The 2007 Michigan Cup ski series is in the books. I made it to one race, the season ending relay races at XC Ski HQ in Roscommon. It was a great day with a great job done by Bob Frye and his staff to put on another great season ending party/race. Team NordicSkiRacer.com narrowly missed the overall victory in the CUP by a mere 900 or so points. We just didn't have the numbers. We won the individual men and women's titles as well as 6 of the 12 relay categories.
My own individual relay leg was very fun and will spark some motivation for the upcoming 2008 Mich Cup Season. After having pneumonia in late December and not doing much all winter I was slightly nervous about racing again. I skied only 5 times before the relays but I felt very motivated for some reason? I knew since I was lacking so much fitness I could not push myself too hard. I had to stay in my aerobic zone and keep it steady or I would never recover. My race went very well considering having zero fitness. My time put me something like 50th out of the 100 skate legs, or 21st of the 50 second relay legs. Not very impressive for me, but very impressive since I have not trained much since November. It also gave me some confidence in that I could still push it and being so sick hopefully won't hurt me too much in the long run. Check out the DATA , click the speed link to the left! 27mph in a xc ski race?!
So...I just need to focus and stick with the plan for 2008 and the goals will come easy. The training is the easy part...the hard part is actually getting out to train :)
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