October Break by Parker Tyler

October was one sick month. The Utah Ski team put in some solid training with a couple intensity weeks, a volume week, and fall break. The team split up this year for fall break. Some of us left to refresh our minds and have some fun other than ski training, while others stayed in SLC and had a mini-training camp. Some of the girls went on a trip up to Monarch, Montana. A small town in the middle of nowhere. We got some time skiing on snow, ate a lot of good food, and spent a lot of time chilling out doing little as possible trying to recover from a heavy fall training load and school.

When you go from having no free time to having all the time in the world your imagination and creativity can kinda go crazy, so the girls and I spent our time in Montana thinking of the most outrageous stuff we could think of, consisting of getting pulled by a huge truck across snowy roads on our skis going 30 miles per hour, pretending the be cowboys, teaching Scandinavians how to play American football, shooting guns, playing pool at the bar with the smoke jumpers, lassoing each other, trying to imitate the lift from dirty dancing, building jumps, jumping on and rolling hay marshmallows, just usual Montana stuff.

After fall break the team came together to bust out another solid cycle of training before our fall camp in West Yellowstone. Unfortunately after one week of training I got the swine flu. Typical since I manage to get really sick every fall at least once. But now that is mostly over with and I am feeling a ton better and getting really antsy to put on my roller skis again to get as strong as I can before season starts. But for now I have to rest, which is all good. All in all it seems that the team is looking really fit after the Steinbock Invitational that was held last weekend. I think we are all really fired up this year to grab number 12 and so far we are on the right track.

Peace Out~