Testing week, complete

We finished up our dryland testing week on Sunday with an excellent classic roll through the North Country. While overall our team averages appear to have declined some there were several notable records broken, mostly by Leah Hart who looks exceptionally strong right now. Leah broke every record we have except the St. Regis time trial which she ran in 37:52 (record is held by Kalie Dunn'08 37:07) still an excellent time given the very wet muddy condition of the trail. Leah broke her own Double Pole record by nearly a minute at 9:30, the only woman on the team to ever go under 10 minutes and shaved 5 seconds off the no pole skate record now at 9:13. In the 3000meter on the track she is the first woman on the team who is not on the XC running team to go under 11minutes posting a time of 10:53. Other notable results were Kelsey with a time of 38:50 up St. Regis and a 3K of 11:55 both solid improvements over last year.

For the men Adam broke the double pole record by 5 sec, now at 7:42 and also took the win in the no pole skate test. Kyle won the 3K in 9:56 which is his first sub 10min result on this test and only 13 sec off the record held by Angus McCusker'01. Steve took the win up St. Regis in a very respectable time of 31:03, less than 2min off the record of 29:21 held by Tom Lepesquer'07.

Europe is fun

SLU-SKI greetings from Spain...

I just thought that everyone should know that I just bought a plane ticket to the land of fjords, Petter Northug, woolen sweaters, and the birthplace of nordic skiing. That's right, if you haven't yet figured it out, I am going to NORWAY! Tickets were unbelievably cheap--something roughly equivalent to $40 american--so we jumped on the opportunity. Though there probably won't be much snow, if any, as we're going in November, the trip will be a once in a lifetime opportunity. And hey, maybe I'll even pass by Northug, or Bjørgen, or the Sausage somewhere in the streets Oslo.

Hopefully training and fall is treating everyone well. Ski fast.