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West Yellowstone Camp Recap

December 4, 2020
by
Hannah Rudd

The past few weeks have been very busy and filled with great training, some beautiful distance skis, a few time trials, and a bit of uncertainty about the season ahead. Last Tuesday, our team headed out to West Yellowstone for a week-long camp.  We were so lucky to beable to ski on perfectly groomed trails and tracks every single day.

Leah, Lauren, and Hannah

I took this week as an opportunity to work on technique and to focus on transferring overall of the things I’ve been working on while rollerskiing to snow. Since we had such nice tracks, I tried to make some improvements in my classic technique. I was working on quickening my tempo during steep hills and transitions, getting full weight transfer, and having a relaxed, pendulum-like arm swing when striding. To help me make these improvements, and to get more comfortable onsnow, we did a decent amount of no-pole and one-pole striding.

Working on the striding and gliding
Perfect conditions

Along with logging a lot of K’s and working on technique, our team was able to do two time-trials against other teams in the west. On Wednesday we did a skate sprint simulation,and on Saturday we had a 10k skate. It was nice to put a bib back on again and made me excited for the season to come (whatever it might look like).

Leah, Hannah, Erika, and Lauren- Post Sprint TT

And the best part of the week for me…lots of sunset skis…

...And we can't forget about Andy's beautiful turkey

Check back next week for and update from Leah!

Thanks for Reading!!

-Hannah