The first week of summer training is in the books! It was a busy one with a lot of sessions offered, and all sorts of activities. For many of our older skiers it was a pretty big volume week, one of the first such weeks of the training year.
I’m totally impressed with the efforts put forth to capture a great deal of training in a summer week…a group of rising and graduated seniors managed to complete a 3-hour point-to-point run on Wednesday, double pole repeats on Thursday, bike rides on Friday, L3 running miles on Saturday, and an adventurous 3+ hour ski from the MNCC all the way up to the top of App Gap on Sunday. Don’t forget strength sessions, big team sessions like the first day of practice on Tuesday, and individual responsibilities, and you have a great accomplishment.
Cruising through Huntington en route to App Gap
Not everybody in this club was out training for 16+ hours this week, and that’s totally fine! We had a handful of skiers complete their first-ever laps of Sprint Loop at the Range on Tuesday, which is not an insignificant milestone to cross. Improvement comes in all sorts of ways. We ended our first practice session with a big tug-of-war match and got some of the MNC University kids involved too…you’ll have to place your bets on who won.
Another “bonus” option this week involved a great use of the new club space at the MNCC. Sharon Henry and Coach Sara combined their PT skills to have a group of athletes take part in some movement screenings. These were really useful in a number of ways:
- Individual athletes got analyzed for movement patterns and received good recommendations
- Trends and patterns for skiers in general were analyzed by experienced practitioners such as Sharon
- Coaches got to take note of movements and areas to incorporate into our strength training!
So, even if an athlete did not sign up to get a screening done, chances are they will still benefit and be involving themselves in a number of the prescribed exercises and movements going forward. Thank you to Sharon for coming to the MNCC to help us learn!
Top o’ the Gap!
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