Fall break is coming up and we have another busy week in school with various exams and papers coming up! We have been training hard the last couple weeks with high intensity lifting as well as jumps and sprints in the stadium. So everybody is looking forward to fall break to refuel the batteries for the second part of the preparation. This Saturday we had a mountain time trail together with the nordic team – they were on roller skis and we climbed up the “steepest road in Utah” with our bikes. This was a nice opportunity for a mutual training despite the different needs of the two teams regarding the preparation for the season.
This Saturday we were also able to “break in” our new ski room/shed. We invited our alumni and challenged them in a soccer game – or I should probably say we tried to – because who would have thought that the alumni selection actually won the soccer game! The big effort and even playing with twelve people on the field was not enough to crack the experienced defense of the alumni. Former Ute coach Pat Miller, who coached the alumni soccer team, formulated his strategy pretty simple: “just scoring one goal more than the active team”. And since he was successful, we should probably have this as our strategy for nationals next spring; if we score one point more than all the other teams, it will be all we need…
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