{"id":3430,"date":"2015-02-03T14:51:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T22:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2015-02-03T14:51:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T22:51:46","slug":"ready-set-ski-shoot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/ready-set-ski-shoot-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready, Set&#8230;Ski and Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Johnson, Silver Sage sponsored athlete and Far West Elite XC Ski Team member fresh off the biathlon circuit, reports&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/biathlon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3432\" src=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/biathlon2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"biathlon2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/biathlon2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/biathlon2-1030x687.jpg 1030w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/biathlon2-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/biathlon2-705x470.jpg 705w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/biathlon2-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below is a clip from a recent biathlon sprint race I competed in last month in Soldier Hollow, Utah.\u00a0So far this season I\u2019ve travelled to races in Canada, Minnesota, Alaska and Utah. In the coming month I\u2019ll be heading to races in Idaho, New York, and Wisconsin, and then I\u2019ll be back in Truckee in March for the biathlon national championships, hosted by Auburn Ski Club.<\/p>\n<p>This time of year, our body builds up a lot of fatigue from all of the racing and travelling, and our priority is to keep ourselves rested and healthy for our upcoming races.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/biathlon11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3433\" src=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/biathlon11-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"biathlon1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/biathlon11-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/biathlon11-1030x687.jpg 1030w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/biathlon11-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/biathlon11-705x470.jpg 705w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/biathlon11-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons we do large amounts of intensity and volume training in the summer and fall is so that we have a good training base built up, which allows us to \u201ccoast\u201d through the season. With so much racing and travelling, we have less energy and time to put into other training sessions, so we rely heavily on that large training base we built to keep us fast and fresh thorough the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Photography courtesy of\u00a0Jakob Ellingson<\/p>\n<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TbLLnOswKBM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Johnson, Silver Sage sponsored athlete and Far West Elite XC Ski Team member fresh off the biathlon circuit, reports&#8230; Below is a clip from a recent biathlon sprint race I competed in last month in Soldier Hollow, Utah.\u00a0So far this season I\u2019ve travelled to races in Canada, Minnesota, Alaska and Utah. In the coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletes-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3435,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions\/3435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}