I have received a complaint about this post potentially advocating drug use- to be very clear, I am not. Norwegians call a hard training session a “syrefest”, directly translating to “acid party”, which of course has connotations in english that are so far from the eat, train,sleep lifestyle of an elite endurance athlete that I…
Tag: olympics
End of season update (worst title yet?)
With the snow rapidly disappearing in Lillehammer it’s getting pretty difficult to pretend spring isn’t well underway, so it’s time for a new blog before it all seems too distant a memory! I wrote my last blog from Livigno, on a precamp for two prior to the World champs. The banter got pretty weird but…
U23’s and onto Sochi
After the excitement of Olympic selection and kitting out we settled down to some serious training in Misurina, a picturesque area in the Italian Dolomites. Reading about training isn’t so exciting so I’ll skip to World U23’s The less aged athletes on the team (myself and Andrew Young) moved, along with the juniors to Val…
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