Just when I thought I had my professional career tweaked to allow me to
focus on skiing and training everything changed. I’m now responsible for
business in Asia which means I may easily join the “one a month club” in my
travels to Asia. The good news for skiers is that so far every time I’m in Asia
it snows back home. It snowed in November when I was in Japan and last week
Wednesday as I was leaving it definitely was snowing. According to Karen (who’s
on her own shoveling) it’s snowed at least one more time…
So back to training in Japan, It seems odd to be doing so much non- ski
specific training at this point in December. Given that if anything I was too
ski specific through the whole dryland training season. For the past week I've
been running, swimming and riding a stationary bike. I feel more like a
tri-athlete than a member of the Vakava ski team. I've found it’s best to run
before the majority of Japan wakes up, which means getting up before 5AM (which
might sound early but it’s 2PM back home), otherwise there are too many cars,
bikes and pedestrians to negotiate around.
I've been lucky this week since the hotel I'm in has a lap pool, good
gym and great spa with cold and hot baths plus a sauna. It seems like I've been
working, working out, sleeping or spending time in the spa doing cold / hot
contrast baths and using the sauna. Yes, Ahvo, I will buy a sauna some day
(still working on permission).
Looking on the bright side, I likely have been flirting with over
training for most of the off season so if anything the last two trips to Japan
have given the body time to recover. If I can get past the jet lag I should be
ready to ski and train when I get home this weekend. Can’t wait to see everyone
on the trails and at Wed night workouts.
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