Lots of things changing in the last few days. We turned the clocks back last weekend - daylight is scarce in the afternoons now. Fortunately, we're moving into a new period of focus in our training - we're transitioning from threshold work to VO2max work, accompanied by a lower total training volume. Tuesday was our first VO2max session - skate intervals on Highland Road, the biggest hill we can find that's close to campus. We'll expand our boundaries in the weeks to come, but Highland will remain a great bread-and-butter location for our VO2max intervals. This is a fun time of year - everyone's excited to start going hard after we've been holding back for so long. We'll still keep in touch with threshold training, though, with some hybrid sessions and an occasional pace workout.
We're also into a new strength training phase - like last year, we're now finishing our max strength workouts with rollerski sprints. The new hockey arena is almost finished, so we have a beautiful new parking lot to ski in - perfect for sprints. Small groups of athletes skiing in circles also provides a good opportunity to work on technique. We're getting into some very productive training right now - it's an exciting time of year.
No pictures lately, but here's a Lobster Roll video that Ollie put together:
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