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