span class=”Apple-style-span” style=” color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;”pspan style=”font-size:85%;”The last 5 weeks I have been very focused in my training, racing and recovery. The races in West Yellowstone were a strong start to the season, and I felt even better about my performances in Bozeman. No spotlight races, but very consistent across distance, sprint, classic and skate which has been a major goal of mine the past few years. We are now up in Silver Star, BC getting ready for this weekends NorAm. All of the non-World Cup skiers from North American are here. It will be a highly competitive race. It is my understanding that for the Canadians, the winner of the race earns a spot on the Olympic Team. After a good hard day of intervals in the morning and strength in the afternoon on Wednesday, today was a recovery day. Matt, Karl and I went for a long circumnavigation ski adventure of the Silver Star and Sovereign Lake Trails. /span/pp style=”text-align: center;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-size:small;”img src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/SyG0dzXri6I/AAAAAAAAAlA/Q_o_LFEWb9g/s400/SilverStar+029.jpg” style=”cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;” border=”0″ alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413806651174783906″ //span/pp style=”text-align: center;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-family:arial;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-size: small;”Today was a warm day at 10F. It is nice to wax inside and Matt is excited to try his new Nordic Ultratune XC02/span/span/pp align=”center”span style=”font-size:85%;”img src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/SyG0eFT3RWI/AAAAAAAAAlI/Yi639s8pc5A/s400/SilverStar+032.jpg” style=”cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;” border=”0″ alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413806655990613346″ /br /We can get on the trails right from the door to our condo./span/pp align=”center”span style=”font-size:85%;”img src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/SyG0ea3HjhI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/d353fX2Gnco/s400/SilverStar+036.jpg” style=”cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 363px;” border=”0″ alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413806661775625746″ /br /3 inches of fresh powder turned us into downhill skiers/span/pp align=”center”span style=”font-size:85%;”img src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/SyG08imOL9I/AAAAAAAAAlY/RADXo4KZb4A/s400/SilverStar+040.jpg” style=”cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;” border=”0″ alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413807179248316370″ /br /Silver Star allows you a few trips up the chair lift.br /Normally I prefer to ski up the hill, but today was a recovery day and it was nice to gain the vertical/span/pp align=”center”span style=”font-size:85%;”img src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/SyG08ytBCTI/AAAAAAAAAlg/V_Nnl-w5Kd0/s400/SilverStar+043.jpg” style=”cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;” border=”0″ alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413807183571781938″ /br /Matt, Karl, and I enjoying Alder Point. A beautiful spot even on a cloudy day/span/pp align=”center”span style=”font-size:85%;”img src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/SyG09ciPWkI/AAAAAAAAAlo/e5CdWgYrafo/s400/SilverStar+045.jpg” /br /We finished our 3 hour ski by skiing down main street which is actually a groomed ski trail. This town really is a skier’s paradise. I really wish I had brought some money to hit up the Bugaboo Bakery/span/p/spandiv class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8083254037538554650-8964324145075591054?l=in-the-arena-brian.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div
