Sprint Warmup

Tuesday June 15th, P7 and P12: Before interval workouts oftentimes we warm up with short sprints which helps to get the brain and the body on the same page. Over the past two weeks I snapped a few shots of both training groups doing their warm up bounding sprints.  Here a couple of sprint and interval photos from these workouts. First up the T2C group...

The pole dump for the zone 1 jog.

  The boys sizing up the sprint hill.

...and they're off!

Aidan Lennie: Fast bounder, Netherlands fan.

Intervals: Even though the speed is lower, they're still pretty fast.

Some people have very different reactions to being finished intervals. No and Alan are about to fall over, Alison is posing for the camera.

Aidan is really excited to be done intervals.

Now let's see how the younger guys do it...

Coach Peter sez "Go!"

Coach Kieran demonstrating bounding, Charlotte demonstrating having legs as long as your poles.

Running is faster than skibounding and if you do head to head skibounding sprints running tends to become the technique of choice for many skiers. Leaving a little gap between skiers keeps the running at bay. Here Maddie, Bryana and Charlotte leave some space.

Pat and Ian hammering their last sprint.

Charlotte and ponytail looking forward to intervals.

Pat and Jordan: 3x7min zone3 bounding intervals.

Coach Peter is a real trooper; he did the entire interval set with a broken neck.

Between intervals coaches hide in the trees to get photos. At one point during this workout Coach Kieran was shirtless crouching behind a rock while taking photos....

...but we forgive his eccentricities because we get cool photos like this.