Breezing into Fall

It is officially Fall. The goal sheets have been turned in, School is in full swing and racers are making their final approach into the season. With that comes, yes, physical testing. We all learn just how far we have to go before the season starts and we realize that lying by the pool all summer did not make us stronger.

School has started and for me that means that I have moved back down to Salt Lake City and have started my Junior year. Rowmark has started up too—with us taking our annual Rowmark trip—this year we went river rafting down the Green River in Southern Utah. The trip was relaxing and fun—I learned how to stand up paddleboard and even went down some rapids on one. We also are back to the gym, physical testing and lifting weights.

We now have a four-day weekend and we leave next week (snow providing) for Loveland for our first fall camp! Yes Fall is here and it is time to use all of the conditioning that we did in the Spring and Summer to really build up to the season.

Yes, the season—it does have a nice ring to it. Racers are getting ready for camps—our post-graduates left last week to train a little at Mt. Hood—and after that we I am going to jump (literally, I am going to a Beaver Creek camp right before my first race) into the season. So racers dust off your skis (assuming that they have even arrived), get down to the gym, and get psyched for the season—that is what I am doing.

.)) Breezy Johnson