Training week of 9/16

EVERYONE:

  1. Winter program information and registration: info and schedule are finalized here. Remember it’s a good idea to make sure you know how to log into your account and ensure your membership is current!

  2. Attendance form yes, always and forever

  3. Team shirts: if you ordered one and haven’t picked it up yet, please do so. Right inside the clubhouse door.

JUNIORS:

  1. An easy week has arrived! Woohoo. Many of you have exercise lives that are also at the whims of xc/soccer/bikes, but if you’re mostly on the ski training plan this fall: take a chill week.

  2. General coach musings about training: (keeping this here for one more week, cuz #knowledge)

    • During the school year, you have limited time to squeeze in training. Use your time productively. Treat your warmups and cooldowns like actual training and focus on executing the workout well. If you dilly dally about for just 10 minutes per practice twice a week all year long, that adds up to almost 20 hours of training time. Wild!

    • Pay attention to the little aches and pains, especially if you’re running a lot all of a sudden. Don’t let them get really bad before you seek out advice from a medical professional.

  3. “Free fall” rollerski races in Burlington this Sunday! The name is a bit confusing—these are not actually free. But we’re taking the team. Or at least anyone on the team who wants to go. Registration + info here; make sure you fill out the detailed Sunday attendance options with your desired pickup location.

  4. Looking ahead to winter: Here are all the details that exist so far re: the Eastern Cup schedule & Craftsbury’s team travel plans.

U14s:

  1. Business as usual this week. Make sure you’re not overdoing it if you’re coming to practices and doing a fall sport with school.

  2. Sunday: if you’re hankering to do a rollerski race in Burlington, you’re welcome to register for the Free Fall, but otherwise there’s a practice for you as normal at COC. (If your XC team is racing Saturday, maybe skip the rollerski race…)

BKL:

  1. Back to normal shenanigans this week! Hope you had fun canoeing last week.

BIATHLETES:

  1. CCD Bikers: no biathlon session for you this week due to your practice being offsite

  2. End times: practices generally end 45 minutes after the start time listed on the training plan

  3. Events coming up this winter:

    • World Jr Trials: for U17 or older, if you want to race in World Jr Trials (selection races for representing Team USA on international trips) those are in Soldier Hollow the week after Christmas. We will send a Craftsbury coach and we do have a couple families planning to go. Age categories for those races are youth and junior only. Reach out with questions

ADULTS/MASTERS:

  1. Back to usual this week with both Wednesday and Sunday practice.

Coaches forgot to take photos this week, so to the archives we go. Then-U14s on a Highland Lodge ski in 2020!

Audrey Mangan