From the FasterSkier archive — posts syndicated from athletes’ and coaches’ own blogs between 2004 and 2012, kept online as published. Current coverage is at fasterskier.com.

Utah

I’m out in Utah right now at our last dry-land training camp of the year.  Training has been going really well but I have also been super busy.  Olympic years are always a little different in that we have a lot more responsibilities to the media and the Olympic Committee.  This is actually just a big a excuse for why I have not been updating more frequently…

While most other Nordic training sites have been reporting snow over the last few weeks, we have been getting sun and 70-degree weather. This is exactly why we are here in October.  Besides the sun, the venue here is also a great place for us to make our final preparation for the winter.  The high altitude combined with the tough tracks definitely makes for some intense workouts.

In other exciting news, I have also ordered a new camera!  Hopefully I can hang onto this one for more than a year… I hope to have some Utah training pics up soon!  Thanks for checking in.