Zen and the Art of Speedskating

Most blogs are just words, but photoblogs are becoming more and more popular. I try to blend the best of both here. Some people come here for my words, some just for the pictures. Both have their place.

Its an easy week of training (a good thing, last week was pretty hard) and a good chunk of the high 5 team took a nice long hike up to the mountains. I am really not sure where we were (boris? what trail did we take) but it was gorgeous. Hiking with a bunch of high level athletes, at 10,000 feet, while not being quite used to the altitude, is sooo much fun!!! So, Lots of pictures result, as my brain was definately oxygen starved.

The view looking up

The view looking back, Salt Lake city is very faintly visible, 5,000 feet below & many miles beyond

Kim doing yoga,

Boris in a Boris moment, I think he was saying something like “lets keep going up”

I could not resist the chance to make a snow angel in late june, and no, I am not mugging for the camera, I am howling because this was a VERY COLD result to a spontaneous impulse.

but I am not as much of a sensation-seeker as Eva, she leaped into the snowpack fed lake. We could hear her voice constrict as all her muscles siezed in the ice cold water. She is quite the Kamikaze-beatnik-mosh-girrrrl, After she thawed out, we had a conversation that that she wrote about in her blog.

After the 4 hours on the trail, this was soooooo nice on my tired feet, it was so cold, I could not stand more than 20-30 seconds at a time. If you ever wonder why I have to use custom speedskating boots, you can blame my high arch, very visible in this photo.

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