Not so fast! Before you bask in the bliss of a rest week after a lot of volume training, the WinSport Junior Team recommends some intensity to flush the legs out. They recently did their workout, dubbed the 'Early Morning Pain Train,' at 6:45 a.m. the day after an altitude training camp.
The Alberta World Cup Academy is inviting participants to its third-annual Spray Drag running race up Spray Lakes Road on Oct. 12 in Canmore, Alberta. Winners take 50 percent of the proceeds, and a Lactate Challenge is also on the table.
Thirty-six men in the Spray Drag running race didn’t end up chasing Devon Kershaw up Spray Lakes Road in Canmore, Alberta, on Saturday, but they had one heck of a battle from the start. According to American Sylvan Ellefson (Ski & Snowboard Club Vail/Team HomeGrown), the pace was fast for a bunch of nordic skiers early on. “Any road runner could have pulled away, but it was a quick pace,” he wrote in an email....