Hey everyone
It has been far too long since I've made a blog post on here and I've been putting it off for literally over a month (or two). So much has happened since my last post. School is going really well, I have made some more friends, and skiing of course has been great!
The season has changed from fall to winter now. Days are getting shorter and shorter. Right now it is light around 8:30 in the morning and it gets dark at around 3:30 or 3:40 in the afternoon. Definitely something that has taken a bit of getting used to. Thankfully on Mondays, like today I finish school at 9:30 in the morning so I do get to be around and outside a bit when its sunny. We received our first snow around 3 weeks ago which was really cool! I took a picture when I woke up of it for documentation reasons which you'll see below.
Since my last post I have still been doing great training. The difference now is I'm skiing on snow! I went to an on snow camp last weekend in a place called Beitostølen. This was pretty good skiing. It was on man made snow, so not quite the same as real snow, but nonetheless skiing! We had some workouts just to break in the skiing legs, some sprint practice, a 10k classic time trial, and some i3 intervals to top it all off. I think in the Friday afternoon, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday morning I had about 8.5-9 hours of training which isn't too bad. One of the coolest parts of Beito was the whole Norwegian national ski team was there. I said hi to Petter Northug and we skied by eachother a few times. I skied a lap behind Marit Bjørgen. I hope one day I can be as manly as she is... (she has bigger legs than half the men's national team) and took a picture with the guy who wore aviator glasses in the Olympics and worldcups. It was pretty inspiring to train around some of the best in the world.
Last week was a pretty hard training week after back from Beitostølen. I had a rest day Tuesday, easy workout Wednesday, hard uphill running sprinting intervals Thursday, strength Friday, more uphill intervals Saturday, and yesterday, to top the week off, a 2.5 hour ski on snow! There is pretty good classic skiing just 20 minutes away by car or bus down in the valley. I suspect I'll end up there again this week sometime.
This weekend I have another 4 day ski camp on snow at a place called Nordseter. This camp with be with the whole team kollen, so I will be skiing with around 80 people my age. It will be a really hard camp but I'm really looking forward to this.
I have been taking a few pictures from the camp, some more of fall, and what it looks like outside my house right now. Check them out.
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| A nice shot from October |
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| Same day as the last one |
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| Welcome to Norway |
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| I was sitting on a stone wall taking this picture |
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| Our first snow of the year some 3 weeks ago |
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| Our Heming ski camp at Beitostølen. Many people missing in this photo. |
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| Another shot. |
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| This guy was the man. He races in those glasses in Worldcup. |
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| What our house looks like today. It snowed today and last night. |
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| Another view of the house from today. Ignore the time stamp it's wrong. |
