I started this blog because I wanted to share with others what it was like to be a full time athlete. I wanted to share the guts and glory, trials and tribulations.

Although any day I can wake up and go to training is a good day there are times when it is tougher. And there were days during this week have been just like that. I ordinarily bike to the shooting range for training. Often with rifle, rollerskis and boots on my back and poles in my hand. It is only a 10 – 15 min trip either way so it is not so bad. The reason I chose to do so is simple, I can same money on gas and I find the light biking in the morning gets my knees nice and loose. However there are many days when I do need my Jeep, either to pick up groceries, travel to alternate training locations, ect ect. My Jeep has been responsible for getting me to so many training sessions and camps that during a long hot summers it would start to smell like sweat and Febreze air freshener. I wish I could say I treated my Jeep as well as it treated me but truth is I beat it up and it just kept on going, never leaving me stranded or stuck.

But this week it made its last trip. I always said I was going to drive that Jeep to the 2010 Olympic games, symbolic because it was a Olympic games at home and because I bought it right around the same time I started training for Biathlon.

Now I am stuck looking for a new vehicle and this is where the adversity hits for a amateur athlete.
For me the question is how much $ do I invest in a new vehicle, how much funding will be available next year and what financial surprises will this year hold? What happens if I get a nice newer car and it breaks down then what? These are the questions that really any person can face but sometimes it seems tougher when funding is inconsistent and not directly related to results taking the control out of your hands.

Either way the search is on or something new and I have to make sure it doesn’t distract from my Biathlon goals.

Here she is in her pride and glory

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