Foret: the last post

The final post of our stupendous week at Foret and...Dana's last recap of Foret with SLU:/

Thanksgiving was amazing with a wide variety of food, including: 2 turkeys, mashed potatoes, mashed squash, green beans and green bean casserole, homemade cranberry sauce, gravy, 4 pumpkin pies, apple crisp, strawberry/rhubarb pies, maple glazed carrots, peas and carrots, bread rolls, salad, stuffing, and Brussel sprouts! It was a feast and many hands made light work!  This team can eat! We went through a lot of food and especially milk and juice...uhmm hmm boys. 

These posts are mostly pictures since they probably tell more than I can in words.  It was a crazy, but super training week.  We ended the week with a 5k time trial off the 2k manmade loop with other teams, including: Laval, OSI, Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, UVM, Middlebury, UMPI, and Carleton. The course started at a bridge and went slightly down and then a quick up for about 2k, it then took a sharp right turn and went up and up.  It was then rolling into the finish.  The trail was not groomed on the last 3k, and the first 2k was only packed down.  It made for some tricky balancing and uneven skiing, but we persevered.  It was an especially great day for George, Lucy, Jackie and Dana! Some of our team got sick during the week and were unable to start the race unfortunately.  Luckily this race doesn't mean much in terms of what's to come since it was only a time trial and we've had a long, hard volume week..our bodies are tired and ready for a good 2 days of recovery! Nonetheless, we hope it speaks somewhat to what is to come for those who had a great day!

We arrived back on campus Saturday night around 7:30pm and unloaded the vans and trailer.  We headed to Coach Townsend's house for pizza, salad, and wings, and then we trucked back to our dorms for a restful sleep.

Results posted here

SLU Girls on the last day!

SLUSKI Family

Emily and Dana pause from a skate ski

Setting the Thanksgiving table!

Dana wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

Emily, Kate, and Lucy happy about their thanksgiving feast!

Foret looking pretty as always

Hungry skiers happy for all the food!!

Jackie and Kate on Friday thankful for the fresh snow!

Dana happy about the great skiing

Part of the race course on Saturday

Some of the delicious food from our SLU thanksgiving feast!

The view from the bridge at Foret

Some of what we do in our free time

One of the many delicious meals we made for dinner: Chili and Cornbread!

Gabby '21 and Emily '20 during a skate ski off the 2k manmade snow loop!

It started snowing thanksgiving night!! Here's the view from our driveway.

Getting lots of thanksgiving food!! Featuring Ben, Dottie, GH, and Jordan. It was also Ben's Birthday!! 

A view from Quebec City on Tuesday night!

The First year boys thought it would be nice of them to bring back an Ice Trophy from a run for their Captain Dana:)

Tim being a trooper and unplugging the sink :) 

The basement entertainment room became a ski storage room, featuring Nathaniel and Ryland.

The boys passed out in the van on the ride home after a time trial with the other college teams!!

Thanks for reading the blog and we hope you stay tuned in as we prepare for our final four weeks of school before winter break! We hope everyone had as great a week as we did. 

See you on the trails really soon!!

Foret: Post 2

More pictures from our time in Stoneham, Quebec and on the trails at Foret!!  It was a successful, fun Thanksgiving break week and the adventures were many!

Jackie, Erin, Dana, Kate, and Emily out for a skate ski!

The loop! Beautiful Skiing!

Kate'20, Dana'18, and Tim'21 out for dinner on Tuesday in Quebec City!

The team at 10pm at night pranking Matt (asleep on table) that it was breakfast time and he had missed the morning run! He wasn't fooled...

Gabby and Dana!

The team out for dinner on Tuesday night in Quebec City!

Sick photo of dem first year SLU boys in the Pow: Ben, GH, George, and Nathaniel

Dottie takes a selfie with the girls team off of the 2k loop

First Years Tim, Nathaniel, George, GH, and Matt M take a picture at the top of the Alpine Ski Mountain in Stoneham, Quebec on an afternoon run on Thursday, Thanksgiving day!

Aliya'21 and Kate'20 stop for a quick pic

Foret: Post 1

We arrived yesterday afternoon and have since been skiing!! I'll let the pictures do the talking, but so far so good!

The trip! Snow!

Gabby, Tim, and Jackie helping make dinner

Tim showing off our lovely stock of food

First dinner at the house!

Our beautiful holiday home for the week

Eliza, Kate, Dottie, and Jordan

Jackie, Erin, Dana, Kate, & Emily

Matt on the first ski- double skate session (2-2.5hr in am, 1-1.5hr in pm)

SNOW!

By Dana Hatton

Again, sorry for the tardiness of this post.
Last week was a grueling, dig deep kind of week.  We had three intensity sessions on top of volume.  It was the last chance to really get in a quality week before the break and everyone took it well.  We had skate intervals, classical intervals, uphill running intervals at Mt. Arab and a 3 hour skate OD! Phew..we are feeling the success in pain.

Snow at Higley!!! Featuring Sophie- PC: Emily Siegel

On Thursday morning, we woke to snow outside our windows!! It had started pouring around 8 o'clock at night, but switched over to snow around 11! Unfortunately, it was only a dusting, so we were unable to make it a real ski practice. It made for a very cold skate rollerski that afternoon.  However, we got to practice our ice skating because the roads were still slick in some areas.  The road got worse and worse as we made our way to Higley.  AND then!! there was so much snow at Higley!! We went for a run, but we should've been skiing..and by skiing, I mean rock skiing.

Another surprise we throughly enjoyed, on Sat, Nov. 11th, were the 1-mile repeats up Mt. Arab near Tupper Lake, where there was so much snow! It made us jump with joy.  The girls were so excited!  Lots of happy happy nordies!!

This past week we maintained a steady week of morning practices, along with some specific strength and bounding intervals at Higley!

And with that, we have completed 34 weeks of training! We are looking forward to Thanksgiving camp at Foret!! We leave tomorrow, Saturday morning (Nov. 18th), for the seven hour drive to Quebec!

Until then,
Dana

32 Weeks of Training Done

By Dana Hatton

A little late (by two weeks), but it's been a busy few weeks...

It came as a surprise to me the other day that we are more than halfway through our training. Week 32 presented us with a recovery week, with not much to report.  However, we had a great Friday bounding interval session at Seven Springs with a surprise visit from Calvin Swomley '17.  The intensity was up and everyone made great efforts to push over the top of the hill, where Coach Kyle sprinted with us to the finish, making sure we picked up the pace. Gabby was one of many standout performers for the day. 

Before the bounding intervals - PC: Coach Curry

Last Saturday, Nov. 4th, was also successful as we had a great turnout for Higley Trail day! We moved around a lot of wood chips and cleared the trails all morning.  Everyone was in good spirits despite the brisk air and monotonous of the work.

Little Jarvinen Reports

By George Jarvinen '21

Hi all,

My name is George Jarvinen (younger brother of former SLU skier Henry), and I am a first-year here at SLU.  I am from Minneapolis, MN, where I skied for Loppet Nordic Racing under the coaching of Piotr Bednarski and Chris Harvey.  This summer I had the opportunity to go to training camps far away from home, including to Truckee, CA, where I got to meet fellow first-year, Ryland Belisle.

Apart from skiing, I enjoy playing sports that I am bad at, such as soccer and basketball, and I also like reading.  I am planning on following in Matt Young’s footsteps by being a math major or maybe a math-economics double major.

While in the beginning of this school year a lot of the team was sick, (including myself) we are mostly all healthy now and just in time for the St. Regis Hill Climb TT, in which Lucy Hochschartner beat the previous record by over a minute!!

Happy Birthday, Lucy! (Monday, 30th)

Lucy finishing her record setting hill climb!

But by far the most fun we had this week was on Sunday, when we did a two-hour OD skate ski in the pouring rain.  I can’t speak for everyone, but I don’t think anyone on that ski would have rather been elsewhere.

Boys in the rain

-George