I came to Maine for the month of April with the intention of helping my Dad move. Packing up boxes and going through old stuff has kept me occupied, but I also got a temporary job working for the Kennebec Land Trust. The KLT has many conservation properties all over Kennebec County and my task [...]
My family doesn’t have much of an Easter tradition. When I was younger we would have an Easter egg hunt, with beautiful hand-painted wooden eggs that my mother made. She painted a few more every year and now we have quite a collection. I’m an only child, though, so in the last few years, unless [...]
On my way to Maine yesterday I stopped at Great Glen Trails for what will most likely be my last ski of the year. It was raining the entire way there, with not a patch of snow in sight, so I wasn’t holding my breath for amazing skiing. However the scenery started to change after [...]
I was hoping to have some pictures to post of the racing so far, but I forgot to bring the cable to connect my camera to my computer, so I guess not. Anyway, here’s a little update from Maine, pre-sprint. Ten of us, plus Pepa, are crowded into a five-bedroom house. There’s a lot of room-sharing, [...]
So I was figuring I’d wait and do a final blog post on my Estonia trip once I’d downloaded my pictures. But unfortunately my camera was in my ski bag and I don’t think I’ll get it for at least a few more days, so I’ll give a quick update on the end of the [...]
I left the BKL Festival early last weekend so I could get back to do the Stowe Derby. I’d never done it before so I decided to do the Meister (both to enable a better starting position and because it’s more hard-core). Luckily I had a wonderful mentor in Linda who explained all the considerably [...]
Really, I can feel myself getting geekier by the post. If I’m writing too many, please someone try to stop me, or check me in to blog rehab or something! But I figure that I should write blogs now when I have a bit more to write about, and then I’ll cut back down on [...]
Anyone who knows me knows two things. One, I have blond or dirty blond hair. Two, I’m not the hairiest kid you’ll find out there. Really, at my age, the amount of hair I have can be a little shocking. I have at most 6 hairs on my chest, none on my back, and very [...]
Well, the ice is broken on my first international biathlon racing experience! And it was definitely an interesting one. To begin with, it was a new type of race for me, what is called an individual race in biathlon. That means that you shoot 4 times—prone, standing, prone, standing—but instead of doing [...]
After my travel nightmare getting home from Madison, I wasn’t very excited for the travel portion of my Estonian adventure. And sure enough, it was another series of fiascos! Luckily my luggage made it to Burlington the day before I had to leave. But my flight from Burlington also got cancelled the same day. I [...]
After my travel nightmare getting home from Madison, I wasn’t very excited for the travel portion of my Estonian adventure. And sure enough, it was another series of fiascos! Luckily my luggage made it to Burlington the day before I had to leave. But my flight from Burlington also got cancelled the same day. I [...]
This past Thursday I drove home to Maine to do some frantic packing-up/giving away/recycling of stuff in my room at my Dad’s house. It turns out that if you have lived in the same house your entire life (and saved as much stuff as I do) you end up with a lot to clean out [...]
Birkie Fever. Things are heating up here in northern Wisconsin- the Birkie is tomorrow morning, bright and early. We’re planning a 5:45am departure from our cabin in Springbrook, just south of Hayward. It’s a fair haul to the start line up to Cable, and we’re going to be navigating it along with 10,000 other skiers. [...]
Back in the fall when we were flying out to Bozeman, Ollie wrote a blog entitled “adventures in air travel”. It was about how his boot bag got lost in Detroit. I’m not even sure that qualifies as an adventure. Also, I just one-upped his “adventure” like none other. So as a fun little exercise, [...]
Many people have been asking me why I didn’t go out to Wisconsin with the rest of the team. The answer is pretty simple: doing the Birkie just didn’t interest me that much. As a competitive skier in the United States that statement sounds like heresy but it’s just how I felt. I’ll do it [...]
It was sort of tough for me to miss out on racing in the huge field at Trapp’s this past weekend, but I chose instead to do a few more biathlon races while I had the chance. Luckily these ones were just in Jericho, not Minnesota, so I was even able to make it back [...]
Today I only raced 25 kilometers, which is half as far as all of my teammates, so I can’t really pretend to have any great stories. In particular, here is some trivia to describe how un-exciting and un-speedy my race was: my 25K took me more than half as long as Hannah’s 50K, so her [...]
This post is only going to cover the 3rd lap of my race in today’s Craftsbury Marathon. The first two laps went well but weren’t terribly exciting. The 4th lap was exciting in some respects, but only because I bonked half-way up the long hill out on Ruthie’s. (Ollie already wrote a bonking post.) A [...]