After the season I flew home to Vermont and spent 3 weeks at home, catching up with friends and hanging out with my parents. I really love the weather in Vermont in the spring, rainy, foggy and just damp, but every once in a while you will get a sunny day and it has a special feeling. Like a really good friend who you don’t get to see much giving you a hug. Kind of like my dog, Charley, giving her pal Tad (my Uncle and Aunt’s dog who spent 2 weeks at our house) a little spooning love in the picture above!
After the season I flew home to Vermont and spent 3 weeks at home, catching up with friends and hanging out with my parents. I really love the weather in Vermont in the spring, rainy, foggy and just damp, but every once in a while you will get a sunny day and it has a special feeling. Like a really good friend who you don’t get to see much giving you a hug. Kind of like my dog, Charley, giving her pal Tad (my Uncle and Aunt’s dog who spent 2 weeks at our house) a little spooning love in the picture above!
After the season I flew home to Vermont and spent 3 weeks at home, catching up with friends and hanging out with my parents. I really love the weather in Vermont in the spring, rainy, foggy and just damp, but every once in a while you will get a sunny day and it has a special feeling. Like a really good friend who you don’t get to see much giving you a hug. Kind of like my dog, Charley, giving her pal Tad (my Uncle and Aunt’s dog who spent 2 weeks at our house) a little spooning love in the picture above!
Dang, I can’t believe that we are already a week into the 2011-2012 Vakava season!
Last season was another good one for the skiers of Vakava Racing. I am sure I will get around to a recap post of the season with numbers and such (I still have a half-written post recapping my Birkie that I need to finish). Sounds like projects for another day.
The upcoming season promises to be another great one for the team. I am pretty sure that we will be returning our full roster from last year, and will no doubt add a couple of skiers too. Can’t wait to see what everyone will do with another year of training together (I am looking over my shoulder waiting for the Russian Rocket to blow by me – with another year of technique I think he might!). We are going to try better to keep the skiing community up to date on our team’s adventures and exploits this next year – we are a pretty unique group of skiers considering the nearly 40 year age range of skiers in our group all working together and skiing fast, and I think our stories need to be told better. To start with, we will try to keep this blog updated!
As for the latest in my life: Nichole keeps rocking along on her marathon training, and I just try to keep up on her easy days. Working full time keeps cutting into my training, but I do love my job (and being done with school!). We lost a training partner about a month ago when our awesome dog Ellie was hit and killed by a car, and things have been a bit boring around our house since. Solution: we are adopting a new dog this weekend – a 5 year old Vizsla named Mesa! I don’t know if that poor dog knows what she is up for and the miles she will put on. I can’t wait to pound the trails in the Carleton arb with a dog again. Fun times!
Dang, I can’t believe that we are already a week into the 2011-2012 Vakava season!
Last season was another good one for the skiers of Vakava Racing. I am sure I will get around to a recap post of the season with numbers and such (I still have a half-written post recapping my Birkie that I need to finish). Sounds like projects for another day.
The upcoming season promises to be another great one for the team. I am pretty sure that we will be returning our full roster from last year, and will no doubt add a couple of skiers too. Can’t wait to see what everyone will do with another year of training together (I am looking over my shoulder waiting for the Russian Rocket to blow by me – with another year of technique I think he might!). We are going to try better to keep the skiing community up to date on our team’s adventures and exploits this next year – we are a pretty unique group of skiers considering the nearly 40 year age range of skiers in our group all working together and skiing fast, and I think our stories need to be told better. To start with, we will try to keep this blog updated!
As for the latest in my life: Nichole keeps rocking along on her marathon training, and I just try to keep up on her easy days. Working full time keeps cutting into my training, but I do love my job (and being done with school!). We lost a training partner about a month ago when our awesome dog Ellie was hit and killed by a car, and things have been a bit boring around our house since. Solution: we are adopting a new dog this weekend – a 5 year old Vizsla named Mesa! I don’t know if that poor dog knows what she is up for and the miles she will put on. I can’t wait to pound the trails in the Carleton arb with a dog again. Fun times!
Dang, I can’t believe that we are already a week into the 2011-2012 Vakava season!
Last season was another good one for the skiers of Vakava Racing. I am sure I will get around to a recap post of the season with numbers and such (I still have a half-written post recapping my Birkie that I need to finish). Sounds like projects for another day.
The upcoming season promises to be another great one for the team. I am pretty sure that we will be returning our full roster from last year, and will no doubt add a couple of skiers too. Can’t wait to see what everyone will do with another year of training together (I am looking over my shoulder waiting for the Russian Rocket to blow by me – with another year of technique I think he might!). We are going to try better to keep the skiing community up to date on our team’s adventures and exploits this next year – we are a pretty unique group of skiers considering the nearly 40 year age range of skiers in our group all working together and skiing fast, and I think our stories need to be told better. To start with, we will try to keep this blog updated!
As for the latest in my life: Nichole keeps rocking along on her marathon training, and I just try to keep up on her easy days. Working full time keeps cutting into my training, but I do love my job (and being done with school!). We lost a training partner about a month ago when our awesome dog Ellie was hit and killed by a car, and things have been a bit boring around our house since. Solution: we are adopting a new dog this weekend – a 5 year old Vizsla named Mesa! I don’t know if that poor dog knows what she is up for and the miles she will put on. I can’t wait to pound the trails in the Carleton arb with a dog again. Fun times!
Dang, I can’t believe that we are already a week into the 2011-2012 Vakava season!
Last season was another good one for the skiers of Vakava Racing. I am sure I will get around to a recap post of the season with numbers and such (I still have a half-written post recapping my Birkie that I need to finish). Sounds like projects for another day.
The upcoming season promises to be another great one for the team. I am pretty sure that we will be returning our full roster from last year, and will no doubt add a couple of skiers too. Can’t wait to see what everyone will do with another year of training together (I am looking over my shoulder waiting for the Russian Rocket to blow by me – with another year of technique I think he might!). We are going to try better to keep the skiing community up to date on our team’s adventures and exploits this next year – we are a pretty unique group of skiers considering the nearly 40 year age range of skiers in our group all working together and skiing fast, and I think our stories need to be told better. To start with, we will try to keep this blog updated!
As for the latest in my life: Nichole keeps rocking along on her marathon training, and I just try to keep up on her easy days. Working full time keeps cutting into my training, but I do love my job (and being done with school!). We lost a training partner about a month ago when our awesome dog Ellie was hit and killed by a car, and things have been a bit boring around our house since. Solution: we are adopting a new dog this weekend – a 5 year old Vizsla named Mesa! I don’t know if that poor dog knows what she is up for and the miles she will put on. I can’t wait to pound the trails in the Carleton arb with a dog again. Fun times!
Everything is going well here with my rehab. I feel like I am improving a lot with every week. Today I managed my first run outside, which felt awesome! I guess it was great because I was outside running, the … Continue reading →
Everything is going well here with my rehab. I feel like I am improving a lot with every week. Today I managed my first run outside, which felt awesome! I guess it was great because I was outside running, the … Continue reading →
Everything is going well here with my rehab. I feel like I am improving a lot with every week. Today I managed my first run outside, which felt awesome! I guess it was great because I was outside running, the … Continue reading →
Everything is going well here with my rehab. I feel like I am improving a lot with every week. Today I managed my first run outside, which felt awesome! I guess it was great because I was outside running, the … Continue reading →
In the next month I will be moving to Minneapolis, MN. I will still get to see everyone at the ‘LCO Club’ while I am in town for training camps, but I am also meeting a whole new group at the Boys and Girls Club in North Minneapolis.
Devontre after setting a record in the obstacle course
at the park in front of the Boys and Girls Club
Yes, that is one huge dog. Getting ready to start a chess and mankala tournament
after Power Hour and Homework time.
The Gerry Gamble Boys and Girls Club is just a mile up the street from Caitlin and my new house. It is fun to talk to the kids about the neighborhood and realized that they live practically right next door. I am still learning names and faces while I build my street ‘cred’ at the new ‘Club.’ I am already thinking about how we can get the city kids up to Hayward to visit the LCO Club and the north woods. Similarly it would be fun to give the LCO kids a chance to experience life in the city.
I will still be up north in Hayward quite a bit for training camps.
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