July 01, 2013 – Randall Not at The Eagle Glacier Camp… you could make all kinds of guesses as to why she missed this camp, as it is the least important camp of the year, possibly. My best guess is that she needs variation in everything that she’s doing right now for her Achilles tendon.

Skiing every day was going to be too much of the same type stress on her Achilles that’s in need of rest and recovery – counter to training every day. Whereas being at home she has access too many different types of training – plus lots of physio – and she can bail out on any workout. Also, rollerskiing is 100% kick…when was the last time you had any kind of a slipping type motion while skating on roller skis – never!

I think this move was to make sure that Kikkan stayed in a forward moving process and didn’t take any chances to hinder the recovery of getting on top of this tendon problem. Just walking in soft snow conditions, which it looked like they had plenty of since it wasn’t freezing at night, would be asking for it.

Looks like a smart move to me.

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