The team is getting excited for the season, and everybody is bringing that excitement to practice which has made for some sweet workouts and a lot fun being had.
It was a pretty tough week for me with three papers and a midterm so it was sweet to be able to count on a daily team dinner to laugh and have a good time. Here's Jack, Luke and Braden enjoying Driscoll's bountiful plenty.
Big intensity for the team this past week. On Tuesday the team did some L4 bounding intervals up Petersburg road. Then, this weekend we had race weekend simulation with a skate sprint Saturday morning and a classic 15k race for the men Sunday.
After a series of head to head competitions, prologue winner Jack found himself in the A Final against Eli, who was hungry for the win. At the end of the day, Eli's lightning fast tempo brought him across the finish line ahead of Jack, and I was on scene after the final to get the winner's thoughts.
Also managed to catch a few words from second on the day, Jack.
Here's the team getting ready to cool down after the Sprints.
Jack helping Evan recover for the the 15k at lunch after the sprints
The 15k interval start provided its own drama as Jordan's powerful striding up the final climb gave him the win over Eli who finished 5 seconds back. Alas, no victory interview from Jordan as he and Perry were last seen Sunday doing resistance band drills and shotgunning pizza by the slice.
But here are a couple shots Perry managed to get at the start line.
Me representing team camo-tights
Captain Josh with his game face on
Eli tossing the camera a wave before entering the zone
Overall, a solid weekend of time trials for all, and everyone is stoked to have five days off from school to celebrate thanksgiving and on Friday head to Craftsbury camp for the weekend. Craftsbury is bound to be a good time, and while there's no snow there now, we're all hopeful!
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