It snowed on and off all day here in Canmore.
![](http://noahhoffman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/005.jpg" "Canmore Clouds")
Kris Freeman and I got up early to do a skate intensity session before the two kilometer loop got too crowded. Even though we started skiing in the dark at 7:45, we weren’t even close to the first people on the track.
Kris did 3 by 15 minutes of threshold (a pace you can sustain for at least an hour). I joined him for the first 5 minutes as part of my warm-up. Then I did 12 by 30 seconds at sprint race pace. It was a new interval workout for me. The purpose was to ski fast without working too hard ahead of Monday’s time trial. Here’s some video of both sessions:
The rest of the team did distance. Here are Simi Hamilton (left) and Skyler Davis working on technique without poles (or rocking out in Skyler’s case):
![](http://noahhoffman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/008.jpg" "008")
And Stratton Mountain School’s Sophie Caldwell doing the same:
![](http://noahhoffman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/002.jpg" "Sophie Caldwell")
And Jessie Diggins:
![](http://noahhoffman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/009.jpg" "Jessie Diggins")
Here is coach Jason Cork leading US Ski Team athlete Tad Elliott:
![](http://noahhoffman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/010.jpg" "Tad Elliott and Jason Cork")
It snowed hard at times today as evidenced by the Vancouver 2012 Mascot outside our hotel window:
![](http://noahhoffman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/012.jpg" "Vancouver 2012 Mascot")
