Day 41 - Tuesday Mar 11 - Now This is Training

Some of you may be tired of hearing about the upcoming race. Well get over it! It only happens once a year and I am excited about it. Jer, Cody, and I met at 5:30 this morning to train for the race. We went up to do Patsy Marley as hard and as fast as we could. I have to say that I was surprised how hard and fast this was. Jer got up front early and Codeman and I were doing our best just to keep up with him. The problem was that daylight savings this past weekend has significantly postponed the sunrise making it too dark to ski once we reached the top and had made our transition. We took a little break and waited for the sun then went back to race mode. We then did three more fast laps on the West half of the ridge really focusing on fast transitions and fast uptracks. I was really pleased with my transitions this morning. I was able to put my skins on my skis without taking my skis off and save a bunch of time doing so. As much as it may not sound like it to some of you, it was a pretty fun morning. The skiing was surprisingly good - you just had to navigate through some existing turns in the snow, but it did remain soft. On ski.