They are definitely keeping us busy at the training school this week ... schedule goes something like this:

07h30 Breakfast
08h30 Leave for morning session on crazy Austrian "bus"
09h00 - 11h00 Sprint training/Push track
12h00 Lunch
14h00 Leave for track
15h30-18h00 Sliding
19h00 Dinner and video analysis
20h00 - 21h00 Information session/sled prep

Tomorrow morning we go to the push track again - it's like the ice house in Calgary, except its on rails instead of ice ... so if you push out of the groove on this one, you are about to go for one adventurous trek through the forest, and potentially down the highway through a small, and probably surprised, Austrian village.

On the mornings that we don't go to the push track we have been going to an indoor track to work with the Austrian national athletics coach on our sprint form and techniques. Seems to me he knows what he's talking about ... !

This morning we did video analysis of our running styles, then talked about a bunch of different training ideas and learned some stability drills using balance balls and wobble boards, which we got to try (not a great pict, but it sets the scene ... )

And then the board promptly shot out from underneath my feet, my feet shot out from underneath me and I landed flat on my back while the board catapulted through the air and Micaela about strained a stomach muscle from laughing so hard.

Keeping it classy here in Austria, folks.