Norway Training Camp
Last week I had the amazing opportunity of being invited to Norway to attend a training camp with the Aker Daehli ski team. Which consisted of people from all over the world (even met a Canadian out there).
Travel is always rough, but airplane food helps out with that (I don't get why people complain, it's so fun!). We flew from Toronto Saturday and arrived in Oslo Sunday, reuniting my dad with his cousin who was kind enough to pick us up. We did a small tour around the town surrounding Oslo and I enjoyed the scenery with a nice wake-up run. Monday morning we were picked up from our Airbnb by Knut one of the team's main guys (idk what his specific position is, he's just important). We drove to Trysil, which is where this camp was being hosted. We were one of the first there which was good news for me because I got first pick of rooms in the massive apartment I was staying in. The Next Gen team I was housed with started showing up shortly after, and I met the 3 girls I would be staying with (they were all super nice and everyone got their own room yay!).
The first practice of the camp was a classic rollerski with technique. On the first downhill, I managed to absolutely eat sh*t and embarrass myself in front of everybody earning myself a lovely hole in my knee and a good conversation starter. Apparently, you shouldn't ski in a pack on narrow rollerski tracks when your skis are faster than almost everyone 🤷♀️. Day 2 was tougher with a good intense workout consisting of 2 prologue type sprints and 4min intervals after. Each day of the camp usually had a harder morning session and then the afternoon session was more technique focused. We had some long double poles, an absolutely killer hill workout and a nice long run on my last day.
I was the youngest at the camp by at least 2 years, so I was granted some leeway in various workouts, but not too much. The training was challenging, but everyone there was really invested in the sport and was happy to be improving themselves. The atmosphere was very motivating and I didn't ever feel left out. Everyone ate meals together at the hotel (delicious btw) and talked, it was astounding to be surrounded by some of the best skiers in the world who were training just like the rest of us. I actually got an opportunity to run with Andrew Musgrave and have a 1:1 talk with him (he's a very funny guy).
I'm super grateful for this opportunity and I hope that I will be invited back again sometime to train with these people. I definitely couldn't have done this without my parents and everyone else who's supported me up until now. I'm so thankful to you all!
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