On Sunday, we had our last rollerski time trial of the year (fingers crossed, though, that we won’t have a surprise one in December or anything). It wasn’t our last time trial – there will be plenty on snow – and it wasn’t our last rollerski. But it was our last time going as hard [...]
The unseasonably beautiful weather during the Lake Placid camp broke hard on Thursday night and the blue skies and warm days turned to the more typical cold, cold October rain. Our last two workouts in the Adirondacks were a classic sprint simulation on Friday and a long OD run on Saturday. They were also two [...]
That means go hunting. I bought a small game license and with a little help from the Barnes twins and BethAnn Chamberlain, I landed a couple of grouse. Time for a small feast.
It’s coming in on almost a week now that I’ve been training in Lake Placid with the USST’s last dryland camp of the year. Things started off big last Friday with the Whiteface Hillclimb, a brutal reminder of how much rollerskiing in general sucks and also 45 minute uphills on bumpy pavement against 50mph headwinds. [...]
Yesterday was 10/10/10, and the date of a “global work party” for climate change, organized by 350.org. The idea was for people all over the world to do something productive to help negate climate change, while at the same time raising further awareness of the idea of 350–that is that 350 parts per million is [...]
I’m in Utah’s Heber Valley at biathlon national team camp for a couple weeks. I was a little said to leave VT in peak foliage season. Tim commented about how awesome the fall smells in the east, and I am missing that right now, but the west has it’s own special smells. All the oaks [...]
Quick congrats to Little TR (also known as Tim Reynolds) for being the only GRP man not to leave his breakfast on the Whiteface Toll Road this morning. Climb to the Castle 2010 was a suffer-fest. Timmy was 11th, Matt 19th, Patty 23rd, yours truly 28th, and Big Dilly powered through a tough day for 41st. On [...]
I got back to Elinor’s a couple of days ago from a few week hiatus on the west coast. Pepa and I had talked about getting a solid block of altitude training in during the fall, and with friends in high places I took advantage of my college teammate Simi Hamilton’s hospitality in Ketchum, Idaho [...]
One sunny day in New Zealand we put on lots of sunblock, grabbed our skate skis and headed for the hills. We headed for the farthest-out point on the Snowfarm trail system, paralleling the groomed trail to stay out where the perfectly-smooth crust hadn’t been defaced by the groomer. Soon we were out in the [...]
I normally don’t tend to break too much ski equipment but recently though I have been going through a streak of bad luck. My faithful old pair of V-2 920’s that I got in high school finally broke in spectacular fashion. While doing striding speeds one workout I managed to rip the front wheel completely [...]
I just got back to Craftsbury after spending about a month and a half in New Zealand. Its going to be hard to summarize it all in one blog post without it turning into an epic, but I’m going to try, and then I might give more in-depth accounts in future posts. So with no [...]
Tim and I just finished up a great dryland camp in Sun Valley with a huge group of skiers there from the USST, Sun Valley ODT, Methow, and CXC. After having barely ventured out of Craftsbury all summer it was nice to mix up the training with a new location and some new people. It [...]
One of the benefits of Pepa’s 4-week training blocks is that during that 4th week, when recovery is the focus, I can get out of Craftsbury for a few days. Not to knock our adopted home, but sometimes a guy’s gotta roam. So far this summer I’ve used my recovery weeks to spend a week [...]
Over Labor Day weekend Rosie and I headed to Moab for a some camping and riding with friends from Dartmouth. Moab in the fall is an incredible place with cool night turning to to scorching days in the desert sun. Fortunately our campsite was located right on the Colorado River so we could jump in [...]
Since at least some time last summer, we’ve been talking about running on the northern part of the Long Trail for a workout. Sure, the Stowe area is nice, but there are all these great mountains up near the border that we have never even explored! For some reason, it had never happened. Well, now it [...]
I’ve been hard at work. Basically, I’m not much of an artist. There was a time in high school when I took a full month of sculpture to make an 8 foot long trophy case lock (see picture) model out of cardboard that had moving parts and everything and I got an A+ in that class [...]
At the beginning of August Hans, Eth, Misha, Susan and I headed to a week-long biathlon camp in Jericho. For the rest of the crew it was something they had done before but attending a true biathlon training camp was a very new experience for me. I had certainly never done that much shooting and [...]
I’ll be the first to admit that the idea of blogging has never greatly appealed to me but it really is one of the best ways to show what we do on the Green Team in our daily lives so I am coming around to it. And since my mom keeps asking why I never [...]
Today Lauren and I were coaching the BKL kids, and had them running 2 minute intervals on the trails. We tried to explain that the intervals were supposed to be as hard as possible: run as fast as you can! Go as hard as you can go! Give 100% – this shouldn’t feel like 90% [...]
mo·jo n. pl. mo·jos or mo·joes 1. A magic charm or spell. 2. An amulet, often a small flannel bag containing one or more magic items, worn by adherents of hoodoo or voodoo. 3. Personal magnetism; charm. (from thefreedictionary.com) While running down Bolton mountain a couple of weeks ago, I got into a discussion with one of my biathlon teammates about [...]