I am currently training for my first snowshoe race coming up in January. I already feel stronger from just a couple hard snowshoe sessions. It looks like I am not the only one who sees the positive aspect of snowshoeing, this article posted today in the Rocky Mountain News also promotes the benefits of snowshoeing to athletes:
The sport has been growing by leaps and bounds in recent years, thanks to advances in snowshoe design and the desire of many runners, triathletes and cyclists to test their competitive mettle during winter. Are you running a spring marathon? Training for the Bolder Boulder in May? Or do you have plans to do your first triathlon in the spring?
Snowshoe racing can be a valuable offseason training tool, Denver resident and pro triathlete Greg Krause said.
“Snowshoe races keep me motivated to train in the winter,” said Krause, who won the 2004 U.S. Snowshoe Championship.
“I use the races as my only hard workouts in the middle of my winter base training, and I think it pays off huge in the spring and summer months during the ‘tri’ season. The strength I gain snowshoeing in the winter comes in handy when climbing on the bike or in the late stages in the run in a triathlon during the summer months.”
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1 TheTracy // Dec 29, 2006 at 8:19 am
Wow, I didn’t even know there was such a thing as snowshoe racing! It sounds fun. I’ll have to see if I can get to an area that actually has snow sometime this winter.