Emilie's PG Fantaski. (Pun intended, as usual.): Pre-season camp parts 2 and 3 and more!

2 Sundays ago at the Foret, it started raining and didn’t really stop. The outer trails were pretty much wiped out but we stayed until Wednesday and got some really good work in on the 1k manmade loop. While it was a little bit frustrating, we all knew that returning to Burke to do dryland in an area that we are all familiar with would provide the most productive training.

Campus was pretty quiet as it was only the J3s (14 and 15 year old ‘pineys) and us and since we were still on camp time, we didn’t have any classes, just dryland and recovery. Due to the low snow situation that is facing the entire Northeast, the Burke schedule was altered to allow all of us to go find it! The older alpiners, or FIS athletes stayed in BC for an extra 6 days while the J3s flew back out to Colorado for a 5 day training camp. We were poised to go back to Canada, but Pete called the people up there and they said that it wasn’t quite worth the trip, so Pete sent us home for a few days. It was a bummer to not be going anywhere to ski, but it was nice to be with my family for a while, and go for runs on my home turf. I also enjoyed training with my old high school team and was happy to see that they were keeping it fun as always.

When we returned to campus on Saturday, it had snowed and we drove over to Craftsbury for a ski! It was great, but what was even better was that our campus loops were open and wonderful. We skied out the door yesterday and had a great technique session before skiing to brunch. Right before dinner, most of the FIS kids arrived, including my 2 roommates! I am so happy to have them back, and it is great to have campus full and busy again.

Here are some pictures from the last couple of weeks.

T-Minus 5 days until the first race of the season!

Emilie

Rainbow on the way home from Canada!

Drylandia

We spent a great evening drinking hot cider, and roasting marshmallows at the cabin of former BMA nordic coach and current USST coach Matt Whitcomb- Thanks Matt!