Two Days & Counting…

When I first took a look at my schedule for the year back in June, October and half of November looked like they were pretty wide open. Throughout summer and the beginning of fall I was so busy attending training camps, working on the side, and attending to other responsibilities that I was looking forward to those two months for a little down time. It has turned out to be the complete opposite! Since I last wrote about the Ski and Tea Clinic that Kristina and I held, I have worked at the Super Fit at Hoigaards, the Super Fit at Finn Sisu, and held a “Get Your Nordic On” Birkie Clinic with some of the Ely High School skiers, all of which while balancing some pretty intense training weeks. Now I have two days at home to finish up waxing some new Salomon skis (which I am extremely excited to ski since so much time has been spent selecting them) before I head to Hayward on Wednesday morning to complete a VO2 test with Bryan, and start our drive to West Yellowstone Thursday morning. Though life has been extremely busy, I feel like I am juggling responsibilities well and with no sacrifice to my training, which was something that was very difficult and sometimes even impossible to do while in college. While in Yellowstone I am looking forward to basking in the glory of a homework free trip!

  Here’s something else exciting. At Finn Sisu, the Junior Devo van came bearing gifts!  Kristina and I received our Swix poles, and fancy Vertical Limit team gear. I love my Gustavus apparel, but it is definitely time to start wearing CXC Team Vertical Limit gear, as well as sport the team’s sponsored things.

Also, a thanks to Finn Sisu who gave my classic roller skis a much needed fix. During my Ely High School clinic last Monday one of my classic roller ski shafts cracked after they were lent out to be used. My initial reaction was disappointment, but surprisingly after about five minutes, my disappointment was turned to excitement. I cracked a ski! I’ve never cracked a ski before…heck yes! Ok, so I didn’t actually crack it (one of the boys did, but that just means it would have cracked within the next few hours of me skiing on it)…and it was also delaminating, which made that area of the base start to soften, but I can still be satisfied with myself that I’ve put enough time and power into the ski that I cracked it ; ). It seems like obvious knowledge, but let your skis dry out after you use them in the rain…my bad habit of throwing them back into the rocket box of my car after every workout definitely was a huge factor in the ski breaking.

Time to get some things done before Yellowstone! Hope to see some of you there. Think snow!

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Carved Pumpkins!

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All lit up

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Gustavus Team at Yellowstone last year (2008)