Jessie

I hope I say often enough just how much I LOVE my job, and how lucky I feel! The past week of training was hard work, of course, but anytime “going to work” means getting dressed up in spandex and skiing on a glacier for 5 hours, you know life…

This first week of camp in Alaska has been beautiful, fun, adventurous…and a lot of great training! Almost every day has included a running workout where we pick a new mountain, big or small, and go climb it! Or, we’ll do a fun running loop to a super cold lake…

As I traveled to Alaska for our second US Ski Team camp of the summer, I spent quite a bit of my time in airplanes and hanging out in airports. It occurred to me that I might write a letter to tell the airport exactly how I feel about it….

In training you get a bunch of highs and lows. Sometimes it’s on purpose – you plan to have a big week with a lot of intensity or hours (or both, yikes!) and then you have a smaller week to let your body recover and absorb all that training. Sometimes…

Last week was such an adventure for me, and I was very honored and excited to accept an invitation to train with the girls widely known as the best Cross Country skiers in the world! I think it’s really awesome when people who are at the top of their profession,…

You know those wonderfully sappy, motivational sports movies that most people secretly (or openly) love? How the band of heroes creates a team, struggles together through tough training and ultimately wins the day? I got to experience a moment stolen right out of one of those movies during our time…

It’s been a long, long time since I’ve slept in the same house for longer than 2.5 weeks! This feel so weird to me. But it’s also incredibly nice to get settled in to the house so generously loaned out to us SMS team athletes for the summer. I actually…

That was an outstanding training camp. It was nice to return to Bend after a year with low snow, and what a treat to get enough snow left to crust ski! It was a tough camp, though. I’ll be honest…it was a lot of training, and there’s a fine line…

The return to snow has been a pretty wonderful thing for me. After the initial 10 minutes of awkward stumbling around and getting used to being on long skinny skis instead of roller skis again, everything felt great! Our first US Ski Team camp of the year in Bend, Oregon…

Well, it’s that time of year again…spring break is over, folks! Last Monday marked the first day of the new training season for me and I’m pumped to say I was ready for it. I got a lot of great family time and adventure time and boyfriend-in-Boston time, so I…