Obviously I have not been attending to my blog.  I simply have had no time.  But I have been up to a lot of really sweet things.Since I last wrote, the snow melted, about 4 times.  But we kept having enough to ski.  This resulted in some friends and I taking out the rockiest of all rock skis and doing some dumb things on skis.  It was just kind of nice to be out in shorts and a t-shirt and actually be able to ski.  Sure, some spots were just ice, others were grass.  We did this quite a few days.  Then, well, it snowed again.  Five inches of wet, heavy, (did I mention heavy?) snow fell from the sky like manna.  It was too warm to groom, but I did a couple skate workouts in it anyway.

Why Mo-T why?  Because I was preparing for my final race of the year, the ABR spring race.  I wanted to get in a few more skate workouts before this freestyle race.  The race was pretty sweet.  Yea, I did come in 63rd out of 70, but I was only 72% back from the winner.  I know, this sounds completely disgusting and you can’t believe they let me keep a blog on fasterskier.com.  Let me remind you, though, that this was after only my first full year of training.  The skate races I did last year I was 111% and 105% back from the winner.  So, yes, I think that’s something to be  proud of.  So much improvement in one year, and I got better in every skate race I did this year. 

Also, it was just a super fun race to do.  Have you ever skied peltonen pass out at ABR?  Because that’s part of the race course and, despite the warm temperatures, I have never gone so fast on skis on the down hills.  Seriously, my life flashed before my eyes.  I had a couple (okay, 3) pretty sick falls.  But it felt awesome to be racing in sunshine and almost 50 degrees before the race was over.  Shortsleeves? Yes.  I almost wore shorts, but my falls were nasty enough that I was thankful I didn’t.  Another reason it was so fun was because I had my own little support team out on the course to give me an extra aid station.  I felt pretty much like an elite.

Since then, it has been rest, rest, and more rest.  Well, if you call teaching pre-k, waking up at 6am to receive food orders, and full days of work in the office rest.  Or, if you call youth night, Mass band, a sleepover with highschoolers and a 24hr food fast rest.  I also spent 5 of the last 8 nights in a bed/home that wasn’t my own.  But, I have not been working out at all.  I have enough minor injuries that I definitely needed to let them heal before I move on with my training. 

Then yesterday, there was the huge pile of snow I spread out into a nice little loop so I could get in one more (short) ski.  I felt like Tom Sawyer as I conned 2 of my roommates into helping me spread out the snow, even though there was nothing in it for them.   Hahahahahaha.  (that was my evil laugh).

Okay, a super busy day and week of work await me.  Check back soon for pictures from all the aforementioned events and jocularity.

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