Elite Team Preview: APU (as told by Reese Hanneman)
Amongst your coaches, who wins in a fight and why?
Dylan Watts really should have been a prize-winning middleweight boxer. Erik Flora is the epitome of scrappy old man, except to a whole new level. If the fight has rules? Watts. In a dark, back alley? Flora.
If you were renaming your team based on collective spirit animals, what would you call yourselves:
Based on the number of animals that try to kill our team members for fun, and how many of our team members try to kill animals for food, we have a very intimate relationship with moose. It’s like a revolving spirit cycle; we are them, and they are us.
How much can you bench press?
C’mon, the bench press is no longer the metric by which total body strength is measured… we all know that the hip-lift directly correlates to how high off the ground your skis are when you sprint. Flora has us maxing out on these five times a week. The power gains from this lift are insane; I have actually started jumping over people leapfrog style when I go to pass them from behind during double-pole intervals.
Member of your team with best personal grooming habits:
Best meaning… most epic? We had this one wax tech…
What wave of the Birkie will you be starting out of?
Womens… that way, I could just draft Holly and try to outsprint her at the line. Although I’ve heard that you can save race entry fees by borrowing a friends bib for the classic race.
How many hours of cat-ski training are you employing daily?
We actually recommend heli-skiing instead… you can get a lot more vertical in that way.
Feel free to add any addition bits that might be of interest to people willing to waste their time reading our site:
Not sure if you’ve heard, but we have a women’s team too.