First Month

We've been training as a team for just over a month now - it's been a good month. I'm thrilled with how the team looks - they've done a great job of executing the training and everything else. If things continue the way they're going, it's going to be a great season.

We wrapped up this week with a long classic rollerski that included some specific strength work. Today was a perfect day for working on little technique adjustments, and Ollie and I kept up a steady nagging for most of the workout. The changes are coming along - we'll be a much sharper team by the time we're on snow. People showed remarkably little fatigue from yesterday's bounding intervals at Pineland - we tested out a new workout, a hybrid session with several minutes of moosehoofing at threshold before finishing with a kick up to VO2max pace. It was a surprisingly hard workout, and the wet weather we've had made it tougher, but everyone handled it really well.

Speaking of Pineland, here are some photos from last week's XC race, courtesy of Nick:

Colman ran through the background and ruined this perfectly good shot of me.

Scott's had a great season - he's had some breakthrough races and is running fast enough to make the top 7, which extends his season by another 2 weeks. This is both good and bad.

The last hundred meters of Maren's season - good to have her back with us.