East Coast Road Trip
By Jojo Winters and Heather Zimmerman
The CXC Elite Team has made its third annual pilgrimage out to Lake Placid, New York, for an East Coast training camp at the Olympic Training Center. Training is underway as the CXC Team joins other skiers from around the country in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. While most of the CXC Team drove out to New York from the Midwest, CXC athletes Heather Zimmerman and Jojo Winters made a special trek starting from New Hampshire’s campus town of Durham up to Lake Placid. With multiple maps in hand and snacks scattered about the car, the two set out along the winding mountain passes of New England. Once night fell and the scenery faded into darkness, it wasn’t long before the girls began singing along to outdated pop songs on the radio to keep themselves alert (note: both Jojo and Heather might have had successful careers in musical theater in another life). There were, of course, a few instances where they had to pull over to the side of the road to check the myriad of maps for accuracy. And there were also mild occurrences of motion sickness due to the narrow, curving roadways, but all in all it was a relatively smooth ride to Lake Placid.
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