Warming Up the Engine

These next week weeks are the last two before the season starts and they have been pretty eventful. We have a great club, Ski and Snowboard Club, that creates about a 500m loop to ski on by November 1st and then about 1km by mid-November. It is a little amount of skiing but it sure is nice to be on snow. We have been training on this loop for 2 weeks now and have been getting a case of vertigo but its totally worth it! Also, one of the most exciting stories of the week is that I met fellow ITA team member, Charles Christianson. We met in the gym at Ski and Snowboard Club Vail. After telling him that we were nordic skiers, he knew one of had to be his ITA teammate. Sure enough.

We have had some epic adventures and some awesome skiing. I can't stop saying it. Training has been great and I am ready to hit the season runnin'. We have had some great days of training here with some good company. I have been skiing with Sam Tarling (NCAA Champion), Conor Wallace (NCAA skier from Denver University), my other Team HomeGrown teammate Mike Vigers and a slew of other high school nordic skiers that are starting to push the level of skiing. Awsome! Some pictures are below of my recent adventures...

Lastly one of our Nordic skiers asked Lindsey Vonn to homecoming. She said YES! Bothof these guys are amazing human beings.

I will get up soe photos of my mew classroom as soon as I get our Halloween Party pictures from Mrs. Chalk. I have been loving my placement and can't wait to work with this classroom for the rest of the year!