Lucy’s biathlon workout

Most often, an interval workout like this (repetitions of four minutes fast, and two minutes active recovery) would be done as “combos,” rollerskiing in combination with shooting. However, yesterday her four person training group did a slow fire, accuracy test, called a 30-30. The athlete shoots thirty prone targets and thirty standing targets, with rests and breaks. A traditional paper target with scoring centered around a ten-point bullseye is used.

A benchmark for an international, World Cup level biathlete, is at least a total score of 500. Yesterday Maddie - a 2018 Olympian and one of the team's best shooters - scored a 503. Lucy and the other lesser experienced college girls were in the 300s. An encouraging point for Lucy though, was a prone score of 240 which is close to that international benchmark ... now she just needs to get that standing straightened out!

She is prepping for the Summer nationals on August 17 and 18 in Jericho, Vermont.