pWhoa. It is Nov 2supnd/sup and my first race is in two weeks. Time does fly but, looking back, it has been a productive fall. Let’s rewind a bit. The Ramsau camp went off without a hitch. The snow was not the best this year but I hardly noticed. I really didn’t care what I was skiing on because the scenery on the glacier was amazing enough to make any three hour training session enjoyable. This is my fourth year going to Europe for a fall glacier camp with the Quebec Training Centre and we are getting pretty dialed in. We have learned logistically and training-wise from past camps and now we get the job done without much fuss./p
pAfter traveling back to Quebec, the team took a few quiet days of rest before starting in on an intensity block. Roller skiing, running and ski striding intervals of all different lengths had everyone getting faster with each session. The training volume was pretty low in order to allow everyone to be adequately rested for each workout./p
pI am living with Alex and his family, who have graciously let me stay in their extra bedroom once again. Since I finished my economics course earlier this fall, my afternoons between workouts have been spent mostly reading, broken up by chilling with the boys, dodging the swine flu and drinking coffee. Roberto Bolano’s monster,i 2666/i and Naomi Klein’s iThe Shock Doctrine/i have been keeping me informed and entertained./p
pLife has been nice and calm these last few weeks but that will change on Thursday when I leave for Sweden to start racing on the World Cup!/p
