Oh Man

It's Monday afternoon and things have been pretty crazy and I finally feel like I am settling back in after a bonkers weekend. Training last week was really good. Had a hard time trying to get my legs to recover from some of my stupid workouts. I was going out for a double pole and had a tip break and instead of going back for a new tip I tried to no pole classic for an hour, my legs paid the price. My left ankle is still messed up after coming off this summer's sprain. It's hard to get my left ski to track well since I can't stay stable. Anyway after a nice easy Friday ski we had a rainy time trial out on river road. Felt good, not really fast, but I felt in control and got some speed going in the end. Zizzy won for the second year in a row, Beano was second, I could see him in front of my for about half of the race and our gap was about the same but he made a big push on one of the easier hills and pulled away. I was third and happy with my result. Being such a social minded team we help out at Make a Difference Day and cleaned a playground in town. Saturday night was the world famous OC Halloween Party. Everyone made it out and the weather held out for the most part. The band was dope and I couldn't have asked for much more. Sunday morning was pretty funny hearing the stories filter out as we got in a good running OD. Anyway another week in the books and the season has really started now that the world cup has gotten going. I am taking today off, maybe throwing in a light easy run before the sauna.

I really want to get on snow soon, it sucks that it has been so warm lately. The team seems to be coming along really well, good efforts by both the mens and womens teams and everyone seems fit. I think as a mens team we could really crack into the top this year. Everyone is focused and Ethan and Knut's attention to detail is awesome. Training at Higely state park is nice too because the road is closed down so we can ski four or five wide in double pole intervals without watching out for cars. We also found out that dragging our rollerskis on the pavement makes the bolts shoot sparks, everyone thought this was awesome (well the mens team). Thats about it from here.