With American Justin Wadsworth now at the helm of the Canadian National Team, it should come as little surprise that the first camp of the year for the Canadians is being held in Bend, Oregon, in conjunction with the USST. “I wanted my first camp with the team to be really dialed in, in a place I really felt comfortable with,” said Wadsworth on Wednesday “I just wanted a really good quality camp with good dryland training opportunities, and somewhere new for the team.”
The entire Canadian National Team is present, with the notable exception of Alex Harvey, who is currently in school.
While the two countries have different workout plans for most days, the locations are always similar.
For the Canadians, the morning training location is always the same, Mt. Bachelor. The workouts vary from 3 hour distance skis, zone 3 (level 3) intensity sessions, and sprints. Often the Canadians and Americans find time to ski at least a least a few kilometers together, regardless of whether they have the same work out scheduled or not.
In the past, there had not been a lot of coordination of workouts between the two national teams, and while Wadsworth says he and Chris Grover are “not going to force the issue,” the two countries will benefit from working together, “especially our sprinters.”
The sprinters ended up training with each other a large amount. They worked on starts; both teams brought their own start gates, and engaged in head-to-head sprints. “Our sprinters have really had some good opportunities to go against each other,” Wadsworth said.