The 2013 Australian Winter

Paul Kovacs. Elite Cross-Country Skier

The Australian winter has been fairly short and sweet this year. So on that note I’ll try and keep my blog that way! No promises though!

Back before there was even any white stuff on the ground, we were off in Canberra at the AIS for our pre snow testing camp. I won’t bore you with the lab rat details, but I came away from the week feeling both excited and just a little bit tired! Excited because I’d finally got to the next level of the VO2max test and my body was responding and improving well. And oh so tired, because The Boss (World Cup Coach August Teague) had flown in for the winter from the US and straight away put all of us in our place, in the pain cave.

Looking back at the winter, basically the day the Boss got here the training really just stepped up…

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