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Photo Roundup from the past week

Whew! Our “recovery week” flew by…

Everyone seemed really tired – mentally and physically – by the end of last week (which was a “volume week” which means is was oriented around longer workouts at lower- to moderate-intensity). So it was great timing to have an easier week of training with shorter workouts and less tiresome workouts.

This morning we had approx 6 of our MNC athletes and several parents make the trek down to Waitsfield for a Central VT Co-op rollerski race. It was a really challenging course along East Warren Rd and finishing up a ~1,000m climb up. The scenery was beautiful and the views downt here are hard to beat.

Pizza and Awards at GMVS

smiling Elliott Ketchel (GMVS) followed by Ben Carnahan up a monster climb!

Ethan John with early in the time trial

Bill Harmeyer heads out of the gate with great form

Tim and Cally about to go through the “football agility course” on Friday evening

Ethan and Will racing head to head through the agility course

working on the agility ladder at the Round Church on Friday

sunset after our ski on Thursday at Mud Pond

a short double-pole interval in the Meadowridge development on Thursday

nice striding from Bill. Great forward lean and serious ankle flexion

practicing some silly, but challenging jumping exercises (power, coordination)

Nathanael helping Will and Greg with their V1 technique. Nathanael has excellent skate technique

Greg making his way up Greystone on Tuesday afternoon. Colors in the background

Tatum Will and Charlie working on a GMAT math question that I gave them last Sunday

Finishing up the rollerski last Sunday out near Milton

double-pole drills in the Sunday sunshine last week

Junior Training 10/7 – 10/20

By Adam Terko on 5 October, 2013 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog, Masters Blog

Coming up: an INTENSITY WEEK:

Tuesday 10/8 = hard bounding intervals @ UVM Research Forest. 4-6pm.
Thursday 10/10 = Rollerski intervals @ Mud Pond, 4-6pm.
Sunday 10/13 = on your own Track or rollerski interval workout. Tim will give specifics.

Followed by a RECOVERY WEEK:

Tuesday 10/15 = Skate rollerski, 4-6pm.
Thursday 10/17 = Classic rollerski, 4-6pm.
Friday 10/18 = Run / agility / strength at MMU or EHS, 4:00-5:45.
Sunday 10/20 = Classic with specific strength at Mud Pond, 9:30-11:30am.

Bonus: Skate Rollerski time-trial Saturday in Waitsfield

By Adam Terko on 2 October, 2013 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog, Masters Blog

The “Central VT Nordic Co-op” hosts another event open to all NENSA members this Saturday. This rollerski is a bonus training for all MNC members. It is a great opportunity to rollerski on some new roads, see the beutiful fall colors in the Mad River Valley, hang out with friends, and get a great workout!

Registration from 8:00-8:30am on the porch of the GMVS Library. We will shuttle skiers to Bridge Street and then warm-up skiing to the height of land just north of the Round Barn.

Race Details: Start 9:15am. 10km for U18+. 5km for U16-. 11:30am Awards in the Dining Hall at GMVS.

Race course:
https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=E+Warren+Rd&daddr=Plunkton+Rd&hl=en&ll=44.160534,-72.79953&spn=0.072411,0.148315&sll=44.182204,-72.799616&sspn=0.036192,0.074158&geocode=FTTzoQIdW_uo-w%3BFSCqoAIdaaeo-w&mra=dme&mrsp=0&sz=14&t=m&z=13

November Pre-Season Announced

By Adam Terko on 1 October, 2013 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog

October 29 – November 21

Join us for our pre-season window of opportunity! Take advantage of the last few weeks of dryland training before your winter starts!

http://www.mansfieldnordic.org/junior-pre-season-training/

Photo Roundup

By Adam Terko on 28 September, 2013 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog

This week of training was a “volume” week, meaning workouts were focused on more continuous efforts at lower- and moderate-intensities. We did a great ski-walking workout at Bolton on Tuesday in which everybody did at least 2 (and some did 3) full ascents of the mountain at moderate intensity! I don’t have pictures but that was an incredible workout considering it was a school night! Each trip up was approx 950′ vertical and 3 miles round-trip so some folks were close to 10 miles and 3000′ vertical.

Thursday we skied at the Range and did some strength exercises. It was another day of intervals of various lengths and some of us were still quite tired from Tuesday. Friday a few of us ran at CVU track and did the 2nd “heart rate zone analysis” in which we run mile repeats at low- to medium speeds and record pace and heart-rate. It was cool to see that a few of us had lower HR’s while running the same speed as 3 weeks earlier. Henry was about the same as the prior test but likely was feeling fatigue from Tuesday/Thursday.

And today was the high-point of the week — doing a group bike ride with several family members including my own. Altogether we started with close to 20 riders that did some different lengths. The athletes along with Murray Banks, Gary Solow, Lawrence Carnahan, Roger Weston and I did the popular Tuesday Night Worlds loop which is an incredibly scenic 36 mile loop. The MVP from this morning had to be Greg Burt who made it the whole way even though it was only his 3rd road bike ride ever! Great job to all.