Well, I have been nefariously bad at blogging this summer, but I am trying for the grand comeback here now.

 

Since my last blog post way too many things have happened for me to fully fill you in, but I will touch on the basics.  As the photos above illustrate, I had a few hiking and crust skiing

So far this spring has been excellent.  After the races in Maine (which went pretty darn well, a good solid way to end the season) it was time to do all the things that I don’t do while training, in short order.

 

First I went on a one nighter in the White Mountains near Fairbanks with my sisters,

Today it’s been so beautifully sunny, I think that I managed to fully sun burn my whole face.  Except my forehead, but there may be time for that later.  I do know that I skied way too long and didn’t mean to.  That doesn’t happen too often, I am quite fastidious about doing the exact workout that

So here it is, for all you doubters and cynics, I got that darn photo.  Incidentally, the biggest and probably only doubter and cynic was me, but thanks to some serious encouragement from friends I developed some chutzpah.  It took me a couple of days, I had some bad luck and bad timing in the

Well we did a short classic prologue today.  For me it went okay, not totally awesome but not a total disaster.  I felt a little slow-mo at the start, and my 30th place reflected that. On the bright side, Mikey Sinott kicked some serious butt, ending up 6th with a 39 point race.  For you Nordic