Summer Camp #2

What a weekend! Team Hardwood summer program take-2 was a tremendous success. Over 20 athletes out training hard, learning, and having a blast. Awesome group to work with.

First rollerski session (photo by Natalie Pekos)

                 
The camp started Saturday morning with tent setup and a rollerski technique session and some rollerski agility. Huge improvements were made across the board. After about an hour and a half on the road, lunch was consumed, a volleyball tournament took place, then everyone rested for the afternoon, then we were off to the next session.

Out of bounds

Reid with the power serve

The next session was "Kings Court" rollerski intensity. A relatively technical 600-700m course was set up around a school tarmac, and after a lengthy… rather challenging super top-secret warmup was completed, the races began (unfortunately I do not have any pictures from this session, since I was participating. If I stumble across any I'll add them in). For the qualifier, everyone did 2 laps as fast as possible, and then were organized into heats based off of qualifying time. In heats of three, everyone raced a hard one lap with minimal gnarly crashes (just one, S/O to Kristen). The winner of each heat moved up to the faster heat, the 3rd person moving down. The final consisted of the same format, but was 2 laps.
Overall, a deceivingly difficult workout.

After the workout, we made a stop by the beach, and then headed back to the farmhouse for dinner.
After dinner, the real training began. It was time for Go-Carting.

Even Coach Kieran couldn't hold back his excitement 

3, 2, 1 - GO!

Off to the races

After about an hour of epic Go-carting/bumper cars, it was time to call it a day.

Sunday started with a morning run and then a distance rollerski/technique session/agility work.
And from there it was time for lunch and pack-up.

"Everyone,  look excited!" … maybe it's the lighting… 

Had an awesome time running this camp, great group! If you missed out this time, don't worry, there are more camps to come. Including the MEGA camp later this summer.

Thanks again to all the athletes for making this camp such a great success! Love the effort and enthusiasm, keep it up!

Well, that's all for this one, until next time,

Coach Rj out