a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Qy8LpbgYOag/TNhWsH0a9CI/AAAAAAAAAdA/XArYsFZlGGo/s1600/email_cabin.jpg”img style=”float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Qy8LpbgYOag/TNhWsH0a9CI/AAAAAAAAAdA/XArYsFZlGGo/s400/email_cabin.jpg” border=”0″ alt=””id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537271057865176098″ //abr /br /For the past week I’ve been calling Sjusjoen, Norway home. The mountain town sits twenty kilometers outside Lillehammer. The place is pretty sweet, with incredible facilities, both from the long tradition of sport here, and the influx that came here for the 1994 Winter Olympics. The ex-pat Mike Meyers set me up with a nice little cabin by the lake beside the Rustad Hotell. If you’re ever in this neighborhood, you should check this place out: http://www.rustadhotel.nobr /br /br /br /br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qy8LpbgYOag/TNhWrkwVpVI/AAAAAAAAAc4/EOg1hMbzHSE/s1600/email_torin_and_JA.jpg”img style=”float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qy8LpbgYOag/TNhWrkwVpVI/AAAAAAAAAc4/EOg1hMbzHSE/s400/email_torin_and_JA.jpg” border=”0″ alt=””id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537271048452810066″ //abr /br /While in Norway I’ll be racing with Team Sjusjoen. The team is a professional outfit, and is actually the oldest team of its kind in Norway. Former World Cup podium boy John Anders Gaustad took over the coaching duties this year for this team of ten. Here JA and I get in a couple hot laps around the tracks here. I also picked up a couple good pointers from the man himself. Good times, good stuff. br /br /br /br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qy8LpbgYOag/TNhWrRY-gFI/AAAAAAAAAcw/AxK1qb9SqPQ/s1600/email_julbordet_med_TeamSjusjoen.jpg”img style=”float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qy8LpbgYOag/TNhWrRY-gFI/AAAAAAAAAcw/AxK1qb9SqPQ/s400/email_julbordet_med_TeamSjusjoen.jpg” border=”0″ alt=””id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537271043254550610″ //abr /br /Here Team Sjusjoen gathers around the training table. This evening, though, was a bit more spoecial. As the last night of the last training camp before the racing season kicks off in Beitostolen, Norway we had a julbordet, or Christmas Table. You know, eating all those delicious Scandinavian specialties like rotten fish, salted pork and lefsa. I know your jealous…br /br /br /object width=”640″ height=”385″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Cz5O2HA4vZ0?fs=1amp;hl=en_US”/paramparam name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/paramparam name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”/paramembed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Cz5O2HA4vZ0?fs=1amp;hl=en_US” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”640″ height=”385″/embed/objectbr /And a lil quick viv for you interested ski fans out there:div class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2910103639238326543-5949019307270983424?l=methowolympicdevelopment.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div
