West Yellowstone 2014

It been a while since I have posted a blog. My fall has been crazy busy! Full of school, training and working. I am going to keep this blog pretty short and sweet! We are back in school now after 3 weeks off. Of those 3 weeks, the SBA nordic team spent the first week in Marin for some low elevation training! Last week we were up in West Yellowstone for over a week of on snow training! The snow was not as great as it had been in the past but it was still awesome to get back on snow! We had 5 on snow training days and ended the week with two Super Tour starts. Even though the snow was a little on the thin side, we got some amazing skiing in.

Here is a photo taken from our first day on classic skies.

Photo: Julien Boards

Sugar Bowl Mens team (besides my self)

One of the cool things I was able to do in West was fly the quadcopter. Even though it took one crash, I was able to get a cool photo and threw together a short little video!

Video here:

On Thursday we got together with the Tahoe XC team to celebrate an awesome Thanksgiving. Its always nice to be with such awesome people. 

Thanksgiving crew

That night I hit the bed pretty early to get some rest for the sprint race on Friday. I was happy with how Friday's sprints went. All the SBA team performed super well. Big shout outs to teammates Dylan Syben, Hannah Halvorsen and Anja Gruber for making the heats! It was so fun watching Hannah compete with such a big smile on her face in the heats. 

On Saturday I raced a 15k skate. This was my first real 15k race I have done. The course was 3 laps of a 5k loop. My first lap was awesome. Going into my second lap I could feel those 23 hrs of training catch up to me from the past couple of days. I still was able to finish the race strong but I think its fair to say I went out a little on the hard side. 

A giant shout out to all of our coaches for helping us throughout the week and for nailing the wax on both Friday and Saturday.

Gus and August perfecting our skis. 

Also I cant forget a giant thanks to our cook and cheerleader, YoYo!

Over all I can't express how grateful I am for all the people that surround me, and the experiences I have.