Day 2: training



 2013 Team Manitoba

Good morning North Battleford! Our day begins at eight o'clock this morning with a warm-up. First a light jog and a dynamic wam-up, followed by some dry firing (practice shooting without actually firing), then breakfast. After breakfast it was time to ship out of the motel and to the venue.

this dog was super friendly

When we arrived at the venue we were suprised to see that there weren't many people there! The first thing we checked out was the biathlon range it looked pretty nice!  

The range



Cam and I shooting

  While some of the older athletes sighted in we ( Cam, Lucas, Ben and I ) went out to ski our course with our coaches Chris,Jim and Rachel. The first course we skied was the blue trail. At the beginning  it seems pretty easy going it starts with a very gradual downhill and up into a false flat "pretty easy right?" then as you progress up the false flat there's another gradual downhill and then it hits you! Possibly one of the biggest hills i've ever climbed, a two part monster that's about 2-3 times the size and length of "the wall" at Grand Beach; but once your'e up there's a spectacular downhill that leads to the range.



Trail system



After we had all done our courses we headed inside for lunch. Now in the second picture you will notice that we are holding some sort of strange looking stick. No, it's not a spirit stick like in cheerleading! It's actually a sugar cane! I know right weird, Lucas layed eyes on it in the grocery store and had to have it and that's not even the zaniest part of it, Cam and chris went back to the grocery store today and bought another one ( for a picture that will be posted tomorrow night )

Lunch



Oh boy!

After luch it was right back outside for some combo training!

Lucas

Jeremy

Jessica



We also found out today that Jim and Chris will be racing tomorrow; hey all the power to them! The way back was quite the adventure as well. We ended up having to pull someone out of the ditch; from our own team! Nicole, Rachel and Cristal slid off the road and into the ditch, don't worry everybody's okay and so is the car. The big red beast pulled it out pretty quickly;but we couldn't miss the oppurtunity for a picture.

and of course the sugar cane had to be in the picture too


(There's a video but it's taking forever to load so I might try again tomorrow night). Once we got back from this interesting drive we had a bit of down time and then went to dinner. An amazing taco dinner provided by all the adults. We athletes really have to give credit to the adults, without all of our amazing coaches, parents, volunteers and all of their support we wouldn't be here!


Dinner time

Later on tonight we've got an athletes meeting and then it's off to bed. I will post all of tomorrow's race results. Today ended the way it started with a beautiful sun peaking through the prairie horizon.