Training week of 6/10

Graphic from a presentation by Dr. David Bailey (Head of Performance, IPT Cycling Academy) and Vanessa Zoras (High Performance Dietitian, Canadian Sport Institute Pacific)

EVERYONE:

  1. Attendance form: you got this

  2. Last week of the spring schedule! Then on 6/17 we’ll switch to the summer schedule. Outline of that here.

  3. Energy & fueling: some of the coaches recently logged into a FIS-organized seminar about Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs), which is a topic of ongoing education for us. The graph to the right stood out to us and we’ve been talking to a number of the juniors about it, but it’s useful information for everyone: eating breakfast matters and eating snacks also matters. [To view that graphic bigger, right click and open it in a new tab.]

JUNIORS:

  1. What the US Ski Team wants juniors to be working on: USST devo coach Greta Anderson gave a good presentation on juniro development goals last month. You can read about it and/or view that presentation and/or listen to it here.

  2. Video from today: for those who worked with Pepa today, video is here. Be ready for intense music.

  3. Training cycles: we shifted around some of our weeks to have the easy and hard weeks line up more logically with various events in the lives of skiers + coaches. That has put us on more of a 4-week cycle than usual: we have a couple chunks that go easy week, medium week, hard week, hard week. Y’all will crush it.

  4. Spring check-in meetings: we’re getting through most of you! Pin us down if you haven’t had a chance to chat. There will be more opportunities after we switch to the summer schedule, too.

  5. OMG Rollerskiing: whew we’re making progress on getting everyone outfitted. We will be ordering some more stuff this week to fill in the gaps.

  6. Get a watch. Bring it to practice. Self-explanatory. Needs to tell the time. If you want to get a little fancier, it could give you lap splits. Even fancier comes with a heart rate monitor or GPS. But let’s just start with a device that lets you count minutes.

  7. Note that Sunday’s practice is off-campus.

U14s:

  1. Get a watch. Bring it to practice. Self-explanatory. Needs to tell the time.

  2. Note that Sunday’s practice is off-campus.

BKL:

  1. We’re off and running! We won’t get to rollerskiing this week, but we will soon.

  2. Sunday: if any of you want to chase around the U14 group on their Sunday hike, you’re welcome to—but you need to bring an adult, please! We don’t have enough coaches for all you wild BKLers. We’ll be meeting @ Midway Lodge and doing various routes from there. Just shoot the coaches a note if you plan to join.

BIATHLETES:

  1. Junior/U14 biathletes:  same old stuff: you should all bring poles and gloves to simulate winter biathlon conditions (this is not necessary for BKL).

ADULTS/MASTERS:

  1. Nothing unusual to report here!

Anna Schulz