December 2012

After Canmore I was supposed to go straight to Europe to get the time change over with well before the tour, but a couple weeks ago I realized that 5 and a half months straight out of a suitcase away from home wasn’t going to be that sweet, so I…

So here’s what’s been going on: the US team here in Canmore has been absolutely throwing down some inspiring and amazing results. It seems like every single race at least one of the 20 or so starters puts up a new personal record. How cool is that? Canmore is a…

I finally got time to sit down and load up a bunch of pictures I’ve taken the past few days…and I realized that there’s a lot going on in a World Cup weekend that the TV doesn’t show you. So, here’s some of the World Cup scene the way I see…

WOW WHAT A WEEKEND!!! It was such a great time here in Quebec City for team USA…and all our friends and family here! Quick note on the fans: YOU. TOTALLY. ROCK. When I saw a bunch of people with glitter and facepaint on, and wearing striped socks….well, that totally made my…

I promise to get up another post tomorrow with a few more details (and hopefully some pictures!), but for now I wanted to post a big THANK YOU to all the friends and family that are here and those sending emails from far away. It was such an incredible day…

I’m kicking off this short update with this awesome cartoon, drawn by the FIS carticature guy Thomas Zipfel: We just arrived in Quebec City, Canada last night after a long day of travel from Ruka, Finland. Whew! But traveling back West is always so much easier on the body than going…

Right now I’m chilling on the couch in Liz, Kikkan and Tara’s cabin, stealing Kikk’s computer to post an update. Tara’s working out knots on Andy, Liz is hammering away at the keyboard next to me, and the room smells like massage lotion, shampoo and bananas. The banana part is…