One New Zealand Training Camp Comes to an End as Another Begins

Klebl is also tuned into the specific equipment needs for the championships on the calendar in the near future — the 2009 World Championships in Voukatti, Finland and 2010 Para-Olympics that follow the Vancouver Games. This year, the ten and fifteen kilometer events at World Championships are Klebl’s target events. “I’ll also get in a bunch of World Cups in British Columbia (Canada) — at Mount Washington and Callaghan Valley, the Olympic venue. By March this year, my equipment will be totally dialed for Callaghan. It’s going to be really, really tricky conditions. The snow can easily change even once you cross the starting line, let alone testing 45 minutes before your start. At the Olympics I’ll have four entirely different set-ups ready to go at a moment’s notice.”

Stateside, the Continental Cup team finished up their Sun Valley dry-land camp on August Fifth. “We’ve absorbed a lot of training over these last ten days,” said Continental Cup Coach Matt Whitcomb. “Of equal importance is our partnership with the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation. We're meeting with local coaches Travis Jones and Rick Kapala to share ideas about the three athletes (Morgan Arritol, Noah Hoffman, and Alexa Turzian) that split their time between USST and SVSEF, and we're constructing a competitive training group every day to help motivate each team. Aside from Leif Zimmermann breaking his collar bone in a mountain bike crash, we're having a very productive camp.”

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