Harvesting vegetables and herbs from the Center’s garden has been going on for some time now but just this week I started to feel like everything was coming out at once. A daily visit to the garden reveals something new to be picked: beans, zucchinis, kale, cucumbers, swiss chard, and a huge variety of herbs. [...]
Hey all- We’re putting together a rollerski race this sunday at the Jericho rollerski trails, and you should be there. It’s going to be a 15k for men, 10k for women, in the afternoon. It’s going to be featuring a bunch of the US’s top biathletes as well as many skiers from around New England, including [...]
We’re in the middle of a high volume week and decided to mix up our usual trails and roads with an OD run on the Long Trail. So this morning we loaded up a van and headed to the trailhead at Mud City in Morrisville. The adventure started by running up the Beaver Meadow trail [...]
Pretty much every summer I’ve ever participated in has included some heat wave that always seems to be the hottest weather I’ve ever experienced or tried to train in. I think that we’ve now finished ours for the year (or at least I hope so). Last week it was low 90’s every day here with [...]
We hosted our first BKL camp of the summer this past week. The heat was intense but it just meant that we had to go swimming a lot more – definitely not a bad thing! Coaching the BKL camps makes fitting in our own training and other work projects a little difficult but it’s also [...]
Today the SBTC folks were going to hike Mount Mansfield, and since Lauren and I had pretty much free rein to do whatever we wanted for our OD, we went with them! It was very fun to get to hike with some different friends, especially since the rest of the team had left for the [...]
I’ve been back in Craftsbury for almost two weeks now, and let me tell you, its nice to be done with classes and back to the “real world”. Haha, I’m laughing as I write that since I realize that this not at all the real world by most people’s standards. But it does feel good [...]
All the photos I took of hill-bouncing today are about to be rendered completely archaic, because, Pepa and Sheldon tell me, video of the workout is about to “go viral”. Oh goody! Everyone can see how tired I am at the end of each interval and how I’m barely making any forward progress at all! But, [...]
There are many reasons people decide to hike parts of or all of the Appalachian Trail. I met people that were out to prove they were physically capable of the challenge, others that decided to thru-hike now because they couldn’t find a job, and at least one that was hiking to lose weight for an [...]
Matt, Tim, and Ollie go to Bend. Awesomeness ensues.
Life has been plenty busy here in Craftsbury since returning at the end of April. There are gardens plots to prepare and plant, compost sheds to build, and BKL kids to coach. And, of course, plenty of training! Here are a few photos showing what I’ve been up to the last couple weeks. Pepa brought Chelsea [...]
I think everyone’s heard me say quite a few times that I hate rollerskiing. But I’ve come to a realization. I don’t hate rollerskiing! I only hate rollerskiing when I feel tired and crappy. If I feel good, then I love rollerskiing. If I feel okay, then I don’t mind it at all. So maybe [...]
Although it may be blasphemous for me to say this since I am a snow-loving skier, spring is my favorite season. The world feels like it is waking up. Critters start to move around more, and everything in nature seems happy to be alive. I start to see ducks paddling about in [...]
This past weekend I decided to head to the Pyrenees to do a little hiking in the mountains. So I took a train early Friday morning to the little ski town of Ax-les-Thermes, got a map of the hiking trails in the area, and headed off into the mountains. ”Walking season” doesn’t start in the [...]
Pepa welcomed us all back to Craftsbury with a rigorous and comprehensive testing schedule. Yesterday we had a step test on the SkiErg, and today we had a 5k; later in the week we’ll have a 1k, and next weekend, a running test on the track. I can’t say that this schedule made me super [...]
Normally I try to stay far away from running races but since I do a lot of running on my own here in France, I thought I should do some races to find more people to run with. So I looked online and found some road races. Last Thursday I found a 10km race in [...]
The day after the last classic race at Supertour Finals, my parents drove me to the Montreal Airport and I boarded a plane headed for Toulouse France. The city in the southwest of France is my home for spring. I’m studying in a Dartmouth foreign language problem, taking classes in French and living with a [...]
Matt needs to come back to Craftsbury soon, because it’s obvious based on his previous post that his tastes have been seriously compromised after his short stint in San Francisco. Matt, there is hope. Just come home, sit down at the kitchen table, eat some oven bread, and listen to some Taylor Swift [...]
Somebody email Chelsea. She has an out-of-office-i’m-on-vacation-auto-reply email thing going on. It actually says “vacation”. I didn’t know that we could technically call anything a vacation, given what we do every day. Pepa can take a vacation, sure. But us? Not sure. But maybe. But let’s say that we can take vacations, and this is it. [...]