19 November 2009

Launch of the new Peak Performance shop in shop and the award winning Heli Collection

When: Friday November 20, 2009, starting at 6 p.m.

Why: Need another reason to celebrate the arrival of the winter season? A DJ will entertain, and drinks and bites will be served.

A JACKET WILL BE GIVEN AWAY EVERY 1/2 HOUR!

Okanagan skiers will be delighted to learn that Peak Performance, the renowned sport clothing brand from Sweden, now offers an exclusive new "shop in shop" area at Fresh Air Concept, 555 Groves Ave, Kelowna. Fresh Air Concept wanted to offer a prestigious brand of active wear to its customers, who are exacting and informed and demand the very best from their ski apparel.

Don't miss the award-winning Heli Collection, a completely new and comprehensive skiwear line at Fresh Air Concept, created for the advanced freerider who refuses to compromise on performance and function.

The Peak Performance winter collection has arrived at Fresh Air and is available in a wide choice of styles in a variety of colours and sizes.

Fresh Air Concept
555 Groves Ave, Kelowna BC
250-763-3425

16 November 2009

03 November 2009

By Tara Miller

It’s a crisp October night and I’m racing up hills at the cemetery. This is not a pre-Halloween ritual I assure you, but at first seemed like an oddity for week five of Fresh Air Experience’s Learn to Run Clinic.

More daunting than creepy, was this week’s incorporation of the hill at the cemetery entrance as part of hill training. The theory behind the training: running at a fast pace up a hill followed by a full recovery in a set of six-10 cycles can be an effective way to increase your strength and endurance.

A paramount theme through each week is always form. This week with hill training our coach Graham Hood stresses again “Focus on form. The minute your form breaks down, you’re gonna hurt”.

Hood prepped us for hill training. “Keep it short and sweet do hills at a faster pace than your regular run. Keep hills short – form will break down with long hills – keep hills to a distance where you can maintain your form.”

Sprinting up the hill in our group was enough of a challenge that I think most of us forget there were gravestones beside us and those of us that didn’t had extra incentive for speed on our dark night.

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23 October 2009

By Tara Miller

We are half way through the Learn to Run clinic at Fresh Air Experience!

With a sparser crew than usual due to those travelling for Thanksgiving last weekend and others involved in various marathons throughout the province, our mixed group got some basics of running shoes from Fresh Air Experience manager, Owen Taylor.

Taylor’s quick demo on running shoes begins with a lesson on biomechanics, “The foot lands on the outside of the heel and follows a pattern of slight rotation or roll to the ball of the foot to propel you forward while absorbing shock, stabilizing and balancing.”

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