October 11, 2010 - Park City!

Kikkan, Sarah Daitch and Dasha rollerskiing up in Deer Valley. The first week of this camp we drove a lot to train between 1500-2000 meteres, week two has been between 2000-2400 meters and in our final week we are heading up towards the 3 grand mark. Sweet!

The Chateaux has definitely been good to us. Sarah, Dasha and I pose with the statue after a long run.

Me, Peri, Beckie Scott, Kikkan, Sarah. It was cool to see Beckie visiting for a few days with the kiddos. Beckie even joined us for a ski walk on the mountain.

Dasha gets a cuddle in with super cute Brynn Wadsworth at our workout at Soldier Hollow. Cool to train on the hallowed ground where Beckie made history for our country and sport. Great rollerski trails, lots of biathletes training, and the timing building is now a school.

Strength training with the babe squad. Here at altitude we all went to a 'maintenance' plan after the second week. The key to strength for the NST is doing the big movements - cleans for warm up, squats, bench and chins. I'm stoked to be taking a breather from squats in the latter half of this training season as I have plenty of lower body power to propel my nordic skiing.

Justin keeping the fun alive and being sun safe at the same time.

Trail running at Jeremy Ranch. Dasha, me, Sarah, Liz Stephen, Katie Ronsee and Matt Whitcomb. Maximum North American cooperation made the camp way fun. With Katie, Kikkan and Morgan Smyth coming from Alaska and Liz and Matt coming out for our workouts we are all really happy with our inter-continental teamwork.

Louise Bouchard and the women's team on a run. The Quebec training center (Centre National Pierre Harvey) were an amazing addition here and I really love working with a great, dedicated, positive and fun coach like Louis and his team.

Thanks to Justin for rigging up this kickass camp, to Wolfman and Scotty Y for the mad amounts of massage, and for all the CCC staff making this incredible quality of training possible for us.

I'll be home until November 7th and then it's off to Scandinavia.

Snow must be coming soon!

See you on the trails,

Chandra