This past week has been a great one, everyone on the team FINALLY got back to what we all love... SKIING! The alpine team packed up last friday and headed off to Vail for some excellent training, while the nordic team headed up to West Yellowstone. We could not have asked for better conditions, Vail is in the best shape I have ever seen it this early in the season. We were lucky enough to have weather similar to what one would expect in late March, cold temps at night and 30-40 degree highs each afternoon with bluebird skies. The first 3 days we headed over to Copper Mountain for some free skiing to get back to some basics. On Tuesday we enjoyed a much needed day of rest which included a pretty intense Walleyball session at the Cascade Resort gym. Wednesday to Friday we all hopped right into full length GS in the race arena at Vail. The GS sessions were the best training I have had in the past 4 or 5 years, the set-up at Vail is truly world class, we were very lucky to have our training camp there. With a world class training arena comes world class skiers, we were blessed with the oppurtunity to train alongside some of the fastest skiers in the world, beacuse many world cup teams have been skiing Vail in preperation for the upcoming world cups in Aspen and Beaver Creek. It is really good to see the preperation and skill that the world's best put on display last week, I think we were all motivated to train the same way. We all are skiing pretty fast too, I think its safe to say this season is shaping up to be a good one! On thanksgiving Max's parents made the trip over from Crested Butte to prepare a feast which will not soon be forgotten, i'll go out on a limb here and say Joyce Lamb's apple salad ranks among the best foods of which I have ever consumed! The camp was a great experience but there were also a few lows to the week. The first was a crash Sofia took on the first day of skiing which led to a seperated shoulder, she's a tough girl so after one day in the condo she was back on snow. I'm sure she will be back to regular training in no time. Then came the food poisening incident! Freshman phenom, Max Lamb, may need to practice some hand washing techniques. We had taco night and Max chose to play with some raw ground beef then followed that by eating a burrito with his hands, without washing his hands prior to consumption. This rookie mistake led to massive amounts of fluid discharge at the Copper Mountain base area the next morning. I trust you all have heard about the rule of three? Well if you haven't, it states that bad things come in groups of three. The third came during a basketball game on Saturday, Nick suffered a pretty bad rolled ankle. It swelled up immediately, he is going get an x-ray this week, lets all hope it is just a sprain. As far as I have heard the nordies had great training in West Yellowstone and are looking strong heading into the competition season. Max and I are currently still in Colorado, we will be racing the opening Nor-Ams in Loveland and Aspen this week. We are both totally stoked on the oppurtunity to put our hard training to work and see if we can slay some good runs in these races!!!
WE ARE LOOKING STRONG AND READY TO GET 12!!!
I'll leave you with a couple of the alpine teams favorite motivational words:
NO NOTHING BABY, NNNFFFFFFFFF!!!
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