Sam: Ski Update

SO MUCH WORK. That's what this time of the year brings. Everything speeds up and all of the end of the semester assignments aren't so far away anymore.

It's also a big time of the year for ski training. I don't know how many times I've heard my dad say, "These next six weeks are really important." It's a lot. Since everyone's heading home for break today we've had a couple of big workouts in the past few days so that the time at home could be fairly relaxed. We ran the Westford Turkey Trot 10k on Saturday. It was a fun community filled race. A lot of the ski club my dad belongs to, Northwest Vermont Endurance, was there, which was fun because it was a lot of people from around my hometown.

NWVE sends out an email after each race. They're usually pretty entertaining. My favorite bit from the Turkey Trot Report:

"With Camille Bolduc (the two-time female driveway dash champion) graduating to the 2 (~1.7) mile event, NWVE had no athletes in the first wave. (NOTE: The first wave was the 50 m dash for kids) None-the-less it was one of the more exciting races in memory with an intimidating stare down between the top two finishers, to a happy go lucky gallop, and the traditional terrified tears created by the phobia inducing tunnel of giant grownups clapping and cheering louder to encourage the emergent athlete in what creates an unfortunate terminal circle of fear and cheer. I was late to the start so no word on how any of the wagering went on in the kid’s race."

On Sunday we did a long double pole roller ski. Today we had an early morning interval session that went very well. It's finally almost Turkey Day and I'm ready for a few easy days.

While the only two boys currently on the team have been finishing up the cross country running season the girls have been working hard. Having only two of us back from last year (Kat and I) it's really exciting to see such a great girls team coming together. We're looking ready for snow!

NENSA races start up as early as the beginning of December, so cross your fingers for that white stuff we love.

I'm really starting to get antsy, so I was looking at ski pics from last year. I stumbled upon these two videos and this great picture, which were from one of my favorite days of practice last year. It was snowing so hard that we couldn't even make it to Stowe so we ended up out in the 3's field building jumps and having snowball fights. Check out Colin, Kat, and Josh below...