divOne of the adventures of the Trout Lake camp is climbing the Mt. Adams on the last day. When all the athletes are nice and tired from nearly 4 hours a day of rollerskiing, a time trial, strength testing, and bounding, we test our limits and hike up ...
Tom Petty and his crew had it right when they sang those lines. Given that we train nearly every day one might think we would enjoy the odd rest day, yet when those days do come it is often a struggle and a test of patience to keep from going out the d...
As full-time athletes we have an often monolithic focus on our physical training and improvements. We get stronger and faster in the hope that our prowess in those areas will dictate our success. And though these factors may be primary, it is often nec...
div style="text-align: center;"br //divdiv style="text-align: left;"Last weekend Sam, Jaime, Midge, Scott, Allen Watson, and I went on a 7.5 hr. mountain adventure. Different than most weekend over-distance workouts, we brought out the cramp ons, ropes...
Hey all,br /div style="text-align: left;" So I have officially been given access to the Blog now...I hope I don't disappoint. As always MOD has been focusing on technique interspersed throughout our intensity week and volume week. We've been doin...
div style="text-align: left;"Near the end of last week we did a similar test to the double pole machine on the treadmill. Scott found a treadmill at Pete Dickenson's Winthrop Physical Therapy that would rise to a 15-20% grade. The goal was to find o...
span style="font-size:100%;"In a very fortuitous turn of events the Methow Valley has landed its own first ever SuperTour race, to be held in January 2010 at our FIS-homologated race course located at Liberty Bell High School. This is a spectacular opp...
The MOD Squad just finished up the ninth week of training for the 09 season, a week of testing and marker setting for the upcoming months. We used several modalities throughout the week: double pole machine, running, rollerskiing, and bounding on a tre...
div style="text-align: center;"Jaime Bronga, a training partner from Alaska arrived in the Methow a couple days ago. She will be spending June and July with the MOD team. Jaime is from Anchorage where she attends University of Alaska Anchorage. She is ...
div style="text-align: center;"br //divdivOur last day on snow in Bend with the MOD team included an intense crust ski up to the top of a nearby mountain, Broken Top. Arriving at the hill very early, a group of around 30 US ski team members, Sun Valley...
Training has been going exceptionally well here in Bend, with sunny skies and warm temperatures greeting us every morning at the mountain. We've gotten some great technique work done, as well as a couple strength workouts where we experimented with new...
It’s May 19th, my high school track season is almost over, and it feels like It just started. My history teacher, Mr. Kulsrud has always tried to talk me into running track, so I decided to give it a shot. Last fall Scott challenged me to break 4:40 ...
Yesterday morning Scott, myself, Brian Gregg and Sadie Bjornsen piled into Scott's Eurovan and made the seven and a half hour drive to Bend, Oregon for our first official MOD Team training camp. For the next seven days we'll eat, sleep and train in the...
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It's been a great month of April, with warm weather and plenty of opportunities to get out and enjoy some unstructured "training" before ramping back up into the 09 dryland season. Here in the Methow there's been lots of mountain biking, backcountry co...
As full time ski racers we spend eleven months a year in organized training and racing. The month of April is typically considered a break from this routine. A chance to engage in more unstructured activities, to give especially the mind a brief chance...
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The fat lady just finished singing. For this season at least. I am trying to take stock of the racing season just past and look forward to the beginning of what I know is going to be an even more productive training period through the next summer and...