Sorry to all my fans for the late post. I ran the Cigna 5 km road race in Manchester last Thursday, and had a very solid day, finishing 9th against a field stacked with talent from Africa (by way of New York).

Okay, not a lot of time to write. But I will try to respond.

So I raced the Bridge of Flowers 10 km last Saturday. I am just writing about it now because my internet has been broken all week. So I also haven’t written anything new about skate technique, but look for that in the next couple of days.

but not on mine. What, just ’cause he is actually fast on snow?

I had a solid workout on the track today, my last pure speed workout of the summer.

As in running race wins. Tilton-Northfield 5 km (by a minute over my former coach), John Langhans 7 or 7.2 or 7.4 - it depends on the year and what car they measure it with - milers by a minute over my brother, and the Bill Luti 5 miler by all of three seconds over a guy I used to race in college.

Wow. You would think that I would have more time to write during the summer, what with not teaching and all. But somehow you would be wrong. For a while I had the excellent excuse that I was taking a graduate course and I pretty much spent all my waking hours for a week and a half reading and writing with no time to read FasterSkier let alone write on it. And the other three weeks since I have written - well I guess I am just lazy.

When I became a blogger I was a little excited and nervous about becoming part of the “blogosphere” - that uncouth, unmoderated shoutfest that gets so much attention in the MSM (mainstream media). Of course, cross country skiers are a bit outside the mainstream, so our blogs don’t tend in that direction. Until today.

A lot has happened since my last post. School is out here at New Hampton, so I have endured final exams, graduation, lots of meetings, and also five days in the mountains with a bunch of sophomores, since our 10th graders go backpacking in lieu of exams each year. Perhaps I’ll have time to write about that later, but for now I am almost busier than I was when I had a job. But not too busy to drive to Rhode Island for a race.