Hey!
So obviously the frequency of my blog posts has died down a bit since World Juniors, but I’m still alive!
So after World Juniors my results took a little hit for a bit, for the 3 weeks that I was in Germany my regular training got a bit interrupted and my performances thereafter were a bit compromised because of this. Nonetheless, I still managed to get quite a few good races in during the later part of the season. My classic races never seemed to go quite as well as I would have liked, but my skate races were all pretty good. At Nationals, the skate individual start race went very well. Similarly, the hill climb race at Fort Kent went really well, and I managed to finish just 8 seconds behind Andy Newell. Other races, like the skate race at Stowe, the skate and classic races at the Orford, and the races at Rimouski, were good races as well.
I also had the opportunity to be a forerunner at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic games. This was a really awesome experience, to be able to be so close to the athletes, watching the races so close, it was awesome.
So now the season is over, I took a bit of downtime and I’m back up and training again. I applied to go to CNEPH, and I was accepted, but I decided to stay here to train. I was already being coached in a way I knew worked for me, I had school here, and I have a home and a girlfriend here, so I decided to stay.
So I’ve slowly gotten back into training. In April, I took it easy for a bit then started trying to get a nice strong base in strength, so I would go to the gym 4 times a week, all the while getting my biking and running legs back. Starting in May, I began my training back in full, lowered my gym workouts to 3 times a week and started getting some longer zone 1 in, with a couple tempos from time to time.
I’m also planning on doing some pretty intense things in the near future. I’ll probably end up going on a canoe trip soon, as well as going on a 24 h adventure race, funds permitting.
I'll probably be updating a bit more often than I have in the last little bit, so stay posted!
If I get the time in the next little bit, I'll post some pictures of my exploits!
