Training week of 11/17
EVERYONE:
The training plan is here and below. Please fill out the attendance form weekly!
Snow updates: this time of year, it’s always hard to guess what the weather will bring. Stay informed about snow conditions here by heading to our website and clicking “Conditions & more” and/or snowflake in the upper right.
Rental equipment: we’d like to wrap up season-long rental distribution sooner rather than later. PLEASE hop on rentals if you' haven’t yet done so.
JUNIORS:
BRING YOUR ROLLERSKI RENTAL GEAR BACK now please. All of you. The loop is closed because there’s a foot of snow on it at Coaches’ Corner.
Catching up on billing, emails, etc.: we may owe you a response about one thing or another. We haven’t forgotten about you—it’s just a busy time of year! Give us a few days and then bug us again.
Training/practice skis: for those of you who have rented race skis through us, most of you (at the junior level—U14s need not worry about this) will also need some sort of training skis. When we go to Eastern Cups and we’re working on your skis, you need to be able to warm up on something. And when you’re crashing around your school field in the semi-dark before there’s much snow, you don’t want to trash your race skis. You can find training skis at ski swaps, you can rent them from us, and you can also likely buy them from us depending on your size (we have a bunch of used training skis with bindings for $75).
Always be ready for all the things: the weather is highly unpredictable this time of year. Always be ready for inside + outside, and be sure to have a full change of dry clothes in your bag.
Licensing: holy moly you better have what you need at this point. Read old blogs for more info.
Looking ahead at some dates:
Note the sneak peak at the Thanksgiving week training plan. Subject to change but that’s our best guessing/planning right now.
Thanksgiving Time Trial: we typically do a TT with the teams who are at the Center over Thanksgiving. Usually the Sunday after. Stay tuned.
In ONE MONTH (Dec 13-14) we’ve got the Season Openers at Rikert. These have historically been at the Center, but in light of a pile of early season biathlon races, we asked Rikert to take them on and they kindly agreed. More info here. Coaches will go down and wax skis for this, but we will not be doing team travel/overnight/food/etc. We may be able to offer a van—TBD.
Reminder: toggle to the “25-26 year” tab at the bottom of the training plan to get a better sense of what’s ahead this winter.
U14s:
BRING YOUR ROLLERSKI RENTAL GEAR BACK now please. You don’t need it anymore! Thanks!
Always be ready for all the things: the weather is highly unpredictable this time of year. Always be ready for inside + outside, and be sure to have a full change of dry clothes in your bag.
BKL:
Your kickoff meeting/info session is Tuesday, 11/18, @ 4pm, and is VIRTUAL this year. The meeting is on Microsoft Teams and you can join HERE. The meeting will be recorded (and notes sent out) for those families who can’t make it. There will be a brief presentation from the coaches followed by a Q & A.
BKL practices start on Tuesday, December 9th.
BIATHLETES:
Bring every practice: gloves, poles and a dry change of clothes & warm layers to put on after skiing.
Winter race opportunities- read over for what we know so far. There’s a novice-friendly race on Jan 10!
During the month of November only, we will structure JR/U14 training a little differently:
Sundays and Wednesdays are practices for the full group. Your mode will probably be whatever the mode was for ski practice.
Tuesdays we will reserve for 1-on-1 shooting sessions. Anyone who is a U17 or U19 planning to race at Junior Nationals can sign up for a 1-on-1 shooting session here.
December goes back to normal with the group split between Tuesday and Wednesday.
ADULTS/MASTERS:
Thanks for a great summer and fall! We’ll see you again on December 4th. Feel free to use Slack to self-organize workouts in the meantime.
Here’s the TRAINING PLAN for the week, or check below:
I’m not happy, YOU’RE HAPPY