The 2008 US Olympic Trials were held April 25th through the 27th at the US National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, NC. The race decided the US National Slalom Team for this Olympic year, and was a major stepping stone in the Olympic qualification process. After three days of racing, the 2008 US National Team is [...]
Olympic Trials
I am happy I won today. I love my mom and dad.
Tennis
Olympic Team Trials begins Friday, April 25th. Today is my last day off before the race. I rode my bike to the center in the morning but resisted getting on the water. Instead I sat on the bank and watched the training and then rode home again. In the afternoon I played tennis with Aga. [...]
Springtime.
I can’t believe that in Colorado it’s still snowing!
Today we had our first thunderstorm at night. I woke up around 3:00 AM, it was raining on me through the window. At six, when I woke up for real, it had cleared up and I took Billie Sweetheart running. At the end of Hawfield, a pomeranian [...]
Springtime?
Today was the desperate last stand of winter. I walked to the river in the early morning. The wind was in my face as I paddled upstream, and my hands were cold, but it was clear that the weather would be unable to hold out for much longer. The bleak sky was somehow not fully [...]
Full lengths
I have been demanding lots of full-length workouts for the past month or so, and it seems that this meso cycle, Smolen has finally taken my whining to heart: we’re doing fulls at least three times a week. I had some time errors today, but one run that was quite fast.
Dickerson Qualifier
Today is Monday, cold and rainy, and I am back in Charlotte after yet another race weekend, this time in Washington, DC for the Dickerson Qualifier. The race went quite well and I won, despite several time errors and 3 touches on my first run. The second run was clean, and I had a good [...]
