Monday Technique video

This is some very applicable rollerski technique by some very good athletes, specifically they womens USA ski team. I think we can concider them pretty good.
Look at the way they bring their legs under them and have that good forward position. They are also bringing their hands forward quite far and getting good power out of them.
Keep up the good work

Monday Technique Video

This has some classic and some Skate technique, Watch that power they get from their arms and the power out of their legs, they are bringing their hands out in front and their legs underneath them, and they have that nice forward position!

Keep up the good training!

Monday Technique video

Some good technique, keep on remembering that technique is how we use all that strength and endurance we train so hard to get.

Monday Technique Video

A good video on stance that is important for everyone. Getting forward is the most important thing. Remember, to win a race you have to get to the finish first and the only way to get there is to go forward.

Monday Technique Video!

Skate technique, what we are always trying to get better at. Please watch at least the first minute of this video to see the person ski nicely up the hill. Its important to watch good techique so that during your workouts during the week you have a mental image of what you are trying to do. This is how we get better

Downhill Confidence

One of the easiest places to gain time and quickest places to lose time is on the downhills,

Great Downsview Workout

Thanks for a great workout this week at Downsview, we had a lot of new people out and I am looking forward to the coming weeks with even more people :)

Dont forget to check the blog with the training and what we are doing this weekend because for some people things are a little different.

Ryan posted two awesome videos on his blog he wanted everyone to watch before training on wednesday, if you still havent seen them, they are worth a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1sXTmaqRHU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDf757QwXpk

Have a good few days of training and see you all out there this weekend!

Awesome trip

I had an awesome trip this past weekend and really enjoyed myself! I wanted to thank everyone who came because you were the ones who made it happen! I hope you all enjoyed yourselves, this will be the trip we think about this winter, those long portages and creepy leeches... Thanks everyone for coming. :)

A good read

Behind the Gold endurance is a mental game:
http://skitrax.com/79758/

Great Trip everyone, have an awesome week of training and keep going hard!

Our Season Goals next year

If we can do all these jumps after next season our training will have been a success.
Ski Hard, Train hard and have an awesome Weekend everyone

Always go like its a sprint to the finish

In all your training for the rest of the Summer, lets make a deal that we will go this hard. Not physically, but in effort and intensity. Give everything you have all the time

A 2008 Sprint finish with Thomas Alsgaard 

A skiing Commercial

A skiing advertisment to give you your daily dose of skiing.

Monday Technique Video

Take a view of this, just to get the image of some excellent technique in your head, (I think if they are on the world cup we can safely call them excellent)

Our Own Personal Role Model

Many of you may know Soren, and if you don't I am sure you will eventually see her around the club. She Bikes and Skis for Hardwood and this is a video of her, if she can do it, you can too. More Inspiration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt_vUps5WXY

Canada Day

Happy Canada Day everyone. With all the talk about the flag, I want to get everyone thinking about how it would feel to hold up the Canadian flag representing our country one day. Can you imagine that? There are people who get to live that. If you want to feel that, and you badly want to feel that, then you have to train hard to get it. So let this picture be an inspiration to train hard, to maybe someday represent your country.

And of course, so you remember how fun training can be:

Have a good week and we will see each other Sunday for a great time at Mt. St. Louis

AWESOME CAMP

Hey everyone, thanks for making the camp this weekend such an amazing time, I thought it was a blast with the rollerskiing, go carting, beaches and great team work in preparing the food.

As usual I have no photos of my own but these are two from twitter and I may be able to find some more... It was such an awesome weekend and beautiful weather. I hope you are all properly tired and flattened. On that note though, dont forget to keep up with your training even though it may be the end of school. 

Just a nice swamp photo... we always need one of those. 

TRAINING CAMP TWO

Hello everyone! As you know this weekend we are having our second training camp! this is super exciting. We will be meeting at The farmhouse at 9 am and from there we will be having a good time training and being a team. Make sure to bring your breakfast foods, and whatever you are signed up to bring for the potluck.

I had an awesome group out on Wednesday and I wanted to say thankyou, we had six people, which is the most yet by double! And I really enjoyed having such a large group. I'll make sure to bring spare roller skis next week so that everyone should feel free to come!

If you have Exams good luck, if you are nearing the end of school, hang in there and enjoy the last few days! Im sure that you will be working very hard (or maybe not), see you on Saturday morning.

Wednesday and Sunday

Hello there!
So on Wednesday there are some changes! Listen close
At Hardwood we will be meeting at 3:30 and doing parking until 6, Then at 6pm there will be a Wicked Wednesday Session until 8:00, We will need lots of help for the parking and we love having lots of people out for wicked wednesday so do your best to come!

At Downsview it will be the same as usual, meeting at 7:00pm and going until around 9:00pm
Please please make an effort to come to downsview if you are not able to go to hardwood and help with parking! I love when we have two or three people out but it wiould be amazing to see even more and it is good quality training so worth the drive. This week I am bringing the roller board, Medicine ball, TRX, exercise ball, and we will be doing a mix of strength bounding and rollerskiing! Come prepared!!
See you out there and have a great time wherever you end up!

And for Sunday we are combining our parking duties with our usual training, everyone will have to take a turn doing both. The names are by no means defenitive of who can come out and everyone is welcome to come and help even if your name isn't on the list! The time that your name is on the list below is when you are training and where your name is on the parking document is when you are parking:
Training: Sunday 7 - 9am - Finn, Alec, Declan, Zoe, Jason, - Training with Ryan
Sunday 10am - 12pm - Bella S, Julia, Leyla, Elise, Claudia, Kathryn - Training with Bella 
Sunday 1 - 3pm - Connor, Robby, Molly - Training with Madi

Parking Document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N_bCswJlaci375o8Al6lvb2F9OnDXciVZtwtpB9bvMM/edit

See you there! Have fun and Enjoy your week of training!

Wednesday Workout options!

Hello! Hope to see more people out at downsview with me this week! We really love seeing eveyone come out. It was an awesome turnout on the weekend and it would be great to continue this trend!

This week we have:
Wednesday:
at 5pm- Kieran and Madi are running a wicked Wednesday at Hardwood,
At 5 pm Ryan is running a Rollerski session focusing on technique also at Hardwood!

At 7pm Ill be running a Downsview Session and bringing a Chuck Norris Machine, Amedecine ball and other exciting things. See you there!

As before you can go to one, two or all three, assuming of course that you can be in a few places at once and have a teleporter.
Have a good night at training wherever you are :)

The Super Awesome Sunday Hike!!

Thanks for coming out to the Sunday hike everyone! It was nice to have such a big group of us and I hop you enjoyed our adventure even if we did go astray! Hope this nice image brings to you back to the fun :)

We travelled 10.21 Km on our adventure! Hope you had fun, we are going to plan some more of these.. maybe with a bit more preperation and warning. See you on Wednsday if you are coming to downsview!

Also. As a note, we may have encountered poison sumac or other plant, so if you have developed any sort of blisters this could be the cause. Treat it accordingly, it should have already appeared so if you dont have any you should be in the clear

See you all sometime this week!

Wednesday Practice Options

Hey Everyone,
So this week there will be a lot of options, you can do which ever suits you and your family, you could even do all of them if you had a time machine and could be in three places at once.

No matter where you go! BRING ALL YOUR EQUIPEMT i.e. your skate rollergear, classic rollergear, running gear etc. Its alot nicer to have what you need than be looking for what you didnt bring. So:

Wednesday:
1. I (Bella) Will be running a session at downsview at 7pm-9pm on Wednesday, We will be doing upper body focus  including rollerskiing. Another great Wicked Wednesday
2. At Hardwood Coach Ron will be running a Wicked Wednesday and going hard. This will be at 5pm.
3. The Rotary Fun Run. Keiran will be here at the barrie waterfront for all who want to run the race. 5km or 10km depending on your division!  http://raceroster.com/events/2015/3972/barrie-rotary-fun-run-2015

If you are at downsview I'll see you there! Have a good week of training everyone and I promise to someday have pictures! Sunday was an awesome hike and a beautiful day. Its training sessions like those that make a person love to ski and be outdoors eh?
Have fun!

Hey there!

Hi everyone,
   Hope you are having a wonderful week training and if you have track and field meets good luck with those.
   First off, Thanks very much to Declan and Silas who came out to the Downsview session with me on Wednesday, I hope you enjoyed the Wicked Wednesday :) I'll be there every Wednesday at 7:00 so if you want to come out and train, come on over!
   Next, This Sunday we will be doing a hike: The information for this was on the Teamhardwoodsummer2015 blog but here it is again:
"Sunday we have a hike / run planned at the Bruce trail.  We are going to meet at Georgian College parking lot at 9am and drive as a group (carpool) over to Devils Glenn for a 15K hike/ run. (Hike details below) if you need a ride please let Tammi know at teamhardwood@gmail.com."
Look forward to seeing you all there! Let me know if you have any questions, concerns, or if you can or cant come. 

Wed 20th of May

On Wednesday the 20th of May, the practice will not be done in small groups as last Wednesday was but rather in regions. If you live closer to Hardwood hills you will attend a practice there from 5-7pm by Madi and Ryan. If you live Closer to Downsview you will attend a practice there by Kieran and I from 7-9pm (so as to avoid as much of rush hour as we can), we will be rollerskiing at Downsview so bring what you have and if you have both sets of rollerskiing equipment (skate and classic) bring both.
Both practices will be awesome and fun and enthusiastic so bring some cheer and enthusiasm and come out to whichever you choose!
See ya out there :)
-Bella

Inspiration!

And here is another lovely video to remind you of all the fun we had on the weekend doing our Crazy hot running tests on Friday. Followed by the strength and erg tests on Saturday morning and a rollerski test or workout Saturday night and a hard hill test at Mt. St. Louis on Sunday.
Look forward to more exciting training and for now here is one of the few training videos I managed to catch, of us doing some nice team burpies! :)

Ski Erg Videos

So as I am sure you all remember on the weekend we did a testing camp together! (I sure hope you remember since it ought to have been hard work. At the camp we took video of your ski erg tchnique so we could see things that needed to be worked on and things that were going really well for you. 

I have put these videos here so you can see. Just since it might be nice to have them to see for yourself what we are talking about :) Have a good one guys!

Sunday Ganaraska Hike

Originally this Sunday May 17th was supposed to be a team hike on the Ganaraska trail. Since it is Victoria Day long weekend and we heard from a lot of people that they wouldn't be able to come because of this we have decided to CANCEL this practice. So there will be NO all camp hike on that day.

That being said however, if you are around and would like to do a short technique workout as a group or small group let me know if you will be around. Then we can look at numbers and maybe plan something for either Sunday evening or Sunday morning depending on what people would like to do.

This session would be good for everyone since more time doing technique is always good! Let me know if you want to arrange a mini team practice with just our group. Either by commenting or Emailing me.

See ya :)

Hey Everyone,

Thanks for coming out on Wednesday to those of you who made it out! We had fun making people wonder what we we doing in the Eastview parking lot! If anyone is interested in other practices at the Eastview parking lot on any other days and if its a good place for everyone to meet let me know and we can see what we can do. Its an awesome way to learn crucial skills without a really hard workout! Something that everyone, myself included, can use.

Im going to find a way to start taking pictures at these practices and camps since I am not quite up to snuff on the whole photos thing!

If you have any feedback on Wed or anything else let me know since this is how we design our plans of what we do!

SECRET TRAINING SESSION

This coming Wednseday, May 13th, we will be meeting at Eastview Secondary School in Barrie again. This is the place we met (today) for the start of the first weekend camp.  We will be meeting at 7:00 opposed to 5:00 as normal. So:

7:00 May 13th we will be meeting at Eastview S.S. 

It will run for about 1.5- 2 hours.

 Let me know if you will be coming please! Either Email me at bellahowden@yahoo.ca or if you look on this page you are currently reading you will see that there is a poll asking if you are coming, you can also answer there :)

We will be using our rollerskis and playing games to get used to them involving chalk, jumpropes and basketballs! This is a chance for most of you to re-get used to your rollerskis, learn them and get comfortable since we will be using them the rest of the summer!

If you do not have rollerskiis, Boots, Rollerski poles or anything else such as a helmet, that we will need for this workout, let me know since there are many extras we will be able to find (if its boots you are lacking I will need your boot size as well.

I'll see you for the rest of this weekend at the camp! Have fun and I look forward to Wednesday!

Hey Everyone!

Hope you are looking forward to the season, because now that April is almost over I am getting very excited for the summer training! We will be meeting for the first time on May 6th at Hardwood hills at 5:00pm flat. If you have any questions or want to talk about anything just send me an email or give me a call, my email is bellahowden@yahoo.ca and my number is 705-720-2470.

This will be the first post of many, and make sure you give this blog a look before coming to training each practice because if anything changes this is where I will let you know. In the meantime keep up your good work with your training and I look forward to seeing you all soon!