We have less than a month until the London Summer Olympics begin and anticipation is building across the globe. Last Wednesday, June 27th, we celebrated Olympic Day right here in Craftsbury, Vermont at Hosmer Point summer camp. About 60 kids aged 9-14...
Today was a beautiful day for acombi OD and while the REG campers skated and ran around craftsbury, we classic skied and then ran/hiked over Stratton.everyone skied for 1-1.5 hrs, then changed to running shoes and ran/hiked for another 1-1.5 hrs.Pip.Fl...
We had another beautiful day of training this morning in Richmond. The group rollerskied along Cochran Road, working on specific strength and double-pole. After an hour of rolling, the athletes changed into their sneakers to do some trail running along...
This morning we had a huge group out on the roads for double pole intervals at the Eastern REG. Our Elite Team and the Craftsbury Green Team set the pace and the big group of REG athletes jumped in and got to push themselves by following some mor...
This week forty of New England’s top junior skiers came to Craftsbury for a training camp so we’ve had lots of company on the trails and roads during our training sessions. The first few days were cold and wet so we were all very excited ...
Click here for more photos from this afternoon's skate ski. Women and J2s went together and guys headed to the other side of town to split up the group on the roads. Above, SMS skiers Koby & Jack hop in behind the USST's Ida Sargent on ...
With 14 athletes and 2 coaches at Craftsbury for the REG, our group is pretty small this week. Today we worked on double pole technique and specific strength. We are working on using the arm swing to pull the body up and forward into a dynamic sta...
A quick REG update: we did a bounding workout this morning at Craftsbury in the field near the Green Team house. We're about to hit up lunch and then we've got a recovery skate ski for all groups this afternoon with the SMS Elite Team and t...
By request, we’re looking at how the length of World Cup sprints has changed over time. Specifically, since the length in time of the effort is really more meaningful than the length of the course in terms of distance, that’s what we’ll consider. So the following graph shows the average of the top five qualification [...] Related posts:
Hello from Craftsbury! If you have a strong desire to remember what mid-November feels like, come up to northern Vermont - it's been a little chilly here lately. : ) The weather hasn't slowed this group down though and REG has been go...
Andy, Bill and Gus discuss the workout.Bill and Gus with Erika, Sophie, Eric and Andy.This was the same workout that we did yesterday with a bunch of kids. The goal is to get a baseline for the 10 km skiing L3. We got times, average heart rates and Lac...
Training for next week (July 2 - July 8):Monday 8:30 - 10:30am at the Range. Skate rollerski plus intro to biathlon!Wednesday - Next Wednesday is the 4th of July and we will not have organized training. Coach Erin Mallory will be at a 5km race in Colc...
Summer Vid of the DP testMore vids here: SMS XC Vimeo Channel
This morning we did a 10 km continuous L3 workout. The course started with a 6 km uphill and then rolled for the last 4 km. Our goal is to build a strong aerobic platform and this is a good workout to improve aerobic fitness. We will do the same workou...
Since I’m starting to accumulate a reasonable collection of heat times from World Cup sprint races, I thought it might be interesting to compare general trends between the few seasons I have data on. The biggest trends that you can typically see are the differences in tactics between the men and women. Generally what I’ve [...] Related posts:
As we head into our camp season we are grateful for our beautiful valley and humbled by the dynamic nature of recent summer weather systems. Today we watched the radar closely and managed to have two safe and quality sessions on roller skis...
Happy Birthday little brother! Chad and I planned to go for a ski tour on Sunday to celebrate our Birthday. However rain and snow is not the best combo so we opted for a a traverse over Lucky Jim. The weather cleared up as we ran along the top. ...
Here is my first attempt at the SMS blog. I'll just stick with a few photos this time of Andy, Eric, guest Mikey Sinnot, Erika, and Sophie on a long easy OD over the NY border. Andy has said it over years and I'm inclined to agree, best rol...
These last days I've spending in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, with one of my new favorite discoveries has been Antelope Island out in the Great Salt Lake. Wide open roads shared with as many buffalo and antelope as vehicles makes for a great...
With our Elite team off roller skiing, our Devo team resting and a bunch of the kids headed up to the REG camp, we had a small, but spirited group for our hike/run this morning. We all started at the base of the gondola and headed up and around the bac...