Day 6

The storm finally broke. For a while it seemed it would never end, but now all around people are coming outside to celebrate. The sun may no have shown itself today but I have confidence that it will be seen within a matter of days.
No, there was not a massive storm rendering most of North America uninhabitable and sending our government to Mexico, and as far as I know Dennis Quaid is not nordic skiing his way to New York City, atop shopping centers, in order to save his son. It has, however, rained in Voss for 5 days straight until today in which, despite not actually having a "sun sighting". Beginning on Saturday afternoon the citizens of Voss (myself included) have been subjected to a constant though never particularly aggressive rainfall. It left most of my training clothes wetter than the time I forgot to take my clothes off before getting in the shower (I cannot confirm or deny this has ever happened). It rained enough for me to revise the saying "rain makes champions" to "rain just makes everything wet." Not only does it make everything wet, but, it is an equal opportunity wetter. The rain doesn't care if it is cotton or lycra, from Patagucci or your local thrift store, etc.. It really just makes things wet.
The answer to your question (What does one do when it rains for 5 days straight?) is: Train outside in order to maximize exposure to the wetting properties of rain. On Wednesday this meant lvl 3 classic intervals. For those of you not initiated in the nordic cult lvl 3 is generally defined as your lactic threshold (the point where your body is producing lactic acid as fast as it is getting rid of it). What this means is our going hard but easily have another gear you can go to. The intervals were 6 by about 4 minutes up a gradual hill. The hill begins gradual, has a false flat, steepens for a bit, then is gradual again to the finish. For the guys our directions were to do the first 3 intervals all double pole and then do what we want to for the rest. It was a good set of intervals and in the end everyone was very WET.
Proof of blue sky

The nearby canyon

This will be a rare double post day as my blogging yesterday was interupted by a phone call from my parents, so stay tuned for an update on my VO2 max test in Bergen.