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This morning we completed the second of four intensity sessions for our seven-day camp here in Sun Valley. Given our focus so far this summer on strength and aerobic base training, these sessions have been a unique challenge for us; it's been great to ...
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In place of some introspective blog post I've decided to offer something light for today's entry. Here they are, the top-5 songs on my IPod this week for training sessions. Judge me, not. span style="font-weight: bold;"br /br /"Just Sixteen" by Velvet ...
Join the MOD Squad and coach Scott Johnston for any one (or more!) of three, 2-day seminars on the secrets of successful endurance training. The clinics will be:br /br /September 24-25 Wenatchee, WAbr /October 9-10 Mazama, WAbr /October 23-24 Kongsberg...
In ideal circumstances, we train long quality hours and recover well in accordance with those hours. Since April things have been going about that well - my hours each week have been consisently high and very good quality and most weeks all I've needed...
While there might be a monstrosity of a strength facility dubbed the Taj Marolt in Park City, the Methow Olympic Development Program takes you behind the scenes to its own gym, known around these parts as the A-Frame of Pain. What it lacks in cubby hol...
Yesterday two-thirds of the MOD Squad (where's Erik? probably sleeping...) plus coach joined a larger group of athletes to complete the beautiful 22mile Enchantments run, a point-to-point 5500ft gain journey in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness outside of Le...
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Three quarters of the MOD Squad was back together in the Methow last week. Scott returned from his travels in Europe and Erik got back from training it up with the Alaska squad. And I've been here, holding down the home fort. We reunited on Saturday wi...
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span style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:130%;"Shirking my coaching duties and leaving the MOD athletes to train on their own I arrived in Europe a few days ago meeting Midge who had already been here a couple of weeks biking the big passes of the ...
My dryland season job this year is perhaps the best I've had yet: junior coach. Three days a week I get to spend a few hours training with the Methow's up and coming teenage athletes as we run and rollerski and bag peaks in the North Cascades. This pas...
span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; " /spanI got home to the Methow last night. Yesterday felt like a long day of travel. Trying to stay awake on the trip home from Park City, Utah was a struggle. It felt great to be able to sleep in m...
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divIm in Park City, Utah training at the NTG Camp. The National Training Group is a group made up of 25 of the top junior and U23 athletes from around the U.S. The camp started off with a brutal hill climb called Agony Hill. The name says enough. I had...
I'm fortunate this summer to be working with the Methow Valley Junior Nordic Team as summer head coach. It's been a great way to stay involved with the program that developed Brian Gregg, Sadie and Erik Bjornsen, me and many other top skiers throughout...
This may be my favorite training period of the year. Putting in back-to-back 18 to 20 hour weeks with the workouts all staying in a level 1 and 2 intensity, using many different modalities and spending hour after hour in the Methow spring landscape. Mo...