October done

This coming week starts with a little down time after two solid weeks of skiing since I got back from Utah. The skiing has been sweet up at Hatcher's. Cold hard tracks, surprisingly clear skies, and no one but APU up there during the week. The driving up there to train every day gets a little old but having the quality of skiing we have up there now makes it well worth it. 

So the training has been going really well, and the ski testing has gone even better. We also had two time trial up there this week, one distance and one sprint. Going steady and smooth I won the long one. I did 15k and the rest of the guys all being sprinters did 10k and my 10k split was ahead of their 10k race times and I managed to hold the same pace for the next 5k. I ended up 2nd in the sprint to Jeff Ellis who nipped me at the line in all 3 rounds, but the rest of the guys were all a bit back (we had some way faster skis than them). There is a pretty good chance that the sprint TT will be my only sprint of the season so it was good to beat up on most of the sprinters.