The Nantahala Racing Club hosts a Thanksgiving Camp every year for club athletes. In the past, the club has traveled to Maryland to train at the Dickerson site but since the US National Whitewater Center opened, we have stayed in Charlotte. This camp was roughly a week long so we had plenty of time to do vigoruos workouts.

The athletes that participated in the camp were Austin Kieffer, Rick Powell, Eric Hurd, Zach Lokken, James Wade, and myslef. We started the week with some easier workouts to warm up but as the week progressed we started training harder and harder. And thanks to USA Canoe/Kayak and the US National Whitewater Center, we were able to do these workouts on whitewater which made our camp way more enjoyable.

For me, this camp was very beneficial as it was one of the hardest training weeks I have ever done. Although the weather was rough, I think everyone enjoyed training together. Now, the next major training camp will be in Lake Placid at the begining of January. Lake Placid is an olympic training site mostly for winter sports where many canoe/kayak athletes will participate in cross country skiing and other athletic activities.