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In the past few days I've gotten two free wristbands, personalized at that.  Unfortunately, I received the from the ER at the hospital. It was anything but an ideal Birkie weekend for me.  For starters, the weather arrived a little late, in time to drive home in though of course.  Second, the Korte and anything but the Elites in ...

There are two things that make no sense to me. First off, the weather.  How can it be that it is freezing cold for the longest time, and then, right at the moment when you don't want it to get to warm... it does.  Of course, I am referring to the Birkie.  Let's hope that it can endure a day or two more of warm temperatures before ...

Nowhere else can it snow this much when it is this cold.  Nowhere. Temperatures have been in the negatives since Saturday, and we've still been skiing.  Thanks to hose frigid temperatures and lots and lots of new snow, the trails are in good shape, but extremely slow.  It reminds me of when I was a little kid and you have to ...

This past week has been mostly a recovery week for me, trying to get all my strength back before the races in Telemark this past weekend.  With exception to the one interval hill workout, everything was pretty low key.  With that said, I was still a little worn down heading into the races this past weekend at Telemark. We traveled on ...

First off, I should wish everyone a Happy New Year, although that seems a bit overdue now.  Along with the fact that not much was worth reporting over my Christmas break, since everyone pretty much can imagine the circumstances in Green Bay at the time, I've been pretty busy of late with school and adjusting to a new semester. A Little ...

It has been anything but a typical December week here in Houghton.  Snow is scarce, and the snow we've found has been anything but good.  Coming off a fun weekend of racing, skiing this past week has not been fun.  It rained earlier in the week as temperatures barely dropped below freezing, causing our trails to be closed so as to ...

This weekend started out the 2006-07 race season, and for me it went pretty well.  Since the races this weekend were qualifying races for the Midwest Junior Olympic team, they were basically warm up races for me since I am trying to make the Great Lakes Junior Olympic team.  Nevertheless, I gave it my all at the races in Ironwood this ...

It's finally snowed here, and oddly enough Milwaukee and Chicago seemed to even have beaten us to be the first to have good snow.  Even though it has looked as if we were in a snow globe for the past couple days, the Tech trails are still not great.  Skiing today was still rock skiing, and earlier this week we skied when most people ...

This past week I was able to come home to Green Bay for a couple days, although calling Green Bay home is almost funny now since most of the time I actually refer to Houghton as home.  When I arrived back at school tonight and I asked one of my teammates how their ride home was, they figured I was talking about their drive back to ...