Frozen Thunder Has Descended on Canmore!
It’s been a fantastic start to the biathlon “on-snow” season. We’ve had great conditions since arriving in Canmore on Monday. I’m especially glad that my wife ,Erika, and daughter, Ophelia, are able to join me for the camp this year. Ophelia is very excited about the upcoming biathlon season!
Peak Foliage Intervals
Intervals on the backside of Whiteface Mt this morning with Tim Burke and the rest of the National Team crew! Here’s a snazzy pic taken by coach Erik Lewisch! 
Bridger Biathlon and Summer Nationals
Here’s a pic of my daughter Ophelia, celebrating with me after a successful weekend in Jericho, VT at North American Rollerski Biathlon Championships. The weather was hot and humid throughout the two days of competition, but the races went off without a hitch and it was great to see so many competitors… over 100 entrants both days!
Erika, Ophelia, and I just got back from a whirlwind trip to Bozeman, MT. I have been working as a new board member with the Bridger Biathlon Club, helping them to grow the sport of biathlon in Bozeman. The club has grown from 7 members in 2014, to more than 50 today! Great to see so many motivated happy kids loving this great sport!
Cheers!
LB
Avalanche Lake and beyond…
One of my favorite workouts is a mountain run that winds up to Avalanche Lake, in the heart of the High Peaks Wilderness. I just ran up there this morning for a 2.5 hr run with ski poles. It dawned on me that I had opened the new training year with the same workout just over a month ago… You can see the difference in climate in the two pics below. 
In between those two workouts, I spent almost two weeks in Bend, Oregon getting a bunch of on-snow hours in. We skied 3 hours every morning at the Mt. Bachelor Nordic Center, and then descended to Bend for two hours of afternoon training, either running or on mt. bikes. It is always a great way to start the year; easy to get plenty of training in and this year was one of the best for skiing that I’ve witnessed over multitude of trips to Bend. We even had a few days with fresh powder conditions… Much of last winter’s race course conditions didn’t compare to the spring skiing in Bend!
70 degrees and great running just outside of Bend.
Early morning snow squall at Mt. Bachelor Nordic Center!
Afternoon MTB training with Sean Doherty and Tim Burke.
The start of a new season.
After an exciting World Champs, and successfully conclusion to the 2015/16 World Cup Tour, the new training season is already upon us. Here’s a few shots of the Adirondacks in the first few weeks of the training year. It’s been a rollercoaster start, complete with sun, snow, and everything in between!
Headed to Oslo
At the moment, I’m on the short two-hour train to Oslo. World Champs is very much “just around the corner”!
Cheers,
Lowell
Goodbye Canmore, Hello Presque Isle!
After a blissful two weeks in Canmore, we hopped on a charter flight to Presque Isle on Monday morning. I thoroughly enjoyed the competitions in Canmore and was stunned at the amount of passion and dedication shown by the volunteers and the spectators. In addition to the strong showing from local Canadians, it seemed like almost every nation was represented; from Norway to Russia, U.S. to Germany, people made the global trip Canmore for the World Cup… truly amazing stuff!
As for the team; we had a successful week, with Tim Burke placing 7th in the Pursuit and an all-time best team finish of 4th in the Mixed Relay event on Sunday. This was an exciting race, which left us 1.8 seconds from bronze when I crossed the finish line. Although it is a little bit heartbreaking to get that close to a medal, we know that we are right there with the other top nations, and we know that we can do it!
Here’s to another successful week in Presque Isle! -LB
A few more pics from Canmore…
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