Getting ready?

Tomorrow Nationals are scheduled to start for me. With it being so cold out that my normal pre-race week prep has needed to be adjusted and the rumor that the distance races might be moved to later in the week if today's sprint doesn't go off as scheduled it feels a little different. Still, the body feels good and I am really ready to get racing again.

The last time I remember feeling this uncertainty was Fairbanks in 2005 for the first races of the Olympic season. It had been way too cold the day before the 20k pursuit and I went to bed not thinking there was a race the next day. We ended up racing even though the temp at Birch Hill never got over -6 F but it was a pretty good day and the start to a really good season. Looking forward to the same.

Hopefully they won't force today's race since the sprinters could really screw up their lungs with such short hard efforts in the extreme cold.