Been Awhile, eh?

Let’s just do a sort of random camp update style thing.

• the Ideal Market in Cable has some of the best pizza i’ve ever eaten.
• I’m not really sure if it’s been announced anywhere yet, but we have some new teammates on CXC.  Rebecca Dusault is one of them, and she came out to Hayward for a few days this last camp.  Compton used to be our big gun on the team, and i hadn’t really realized, when she went elsewhere, what a big hole it would leave.  Not saying that Compton could ever be replaced, but it sure is nice to have a veteran tough skier chick who’s been there, done that, back on the team again.  Not to mention, she’s awesome to throw down in intervals with.
• Another awesome tough skier chick?  Igor’s wife, Nina Gavrilyuk.  Holy moses, that woman can ski.  I mean, like really really.  She’s got like, 3 gold medals.  And she brought them with.  I touched them.  And literally, got shivers.
• Nina and Igor have been getting on me about using my arms more.  And I guess, it makes a lot of sense.  I’ve got a total of four appendages…probably shouldn’t forget about two of them.  So I’ve been really working on that a lot lately.  And since the arms are connected to the core, I’ve been trying to think about using that more too.  My mental cue is to just make sure i feel a contraction every time i pole.   And not to leave the legs out, it’s been pointed out that i ride a very straight leg when gliding.  “Bend your ankle more” is used so often as a technique key phrase that it’s almost cliche, but I guess it really is what i need to work on.  Sigh…that’s a lot of things to think about.
• We did another speed block, our second and final of the year, and i felt much better this time.  Only started getting really tired the day after we were done, on our last easy distance ski of the camp.  Last time i was wiped out, so i guess that’s good.
• Last afternoon of camp we spent doing trail work on the Birkie trail.  We limbed and cleared about 2k of trail, which doesn’t sound too impressive, but it sure takes a long time to do it.  But it is nice that every time we ski that trail this winter, we’ll know we did a little to make it that much better.

Hmmm…what else?  Not much from camp, but….

• One of our strength consultants, Steve Myrland, just sent me the sweetest list of key russian phrases, all spelled out phonetically.  Awesome for dealing with crazy russian coaches named Igor! Thank you Steve, that seriously just made my day!

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