Sunday, June 30, 2019

Lucy’s training

Earlier this week, Lucy's biathlon training group, as well as the best older juniors in New England (REG ... regional elite group as identified by the US team) had an uphill time trial. The results are below.

The course was devised about a decade ago by Tim Burke, the retired World Championship, silver medalist biathlete. The course uses service dirt roads on Whiteface, and is 2.5k long with an elevation gain of about 1500'. Lucy had the fifth fastest time, and was tops in her training group, which included a 2018 Olympian.

Thursday's morning workout included an easy 30 minute jog followed by 90 minutes in the weight room. The afternoon workout was a hard classic double pole interval workout and shooting at the jumps ... pictures below.