Team Salomon/Crested Butte Primal Quest Preparation Blog
Posted on 03/12/09 9:04 AM| by Kraig
Hello PQ Community,
We are pleased to announce the team will be racing Primal Quest Badlands! PQ is our marquee race for the year, and we look forward to giving it our best shot. To that end, we’ll update this blog weekly with postings from the team about training, preparation, and other races we compete in along the way.
We began our journey into adventure racing about six years ago when most of the team raced as Team Crested Butte and Travis Macy was their rival on Team Salomon USA. Since then, we’ve been lucky enough to do well in a number of domestic and international races and finished fifth in our last PQ in Moab. Travis, who finished second at PQ Montana, joined the team this year.
So far in 2009, we’ve competed almost every week in ski mountaineering, nordic skiing, winter triathlon, winter multisport, and snowshoeing races. It’s been a little cold in Gunnison, Colorado for cycling outside, but the snow has been excellent for high-aerobic, high-altitude training on skis and snowshoes. We find that this low-impact cardiovascular work lays and excellent foundation for big hours mountain biking, running, and trekking later in the summer.
As spring and summer arrive, we’ll continue competing two-three times per month: mountain biking, orienteering, running, multisport and adventure races.
Training Tip of the Week:
Long, slow distance is crucial to any regimine, but high-end sessions and races are very important to increasing strength, stamina, and speed. In the winter, in addition to a race every two weeks, I (Travis) generally shoot for one session of uphill running fartleks per week, four-five by three minutes on with one and a half minutes off.
Check back next week for a look into the weekly training of Jari Kirkland.
Happy Training!
Jari
Jon
Sully
Travis
Team Salomon/Crested Butte
www.teamcrestedbutte.com
