October in Austria! Lena in Stubai

Hello from Stubai Austria!

Woke up this morning to with snow on the trees to the valley floor! I have been in Stubai for almost three weeks and this is the first snow I've seen! Just finished up a 10 day camp and all we had was blue skies! I have never been on the glaciers in October and had 10 straight days of blue skies! It was awesome...but now it looks like I'll have to pay a little!!!

The first part of our camp went awesome. It was a GS and Super G camp. We had incredible snow conditions and were able to get so much accomplished. We had so much volume in a short time, over 1,000 GS gates and 450 Super G Gates, plus drill runs! I am so spent right now. These next few days off snow will be good.

Today we are going into Italy to sample some of the food (CHEESE!!!) and then are back on snow on the 18th. The glaciers of both Austria and Switzerland are incredible and October is always a special time, you get a chance to see and ski with National Teams from around the world. When you get the chance to come, TAKE IT!!!

I am in Stubai for another week then off to Soelden for the World Cup!!!

.)) Lena Andrews

First report from Central

Hey SRD, I’m new to the team and not exactly sure what to do with this blog and all, but what I have read in the past blogs is that I basically write about what happened during the summer or over a certain amount of time. For me, this is kinda cool to have like a second team, with a whole bunch of new teammates that share my same interests.

Over the summer I was able to go up north with my friend and go wake boarding. Although…. It was like the coldest water I have ever been in and it was pouring cold drops of rain for the first day. We still had the best time ever learning new tricks. I’m not that great of a wake boarder but that doesn’t stop me from being stupid in my sports. I basically tried to do a back roll (like a back flip) but it failed and I landed right on my face on the freezing cold water. That was the last wakeboarding for me on that trip, my face was stinging and my hands were already blistered from holding the rope.

When I got back from up north, I jumped into my fall dry land training and started my freshman football season. Our record so far is 6-1. We have one game left in our season so I’m hoping to help make our record 7-1 which is a realistic goal for our team. My dry land all led up to the physical assessment test I just had which I did decent in but I really think I could of done better, so I’m doing another one in Norway, Michigan in early November.

I hope I get to meet everyone at some point during the season.

.)) Colin Vogel