Lena at NDS Camp, Loveland CO

Hi from Loveland CO. I am out here in beautiful, snowy Colorado for the NDS TERP camp. Things have gone very well. We started out with 4 days of SL. Despite all the new snow we were able to get good training. The folks at Loveland had done a great job of injecting and all the coaches worked really hard to get the piste in shape every morning. I was really happy about being selected for this camp. There is a great group of girls here and the level of the training has been very high. Since I am a GS/SG skier, SL always presents a challenge. I also had concentrated on GS/SG in October and had not really trained any SL since July! Needless to say I was a little rusty. It was fun to have four days to just run SL. I was really stoked on my improvement form day one to day four. (I was also glad when day four was over and we switched to GS!)

We have had two days of awesome GS training now. The sun came out and the piste was in excellent shape. Day one I was ready to get back to some GS and my skiing/times really showed it. I had a rough day on day two. My skiing was there and I was killing the top when I stuck my arm through a panel. It whipped around and smacked me in the back really hard. Anyone that has done this knows how bad it hurts. I was not going to let that keep me out of the game. I sucked it up and finished the day. After training I took care of my shoulder and now am the proud owner of a good looking bruise. Hey what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. We have two more days in Loveland then I am home for Turkey Day and six feet of new snow that has fallen in Tahoe!!! (STOKED) It will be short a visit though as I will be on a plane for Sunday River on the 29th.

My next blog will be from Sunday River, my new home for the season. I hope everybody's training is going well and your all having fun.

Happy Thanksgiving!

.)) Lena Andrews