Here's What's Up in June

Despite the amount of rain Thunder Bay has had in the past few weeks training has been a hoot. We've only actually had to train in the rain a few times and other than that the cats and dogs seem to come down in the evening. Rain means two things: flooding, and bugs. Thunder Bay had an unfortunate flooding happen in the East end and the city's been working to clean it up. It messed up the roads, people's homes and their possessions. Our house was lucky enough to dodge any water in the basement  but I've felt so bad for the people who are having to deal with this mess.  Our guys came up to a giant hole in the road on a ride one day:

Photo Credit: Chronicle Journal

We've been pulling out some nice long hours and I'm surprised sometimes at how well my body handles multiple long days and how well I've been able to recover so far. One of the most difficult things about big volume is not the actual doing of the work, but making sure my body is recovering from day to day and that I'm getting enough sleep. Thank goodness I work in the evenings so I can nap most days! I'm not so oblivious to the sweet life I've been leading haha, I'm like a 3 year old... Up in the morning, nap in the afternoon. 

 Classic watch shot haha. I've also been unintentionally getting bad tan lines under this massive wrist piece. I tend to wear a lot of bracelets on my left arm now.

We've been taking advantage of the Quitmet Canyon 3km uphill. A big workout calls for a big sandwich.

Here is a short clip of a double pole start skate sprint. I'm in the white on the inside and Alannah is in blue. If you haven't seen rollerskiing before this is what we use to train as specifically as possible without snow.  But we don't always hammer haha

We have a few more days in this training block and then come Tuesday we have a bunch of rest days to soak in all the training. After that we will take part in the LSSD Ontario divisional camp here in Thunder Bay.

All for now!
Erin