St. Lawrence University Nordic Ski Team: Snow, Snow, Snow, Get on the Snow

Monday, December 4, 2017

Snow, Snow, Snow, Get on the Snow

By Nathaniel Perkins '21

After Thanksgiving camp ended, the Saints were allotted Sunday and Monday to rest up for the week ahead. Many took this an opportunity to catch up on sleep or work for the academically and athletically challenging week that lied ahead. On Tuesday, we went for a ski at Higley Flow State Park. The snow was shallow, but the excitement to be skiing again was high. However, the next day it was back to dry-land training for us. We did some running intervals right here in Canton to prepare for the hours in the van that laid ahead. Thursday through Saturday we traveled to Lake Placid to get on the loop ORDA had made down there. The loop was great, but we were definitely starting to get dizzy on the 500M they had pushed out, (especially ab boy GH who is two for two on the Triac breaks this week. I also snapped one, but let’s not talk about it..).

Dana excited about the mini loop in LP followed by Gabby, GH, and Nathaniel

To get on some more snow, we headed up to Nakkertok in Canada for Sundays session.

Team together after a hard interval session with Carleton at Nakkertok in Gatineau, Canada- Sunday, Dec. 3rd

At Nakkertok, we did some L4 intervals with the team over at Carleton University. It was nice to have some other fast skiers there, and we definitely pushed each other in the intervals. This was especially evident by the snoring on the van ride home. It was a tough week for us coming right off camp, but hopefully weeks like this will just make us faster going into race season.

Here We Go Saints!

-Nathaniel

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Some photos from the last day in Canada of our race time trial from our Thanksgiving week break-
Photos taken by Emily Siegel '20