NENSA has started their #JuneTerm programming with weekly challenges for masters, competitive regional athletes, and youth skiers…but we’d also like to share some ideas every week that our MNC masters can tackle as part of a well-rounded training program!
We have great options every week, including Monday rollerskiing sessions, Thursday running opportunities, and Sunday bike rides (for an update on all these activities, click here).
But our weekly Masters Challenge is going to be focused on an intensity session that can be done in any mode: running, skiing, biking, paddling, hiking, you name it. We will be taking some “traditional” training workouts and styles and sharing them here.
This week’s challenge is a continuous uphill effort (CUE for short!). This is similar to our Uphill Challenge in May, but you’re not limited to running in this endeavor. The goal is to find a hill about 15-25 minutes long and try to go up at a steady pace. For some this will be an all-out effort to maximize the pain, but it doesn’t need to be brutal to be effective. At the end of the summer, you can re-visit your CUE site for a progress-check.
- Some might choose to use the same course they tackled for the Uphill Challenge: it has been over a month since that challenge and now would be a good time to see if some continued work has paid off!
- Some might choose a different mode…find a long road to bike up, a challenging section on a path to rollerski, or a windy day for a paddle: waves count as hills in a watercraft 😉
- You can also choose to take on the MNC Bolton uphill run test, which has GONE VIRTUAL! The Juniors did this test on Saturday, and before the race I re-mapped the course on Strava to ensure it would more easily show up as a segment. The “start” and “end” of the segment are not a little bit inside the actual course…so if you start 15′ uphill from the lower gate (by the “Waffle House”) and end at the plateau just before the top of the chairlift (above the wind turbine) and then add 10 seconds to your Strava segment time, you’ll have your Bolton test record time.
There’s no online requirements for weekly challenges…no submission platform, no media that needs to be sent in…just a chance to get inspired to try adding something to training! Next week (beginning June 15th) we will discuss and implement the always-beneficial “30/30s” into the challenge!
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