Time Trial and More

Erik BjornsenSeptember 6, 2009

a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pZgXW6b1QMk/SqQbYVJLy1I/AAAAAAAAADU/vO6NvdnfOuw/s1600-h/8122_1089096398582_1561620069_30209510_4670973_n.jpg”img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pZgXW6b1QMk/SqQbYVJLy1I/AAAAAAAAADU/vO6NvdnfOuw/s320/8122_1089096398582_1561620069_30209510_4670973_n.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378453959793691474″ //abr /divspan class=”Apple-tab-span” style=”white-space:pre” /span/divdivspan class=”Apple-tab-span” style=”white-space:pre” /spanLast week during our training week in Whistler we had the chance to compete in a time trial with the US ski team and Sun Valley ODT team, which includes some of the best sprinters in the world. We raced it like we would a winter sprint race, with a qualifier and three rounds. I raced the quarter finals with the B group placing top two allowing me to advance into the A group to ski two more rounds with them. It was a great opportunity to see how some of the best guys in the world tactically ski. I learned a lot from skiing with them, and feel like I have made good improvements this summer with my speed training. I finshed the finals in third place behind Andy Newell and Torin Koos. Sadie also had a good race and placed second behind World Cup winner Kikan Randall. We are both feeling confident with where our speed is at this time and excited to move into a new fall phase of training.br //divdivimg style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pZgXW6b1QMk/SqQagAFitHI/AAAAAAAAADM/zZuaunmhWkk/s320/8122_1089100678689_1561620069_30209574_2085060_n.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378452992068596850″ //divdiv style=”text-align: center;”Finishing up the dishesbr //diva onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pZgXW6b1QMk/SqQafi4wO2I/AAAAAAAAADE/Tq7L77Mbs3A/s1600-h/8122_1089099998672_1561620069_30209565_4628409_n.jpg”img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pZgXW6b1QMk/SqQafi4wO2I/AAAAAAAAADE/Tq7L77Mbs3A/s320/8122_1089099998672_1561620069_30209565_4628409_n.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378452984230329186″ //adiv style=”text-align: center;”The turf field we got to play on/divdivimg style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pZgXW6b1QMk/SqQae6DFgwI/AAAAAAAAAC0/lbJ7n-YHU58/s320/8122_1089095358556_1561620069_30209496_3275855_n.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378452973267813122″ //divdiv style=”text-align: center;”On one of our runsbr //divdiv style=”text-align: center;”img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pZgXW6b1QMk/SqQZ5F6D2VI/AAAAAAAAACc/djNQG7ejt2w/s320/7727_1209080781048_1049551566_643185_2713402_n.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378452323616151890″ //divdiv style=”text-align: center;”The top of Black Tusk/divimg style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pZgXW6b1QMk/SqQaNUQabHI/AAAAAAAAACk/FSrbR2R8_F4/s320/7727_1209081501066_1049551566_643203_1553757_n.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378452671065386098″ /div style=”text-align: center;”The view from the topbr //diva onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pZgXW6b1QMk/SqQaerDI_kI/AAAAAAAAACs/w-q7lAermgk/s1600-h/7727_1209082141082_1049551566_643219_6690246_n.jpg”img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pZgXW6b1QMk/SqQaerDI_kI/AAAAAAAAACs/w-q7lAermgk/s320/7727_1209082141082_1049551566_643219_6690246_n.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378452969241509442″ //adivdiv style=”text-align: center;”This is the lake that you can see in the picture above. Pretty cold but it was nice because we still had 10 Km left to run./divdiv style=”text-align: center;”br //divimg style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pZgXW6b1QMk/SqQZHHsNTKI/AAAAAAAAACM/Jc6EPaJvb0Y/s320/7727_1209078580993_1049551566_643130_6118386_n.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378451465101462690″ /p class=”MsoNormal” style=”text-align: center;text-indent: 0.5in; “The guys room/living roombr //pp class=”MsoNormal” style=”text-align: center;text-indent: 0.5in; “img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pZgXW6b1QMk/SqQYp9Yw_7I/AAAAAAAAACE/ZsMPnal7f1U/s320/7727_1209076420939_1049551566_643079_2133507_n.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378450964119355314″ //pp class=”MsoNormal” style=”text-align: center;text-indent: 0.5in; “The gang after a rollerski./pp/p !–EndFragment– /divdiv class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2910103639238326543-3164364864816941141?l=methowolympicdevelopment.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div

Erik Bjornsen