Quarantine

After a solid camp in Utah, most of us came straight to Craftsbury but I made a stop to visit my alma mater in Denver.  There I reconnected with my old ski team, met the new members, and spent a lot of quality time with my lady friend.

Unfortunately when I returned to Vermont, I caught a mild cold. Living in close quarters with the GRP team, we have a strictly enforced policy of moving into “quarantine” as soon as we sense the slightest feeling of a sore throat.  This ensures that we don’t have a bug going around the team all winter.  So despite taking an easy week the previous week, I took another 4 days off in this little room in one of the dormitories at the COC.

The upside of this distressing situation (West Yellowstone is less than 3 weeks away, I need to train!) Is the room was nice and warm with fast wifi.  I took advantage of this wifi by getting some good FaceTime chats in with my family and crushing the first three seasons of the TV show “Breaking Bad.”

I was distraught to hear that the team went skiing while I was holed up, but now I’m back to full health and ready to attack training.

As my mustache starts to curl over my upper lip, I know that the end of November and with it race season is approaching fast.  Tomorrow I am finally going to ski for the first time this season near Stowe, so it’s time for the final push!