Our team for the Ski2Sea race this year did amazingly well! We improved last year’s time by almost 30 min, and everybody seemed to enjoy their legs! Richard started off with the fastest ever time for the Alpine leg (tough run up a ski run followed by “some” skiing!), after which I took over for […]
It’s that time of the semester again: exams! It feels like I have been sitting and watching students for weeks now … Oh wait, I have 🙂 Between my own exams and invigilating for coworkers, I have spent quite a few hours in the classrooms in the last two weeks. Today is the last one,
Our new team uniform has arrived! James from Snap Okanagan (a local newspaper) is sponsoring a triathlon team this year – and I’m lucky to be a part of it! We just received the (sponsored) kit … loving the fabrics, the color, the new gear! Thanks James!
The trip to Mt. Baldy last weekend turned into a major snow-shoveling adventure: 3 feet of snow had falling in the 5 days prior, and everything, including staircases, parking bays and patios, was covered in A LOT of snow! After the work was done, we enjoyed some great xc ski and snowshoe outings … tiring
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Just got back on Sunday night from another wonderful weekend in Winthrop! The snow conditions are great at the moment, and we got to ski lots! On Friday and then again on Sunday, we took Kootenai and two “loaner” dogs to Big Valley. The dogs just love getting out and running on this dog-friendly trail.
To break up the routine, we skied from Sovereign Lake to Silver Star (and back) last Saturday. With lots of energy from a good breakfast together, we tackled the (cold but sunny) ski with lots of smiles. It involved a chair lift ride, some “portages” in Silver Star village, and a nice lunch at Paradise
The snow conditions are still fantastic and I’m hoping it will stay that way for a bit longer! We had another great ski at Nordic Ski Area yesterday, with the core group and with lots of smiles and chats. It was warm and bright! By the way, Mona makes us pose “funny” in those pictures
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Did you watch the Superbowl on Sunday? Without much interest in the game itself, I really enjoyed watching the (expensive) commercials during the breaks. My favorite is the Volkswagen – Star Wars clip (on YouTube). I couldn’t help but posting it here on the blog as I think it is a fine example of advertising
When we started the xc ski season in November, we decided to make it our goal to ski all trails at the Nordic Ski Area this season. Yesterday, we accomplished that goal on a beautifully sunny day! We had three more trails to “cross off the list” and all of them were black trails so
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What a fabulous weekend we had in Rossland (8 of us went)! The drive over was a bit snowy but that just meant that we had lots of snow to play with! We xc skied at Black Jack on Friday – nice to check out new trails and see where world class athletes train. On