We're into that special time of year when the roads are covered with sand after a fleeting mini snowstorm, but there's still no skiing. So far we're muddling through. Last week we took it easy to bounce back from the heavy load of camp - now we're going for one final intensity week before we wrap up organized practices for the semester. We're doing different things for different people this week. It's the time of year when we put a bit more focus on polishing the top end race gears with shorter, faster intervals; however, several of our skiers are feeling OK in the high end department and are looking to build more endurance in the form of long, sustained threshold intervals. A few others are battling illness, injury, or fatigue, and are easing back into harder training. One unexpected challenge that's cropped up is rollerski malfunction - it seems like half the team has had the ratchets stop working on their classic rollerskis. Obviously ratchets wear out, but it's a bit uncanny to see it happening to so many people all at once. My two guesses about the cause are road grit (although this was happening before the snowstorm and heavy sanding) and/or cold temps (the worst of the slippage took place on Saturday, when it was really cold). Who knows - maybe a little of both, maybe just coincidence. Anyway, we're passing around skis and making it work. With any luck, we're right around the corner from snow skiing and a nice long vacation for our hard-working rollerskis.
Here's a team photo from our last day in Foret, courtesy of Shelby:
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