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Archive for February, 2009

Unconscious, dude!

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

What I’m listening to right now: DI.fm European Trance Channel

Today I tried a couple of new rossi demo setups at Kincaid. I was up practically all night celebrating with the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame guys, so my body wasn’t all there but it was fun trying out some new stuff. I’ve never used Rossignol gear before and was stoked that that first pair of skis were FAST! They’ve got a little more pop than my Fischers and were super slick on tonight’s tilled up old snow.

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Petra’s got it goin on

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Check out this interview with Petra Majdic. If she wasn’t 100 feet taller than me I might be infatuated:
 http://nordiccommentaryproject.blogspot….

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Spring is coming

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

The last week has been really nice up here in Anchorage. The sun has been out and it actually been warm out (which means it hasn’t actually been *cold*). Some of us like to think that spring is on it’s way around this time of year, because we can believe that just long enough to ignore another freezing dump of snow or particularly nippy, cloudy week.

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Sven Johansson

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

The Sven

Yesterday was a bright, sunny, fast day for the Sven Johansson 30K, otherwise known as the “Tour of Kincaid.” Dude, this race is rough and I don’t think I’ve ever talked to anyone that felt like they were on top of their stuff the whole way. The idea is to cover as much of the park as possible, and while it used to hit the enormous rolling climbs in the Horseshoe Loop and Lake Loop, it does a pretty good job of hitting just about every other hill in the park.

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Deep Americana

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

One easy way to take a huge step deep into modern Americana is to roll into a low-end diner at 4:30 in the morning and order a Farmer’s Skillet with a cup of coffee. That’s a on-way trip to a place like Battle Mountain, Nevada, a desert town on the freeway from Reno to Twin Falls. America’s got cowboys, astronauts, colonial revolutionists, but there’s something about the trucker world that screams “America!” the most to me.

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Twiddle Toddle

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Funny how the movies in the eighties could get away with a story moral that reads “Stand outside some girl’s window playing ‘your song’ and you’ll cruise off into the sunset in your firebird”. Hilarious – maybe I’ll try that sometime.

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Media For Consumption

Monday, February 9th, 2009

I skipped a 30K classic race I was psyched about. Instead, I got over two hours of L3+ cardio elsewhere…

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There is No Spoon

Friday, February 6th, 2009

What’s on my iPod right now: www.friskyradio.com

There was a moment in LA when I realized that there was nothing I could do about the fact that I wasn’t able to workout consistently for over a month. I realized that there was just too much other stuff going on and I wasn’t able to balance it all out to make training a priority, which I had obviously done because I was scheduling all other activities around working out, getting sleep, learning, eating, focusing.

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