Hey! Starting a first little update about where I’m at in the winter. Post-U.S. Nationals, pre-European travel, I’m getting a great opportunity to get a solid training block while starting school for the spring semester. The last few weeks have been chill, in the sense that I don’t have too much going on besides training, and it’s also been seasonably cold here, which is nice to see after a few years without a real cold spell. It’s been nice, but I’m glad i’m focusing on volume right now, as higher-intensity workouts in the cold can be tough, with sweating and heavy breathing putting extra stress on your body. Also it feels good to put in some volume again after a longer period of sharpening…a 3 hour ski can really hurt as bad as L4 intervals, just in a different way!

Looking forward, I will start to add intensity and race more after next week, getting my body used to going hard again, in preparation for World Juniors in early March. My plan right now is to leave around February 10th for Minneapolis, and race the Supertours there, and stay a couple days after, then head over to Germany, ready as I can be to execute my best possible races. It’s about to get exciting!

P.S. I’m not a big writing lover so I’ll keep these short. Or long if I feel like it but writing is very much a chore for me, but it is fun to share a little more than just social media. Stay tuned!