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Sophie Caldwell’s Q&A – Dealing With Injury

by skitrax.com
Sophie Caldwell [P] Nordic Focus
Sophie Caldwell © Nordic Focus
November 05, 2014 – This past season Caldwell claimed the best all-time US Olympic women’s XC ski result with her 6th place in the CL sprint at Sochi 2014 and she finished third at the World Cup in Lahti, securing her first individual sprint FR podium. Despite two elbow fractures in a six-month period, Caldwell is training hard and focused on kicking more butt this season! Want to know how she’s working on recovering from her injury? Interested in her training details? In this exclusive “Sodie” feature, Caldwell answers your questions. Also check out Sophie’s training rap HERE and check her MAILBAG for all Q&As thru the season.

Questions for Sophie – Dealing With Injury

Hi Sophie,
Welcome back. I have a couple of questions: how many hours are you planning for the year; there’s been some talk about how you got through your injury – how did you recover so fast, as I understand you had a rod inserted in your arm – if that’s true, your recovery is amazing!!!Thanks and regards to your Grandpa.Marty Hall
P.S. will you still go to Europe on time?
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Hi Marty,
As of right now my plan is to still head over to Europe on time with the rest of the team. I have a follow up appointment on the 14th, and unless they think that is a bad idea, I will plan on heading over.
I still might be doing some one-pole skiing for the first couple weeks. I plan on sitting out the World Cup races in Finland and ideally my first races would be in Lillehammer, Norway in the beginning of December.
Elbows are tough injuries because they easily stiffen up, but luckily they have a pretty short bone healing period of about six weeks. It obviously takes awhile to regain my upper body strength, but I’ve been working a lot on stretching my arm out and hope to regain full mobility in the next few weeks. Since I can still use my legs, I’ve been using running, hiking, and strength to keep training. It could still be a little while before I start using my upper body, but I should have some strong legs 🙂
I think my training hours for this year will end up being around 650.
Regards,
Sophie




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