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.

Lake Placid elev. 1,801ft, Canmore elev. 4,430 ft.

div class=”MsoNormal” style=”text-align: center;”div style=”text-align: left;”Friday visit to the 4th and 5th grade classes at the Lake Placid Elementary School:/div/divdiv class=”MsoNormal”br //divdiv class=”MsoNormal”Because I didn’t think that talking about altitude training would be interesting for a bunch of 8 to 11 year olds, I decided to respond to the request in a different way: elevation and who’s conquered it. To start things off I figured I’d speak of elevation most relative to them: the Adirondacks Mts. around us./divdiv class=”MsoNormal”br //divdiv class=”MsoNormal”div class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”