Back to Canmore

I just returned to the beautiful Canmore, Alberta. I trained here last year for 2 weeks and then competed in the World Cups here last December. It is always such a treat to come back here and ski. The people are so nice, the ski trails are amazing, and the camp itself is going well.

This past week I was in Park City at another ski camp so this camp is pretty much a continuation of that camp. Out schedule here is pretty much the same every day: wake up, train, eat, rest, train, eat, sleep. Repeat.

This will be my last volume block before I start hitting it hard before our first races in Weat Yellowstone in a month. I can't wait for the rest of the training here this week. It looks like we are going to have a classic sprint and a time trial one day after the other, right before we leave. It'll be a good way to end the camp.

When we return home, I get to jump in the classroom again and Ski and Snowboard Club Vail has blown snow at the bottom of the mountain for us to ski on before our first competitions. This is really nice because we can't assume we will receive natural snow before our first races, so to guarantee snow to have so we don't have to spend the first week before those races getting out "ski legs" ready, is amazing.

Below are some pictures from the past week!

Until then,

S

Matt Liebsch riding the kids airplane in Midway, UT

After workout smoothie

Rollerskiing in Utah up Wolf Creek Pass

More rollerskiing with the camp

Running with the crew

Golfing with my buddy Nate on the last day. He out me up for the week which was generous and we got to catch up after not seeing him for awhile. We went to Bates College together.

Canmore this morning. So beautiful!

The trails we are skiing on. Frozen Thunder the Canadians call it.

Camp Time

The past two weeks have been great. My teammate, Tad Elliott, came up to Vail for two weeks of training before we headed towards Park City for a US Ski Team camp. We had a very productive two weeks. We got in some great intervals and some long good sessions as well. 

Last weekend, Sarah ran her very first 50k trail run! Super cool and to top it all off she ended up getting 3rd place among all the women and even got 9th overall. I was so proud of her. She worked so hard for that race and I'm so happy to see her so proud of her effort as well. Super well deserved.

I sniped a picture of Sarah as she was hiking up a steeper part of the trail.

Sarah racing across the back bowls of Vail.

Sarah crossing the finish line in 5:48. About 1.5 hours ahead of the time she had hoped to finish in.

My buddy Josh and I ran with her for part of the way to give her some encouragement. We had some fun along the beautiful route.

I finally got a picture with my new 4th grade class at Red Sandstone Elementary School! Such a great class and I look forward to more great times later in the season when the skiing schedule settles down. 

Lastly, I reunited with a friend of mine this past weekend, Taylor Shelden, to race a race in Pagosa Springs, CO called the Epic Mountain Challenge. It was an amazing innagural year for the event with over $60,000 in cash purse which naturally attracted the likes of the nations top runner and mountain runners. 

I honestly think I had one of my best half marathon mountain races and I was almost 8 minutes behind the winning time. Amazing talent here which was really cool. 

Taylor during the 3km uphill mountain bike TT today in which he placed 2nd. 

Me (in the white) at the beginning of the 10km mountain running criterium.

I had so much fun racing with Taylor. We hope to go back next year and battle it out again!

Onto Park City!

Best,

S