.
You said that you had clear goal for your training?
Ok, I admit that the goal is Gold.