Going Fast

A short clip from a sprint work out today. This was toward the end of 3 sets of 6 x 30sec. I am impressed in the ability that most on the team have to go really fast on rollerskis. It is considerably, like night and day, faster than the sprinting speed that I had on rollerskis when in college even as a fairly decent college skier myself, a little over ten years ago. I think the anty is always getting upped as to the level of speed training that can be done on rollerskis. There were no crashes and no broken poles during this workout and everytime was a full out sprint.

Ability on rollerskis is something that I have been stressing to the team for the past couple of years now since it is rather hard to work at being forward and aggressive with your technique if you don't have the skill and confidence on rollerskis. I think all the junior clubs and programs are helping a great deal with this as we continue to see an ever higher skill level of the athletes when they enter college.

River Road skate rollerski TT

We certainly were not let down by the weather. Forecast was for clearing by midday but about 5 minutes before we were to start a steady rain accompanied by fog rolled in. About 30 sec after the last finisher it stopped. Results will be posted on the team info webpage probably monday but Zach successfully defended his title making it 4 for 4 winning this event every year since he was a freshman. I doubt anyone had faster times than last year due to the wet road surface. Caroline won on the womens side again as well.

The FLU has descended on SLU and that kept some on the team out of the event and probably out for the next week or so. Hopefully most of them can avoid catching it which unfortunately is rather difficult within the close confines of campus life. I suppose the best we can hope for is for it to run its course prior to Thanksgiving break in Quebec.