The birds fly south, the retired migrate to Florida and the skiers pack up their duffel bags to chase flakes in West Yellowstone, Montana. This is November; the season of location change.br /br /Although my ski team comes darn close to immediate, it has been almost a decade since I have had Thanksgiving with my family. This year, we race on the eve of the feast as well as the two days following so the day of thanks will be filled with eating and resting!br /br /div style=”text-align: center;”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PPMeqZXka1Y/SwoKVgzWw_I/AAAAAAAAAqs/F36-HEh43NM/s1600/IMG_1817.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 368px; height: 400px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PPMeqZXka1Y/SwoKVgzWw_I/AAAAAAAAAqs/F36-HEh43NM/s400/IMG_1817.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407145667310568434″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-style: italic;”span style=”font-size:85%;”Colin, Sophie, Mikey – North of Ketchum, the week before Westbr /br //span/spandiv style=”text-align: left;”span style=”font-size:100%;”A year ago this Friday I raced the first event of the season and tore 2 and bulged 3 disks in my lower back. This time around, things will be better. The classic sprint on Wednesday is a qualifier (roughly a 1.5k race)/span. Friday is a 5k skate with a 10k classic to follow on Saturday. These are three races that I am excited for, confident about and ready to do. Let the games begin.br /br /Ferritin update: From 11 in September to 20 in October, I am now at 30! Continuing my treck back up to 60, where I was in ’06, I am headed in the right direction. hopefully a really encouraging post to come on Wednesday! `katebr /span style=”font-style: italic;”/span/divspan style=”font-style: italic;”/span/divdiv class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4299718529371785873-977825854409266762?l=in-the-arena-kate.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div
