a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3c1Nv5NLyNg/Sz2NICbjG4I/AAAAAAAABEs/C9e4sFYbXOI/s1600-h/Emily.jpg”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3c1Nv5NLyNg/Sz2NICbjG4I/AAAAAAAABEs/C9e4sFYbXOI/s400/Emily.jpg” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421644695654833026″ border=”0″ //aEmily (bib 21) in her Quarterfinal heat.br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3c1Nv5NLyNg/Sz2NHm7dhzI/AAAAAAAABEk/1O4kNv0P-5A/s1600-h/dev.jpg”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3c1Nv5NLyNg/Sz2NHm7dhzI/AAAAAAAABEk/1O4kNv0P-5A/s400/dev.jpg” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421644688272492338″ border=”0″ //aDev taking charge in the J2 Semifinal.br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3c1Nv5NLyNg/Sz2NHYYwLtI/AAAAAAAABEc/7lhlUIJFHoM/s1600-h/dev”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 1px; height: 1px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3c1Nv5NLyNg/Sz2NHYYwLtI/AAAAAAAABEc/7lhlUIJFHoM/s400/dev” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421644684368817874″ border=”0″ //abr /David Sinclair, Hans and Kristin Halvorsen, Emily Stitt and I are in Anchorage, Alaska for US Senior Nationals. We left Waitsfield on the 29th and arrived here last night after a little vacation week travel delay. The good news is we have a great weather forecast here for the week and the snow is hard and fast. We had a short skate today with some quick, hard intensity to wake up the muscles and get ready for the skate sprint on Saturday.br /br /The athletes will be competing alongside some of the best skiers from throughout the US. The races serve as trials for several international teams including: the Olympics, U23 World Champs, World Junior Champs and the J1 Scandinavian Trip(which Coach Weston will lead). Beyond that the top twenty juniors after the first three races will auto-qualify for Junior Nationals and give additional skiers to New England’s quota.br /br /Tomorrow Will Sweetser (MWSC) and I will continue to test and wax skis for our first event. The athletes will do a short ski and do one last round of inspection and test run the course. Although these races are not the end goal of the season for the athletes they have all trained hard to get here and are poised to have great races. It’s exciting for all of them to be on the same trails as World Cup skiers like, Freeman, Koos, Randall and Stephen.br /br /Today we snuck in a drive up Turnagain Arm to the town of Girdwood for a burger at the SilverTipGrill. Girdwood is home to Alyeska, one of the most famous alpine ski areas in Alaska. On the drive we took in views of the sun soaked mountains on the Kenai Peninsula and our Bald Eagle count is up to three.br /br /Stay tuned as the week progresses. Also threw in a few more pictures from Presque Isle that I found on NENSA’s flickr page.div class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1847564486460994594-3440267216295350884?l=gmvsxc.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div
