Last week during our training week in Whistler we had the chance to compete in a time trial with the US ski team and Sun Valley ODT team, which includes some of the best sprinters in the world. We raced it like we would a winter sprint race, with a qualifier and three rounds. I raced the quarter finals with the B group placing top two allowing me to advance into the A group to ski two more rounds with them. It was a great opportunity to see how some of the best guys in the world tactically ski. I learned a lot from skiing with them, and feel like I have made good improvements this summer with my speed training. I finshed the finals in third place behind Andy Newell and Torin Koos. Sadie also had a good race and placed second behind World Cup winner Kikan Randall. We are both feeling confident with where our speed is at this time and excited to move into a new fall phase of training.
Finishing up the dishes
The turf field we got to play on
On one of our runs
The top of Black Tusk
The view from the top
This is the lake that you can see in the picture above. Pretty cold but it was nice because we still had 10 Km left to run.
The guys room/living room
The gang after a rollerski.
