Western REG

Hi everyone. I just got back from Western REG a couple weeks ago and thought I should try to give a report on how everything went. Overall it was a great camp in beautiful Park City. The camp was from June 20 to 26 with skiers from all the western regions: PNSA, Far West, Rocky Mountain, Intermountain, and High Plains. It was a great experience and a lot of fun spending 6 days training with many of the top skiers in the west. We got to roller ski with Billy Demong, Simi Hamilton, Rolf Figi, and Miles Havlic, plus play Kickball and Whiffleball with the rookies inluding Tad Elliott, Noah Hoffman, Jessie Diggins, Ida Sargent, and Saddie Bjornsen. On top of working out and having fun with all these great athletes we had great coaches to learn from. with an athlete to coach ration of about 3 to 1, every skier got lots of personal attention and technique advice. This included some one-on-one technique work with Matt Whitcomb and some pointers from Pete Vordenberg and Brian Fish. At camp we did some OD classic rollerski and running workouts and we did some higher intensity work. We had a spenst workout and three competitions for NEG. The NEG competitions consisted of agony hill climb, a roller ski sprint/agility course (I am in the red shorts at the beginning), and the Canadian Metals strength test. Each of these were scored separately with World Cup scoring system (100 points for 1st, 80 for 2nd, 60 for 3rd, and so on) and the 6 highest scoring girls and guys from all 4 REG camps then get to go to NEG. While I was bummed I did not qualify for NEG I still had a great time and learned a lot. Hope everyone's summer is going well!

Akeo