Training week of 5/12

EVERYONE:

  • The training plan is here.

  • Registration for summer programs is open via your Craftsbury membership portal, just like in the winter.

  • Rollerski equipment rentals (for juniors and U14s) are also live in the membership portal. Please tackle those ASAP so we can be sure to have enough equipment for everyone before we really get into summer.

  • Planning/communication: we’re back to the same old thing now that we’ve started junior practice: every Sunday there will be a blog post and updated training plan. We’ll nudge you on Slack when things are updated for the week. Then you fill out the attendance form.

JUNIORS:

  • Elmore Time Trial on Sunday! Please read the notes in the training plan. Historical results are here.

  • Getting bloodwork done: we’ve been chatting with most people about this in their goals meetings, but we encourage all junior skiers to get bloodwork done once every year or two. We’ve seen a lot of iron deficiency amongst our junior skiers over the last couple years, which can have pretty rugged effects but is also relatively easily addressed once diagnosed. Just check in with your primary care doctor and say your ski coaches are recommending it!

  • Winter evals + spring meetings: good work to those of you who have completed your winter program evaluations and signed up for spring meetings! If you haven’t done this yet, please do. The meeting signup is linked from the program eval. If you were a U14 this past winter and are moving into the junior group, your program evaluation won’t prompt you to sign up for a meeting, but we’d still love to check in. The meeting signup is here. Holler at us if you have trouble signing up.

  • Audrey shared training logs with those of you who have kept them in the past and/or those of you who are 2nd year U16s whose emails she could glean. If you didn’t get a training log, email jrskiing to request one and let us know what email account you’d like it shared with. This is a task for you, not for your parents.

  • Clothing reminder: try to always bring clothes—and shoes if possible—for indoors and out, as well as a full change of dry clothes for after practice.

  • Snack reminder: you need these too

U14s:

  • Woot here we go! First practice on Weds, 5/14.

BIATHLETES:

  • Practices for U15 will start this week, on Weds 5/14.

ADULTS/MASTERS:

  • We’re looking forward to starting with you next week! Also, any of you who want to join the Juniors and U14s for the Elmore time trial are totally welcome to do so (more details on the training plan).

Here’s the TRAINING PLAN for the week, or check below:

Anna Schulz