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For the nearly three weeks that I am home, before flying out to Utah for an altitude training camp, I have a number of extremely hard interval sessions to do. All of them require a sizeable hill. Unfortunately, the glaciers and their melt water were not kind to Minnesota.
Today, I did an uphill running intensity session at Afton Alps Ski Area. The ski area boasts the largest hill in the area, but that isn’t saying much. I was able to make the terrain work for me in the end, so it was still a success.
Each region of the country forces its athletes to adapt to something. In the Northeast, kids learn from an early age how to put klister on their skis because they often get more rain and ice than snow in a given year. In the Midwest, we have to train for a sport that often has courses scaling mountains in the real European Alps by running and skiing up hills that most grandparents would feel safe sledding down.
In a week, I am headed for the West, and I am sure there is something out there to which they have to adapt. Sun, no bugs, beautiful mountains, drought. It might be difficult to find anything to overcome.
Peace,
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