Erin Moening

This week has been so busy. Let me just break down the average day. Or the 2 average days… I guess. This week I started swimming with my school's swim team in their early morning practices. This for me includes waking up at 5:00am, getting all my stuff together, eating breakfast and biking the 2 miles uphill in the dark to my school. We workout for an hour, doing light core work, and some lap swimming.  What I feel like when I swim After I get ready for school, I sit 5 long periods before I get to my favorite class, strength and fitness! We work out for about 45 minutes and then I only have to survive one more class before Cross Country!! This week, because we had two races, our workouts have been fairly easy. Then I race home, rush through my homework and dinner, and then run up to my lifeguarding job. As soon as I get home I go to bed.  My other routine day involves light weight room workout 6th period and then right after school, a cross country meet.  We had 2 this we...

I found this funny because of two things. Its a snowman (I'm a skier) and it has abs (and I'm talking about strength here). Once school starts (tomorrow ;( no!!!!!!!!) my weekly strength workouts will go up from 3-4 to 5-10. During the first semester I am taking a strength and fitness class and I am joining the girl's swim team's pre-school workouts in the fall. Plus adding in some cross country core and some extra 1/2 hours in the weight room (from CC also) I can predict that I will be waking up (super early for swimming) with some sore muscles. Of course I'm not doing the same routine everytime. Here is a peek at what I do for general strength! General Strength This is just as the name says, General Strength. Here goes my normal pull-ups, push-ups, bench press, crunches. Some stuff I'm adding onto it is energy prevention for running and skiing focusing on my hips and hip flexors. Just some throwback photos from earlier this summer. Rollerboard- Ski sp...

For me, one of the most important things about Cross Country is balancing everything to not get injured. And thats the problem with being a biathlete. Right now I'm putting big hours on skis, increasing my hours in the weight room, and bringing more intensity, running and skiing. Gotta break it to you, I haven't been that happy with my running, too, which makes me even more determine to  do well in training. First CC race of the season One thing I'm exciting about (and dreading losing my endless summer hours!) is I got my class schedule, and I have a weight lifting class! Now I'll be able to spend a minimum of 5 days a week doing general strength, balance, power, and speed drills!!!  See! ;) Look at that strength! Besides training, eating, sleeping, and working my new job at the JCC as a lifeguard, I don't have much exciting news except for my family cabin weekend from a couple weeks ago, so I'll entertain you with some of those pictures.  The Girls c...

If you ever get the chance, go hiking in the Tetons. It was definitely one of the most memorable moments of the U16 camp, and I'm so glad I was chosen for the camp because even though it was only a week, I was filled to the brim with new knowledge and ideas. It was an amazing experience and I am very excited to push the boundaries even more now.  Saturday morning we took an early start to get out on the trail. It was a gorgeous morning with a great big blue sky and perfect comfortably warm weather. We all started off together but ended up breaking up into smaller groups.  My fellow hikers and I almost to the top We ended up hiking for 4 hours to complete 15 miles. We summated 3 mountains and climbed up to around 10,300 feet.    Climbing up the 2nd mountain One thing I'm very happy about is I got to have a snowball fight in August! And we made snow angels, although the snow glacier was pretty packed down.    Snowball fight!!! We ended up eating lunch on the ...

This morning we did a team time trial up a mountain pretty close to our school. It was so steep that in most spots it was faster to walk than run. The trail consisted of a bunch of switchbacks and the trail added up to be around 2 miles. It was so hard, and while I pushed myself as hard as I could I didn't do as well in the standings as I wish I could've.  This afternoon we did more skating agility  and some adventure skiing.  Then this evening a moose walking right down the school path with its baby! It was the 2nd time I had ever seen a moose, and this one was so close, about 20 feet away.  Tomorrow we are going on a 4 hour run and then some swimming!

Yesterday after some fun moosehoofing we did a fitness test. I really enjoyed both because skiing isn't all about what happens on race day and its very interesting to see what is behind the results and what is behind people's training.  Midwest girls at the top of the Moosehoof hill Yoga after the strength test  U16 girls  Today after a long skate ski we took the afternoon off and went whitewater rafting!! It was the first time I had ever gone and I really enjoyed it with my teammates! Before our long ski

Yesterday was a little overcast, a little windy, and a little chilly, but in all it made a fantastic am rollerski. That was defiantly my favorite workout so far, though our pm work outs had a close 2 and 3. We started in the national park and double poles our way up the slight incline to Jenny Lake. The views were fantastic as we were skiing along the Teton Mountain range (seriously it was only a 1/4 of a mile away!!)  When we got to Jenny Lake we hiked around part of it and stuck our ankles in the freezing water.  Midwest team at camp After lunch we did some super tough continuous strength for an hour. We were also suppose to do some team bonding, but it started pouring making the obstacles too slippery.  U16 girls Last night we did some really awesome yoga which stretched us out and loosened up all of our muscles.