We wrapped up a busy week at Gould, as fall sport athletes joined the Competition Program crew in Nordic Training. So of course first thing, we threw everyone into competition! Things started off last Saturday with Maine Winter Sports Center’s Lobster Roll on...More »
Tonight the coaches took a quick drive down to Tripp Middle School to set up the calendar for the Maine Junior Ski League which our 8th grade Winter Term skiers can compete in. Kirk Siegel, the Telstar MS coach setting up his race: It was...More »
Tonight the coaches took a quick drive down to Tripp Middle School to set up the calendar for the Maine Junior Ski League which our 8th grade Winter Term skiers can compete in. Kirk Siegel, the Telstar MS coach setting up his race: It was...More »
Campus lit up again on Thursday as skiers came back to school. Thursday AM started out with a distance DP workout from school, and Thursday PM we jogged over to Pine Hill for a an exceptional speed workout: Grass Skiing 10/19/12 from Gould...More »
On Thursday, we had all school “Mountain Day”, a surprise day where school is cancelled and all students are sent to Tumbledown Mountain to hike for the day. The nordic team tore it up! Here is the lake just below the peak where...More »
15 km of new pavement has been put down on East Bethel and Interval roads, two of our favorite spots for rollerskiing in Bethel because of the terrain and the low traffic count, which makes about 30 continuous kms of great rollerskiing less than...More »
Today we did L3 intervals on East Bethel road. Sadie did the intervals sans poles due to her broken finger (and her coaches’ interest in hammering the speedskater drill into her brain… success!), and Ashton did them DP only. The interval was 2.6...More »
Today we did L3 intervals on East Bethel road. Sadie did the intervals sans poles due to her broken finger (and her coaches’ interest in hammering the speedskater drill into her brain… success!), and Ashton did them DP only. The interval was 2.6...More »
By Sadie The title of this post should explain it all, but in case it doesn’t… I had such an amazing time in Wyoming. It was my first time to the Midwest and I can’t believe how beautiful it is. We got to...More »
On Wednesday morning we took a trip down to Cody to 1) get some intensity in where the air is a little richer, and 2) check out the town! We started out with some DP drills to get warmed up for 3x (3km...More »
We’ve been waking up by alternating some short morning jogs and easy yoga. On Tuesday we went out for a distance rollerski. Sweetser started things off with a few body position drills: The boys heading up some classic Western terrain – long, steady...More »
We took off for a longer OD on Monday morning up high. Way up, a loop between 10 and 11k feet. We chose terrain that was a little bit flatter to avoid the “up and down” effect of mountain climbing workouts. Sarah Dominick...More »
We woke up at the 7D Ranch on Sunday morning with the MWSC crew. Having come in late on Saturday night, waking up was our first real look at the scenery. We took a short morning hike up a nearby mountain to get...More »