Interview: Lindsay Williams
August 29, 2001
After chasing training buddy, Lindsey Weier, most of the season
last year, Lindsay Williams put it all together for the Minnesota
State High School Meet. Williams put in the best classical
performance of the meet, winning by 20 seconds. She then stayed
out front in the pursuit, even though Weier logged in the
fastest skate time, and captured the overall title. Williams
also competed in Junior Olympics last season, capturing the
J1's national sprint title.
Williams has been working hard again this summer in the
Wilson-Brochman Nordic program. Expect to see both Williams
(and Weier) near the top of the podium again this winter.
We interviewed Williams by e-mail on August 27th.
- Skinnyski: Can you give us a general run down on your
summer training?
Williams: During the summer I train with the Brochman-Wilson
Nordic Program 5 days a week. I do distance workouts on
rollerskis and on foot. I do some strength training, and
I do some mountain and road biking too. I do hard training
(intervals, time trials...) about 2 times each week, and
these are either running, ski walking or rollerskiing.
I also try to spice things up a bit by racing in a few
triathalons, and I just fininshed a 24 hour mountain bike
race (one of my teammates was Lindsey Weier).
- Skinnyski: On average, how many hours per week are
you training in the summer?
Williams: My average would be about 14 hours per week.
i have volume weeks and recovery weeks, but for the most
part I end up training about 2 hours each day.
- Skinnyski: What time of the year do you start ski specific
training?
Williams: I start my ski specific training in May. I
don't want to start too soon or too late. I found that
if I do some rollerskiing in May I'm ready to start up
more serious training in June.
- Skinnyski: Favorite summer training activity?
Williams: This is a hard question because I really enjoy
training for the most part. I really like distance rollerskiing
and mountain biking.
- Skinnyski: The one summer training activity you hate
doing the most?
Williams: Strength training inside... when I would rather
be outside.
- Skinnyski: What's the strangest/funniest thing thats
happened to you during summer training workouts?
Williams: I can't really think of anything strange that
has happened to me while training... I rollerskied on
a dirt trail in South Dakota (I have never been so thankful
for blacktop in my life)... while I was rollerskiing a
very little girl told me "I looked like an idiot doing
that"...
- Skinnyski: If you had to pick one training tip that
you think was most helpful over the years, what would it
be?
Williams: I would have to say to succede you need goals...
not just one big goal, but lots of little goals. make
the goals challenging, but also attainable. Also, when
you're working toward a goal you have to really want it,
badly.
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