what I did...

..."NT" ...do today?
Rachael ( my sis ) and Cam and I where driving over to the West Coast today.. right past Hamner...when me and my big mouth goes.. have you ever bungy jumped?

A short uiey later and we found ourselves at the Hamner thrill seekers kiosk fessing up and paying for 3 bungy jumps.

Those of you who know me know I am terrified of heights.. I've always said I'd never jump off a prefectly good bridge.

So we get up there, Rachael and Cam are super excited and I'm thinking oh crap..

Cam goes first.

I don't! really the pic say's it all.
Rachael is like for gods sake.. my turn!

SUN

I am sitting outside at Seth's place in Boulder, in a tank top, and my arms are getting sun for the first time in at least 10 weeks! It feels so good! We've had a great winter in Gunnison, and its bizarre how we forget that the rest of the country isn't quite as cold..
We 'raced' ( Well Brian did I participated) in the Alley Loop marathon skate ski yesterday. -11 In Gunni in the morning, the snow in CB was cold. Brian waxed us warmer so he had a hard day of it, w/ not much glide.. I don't know that I really noticed. Once I got over being taken down on the early climb... ( chaos skis poles everywhere...) I had a blast. I'm skiing well for me this year. Its largely I think due to the swimming , my upper body doesn't get fatigued. I was 22rd in the womens marathon, 3 hours 12, Brian was 6th in the mens in 2.15.
No pictures.. Brian's reasoning ...too busy racing!
Afterwards we jetted home, ( left the house in a shambles ) and came to Boulder. Brian and Seth are in Eldora racing a 10k snowshoe race. I'm busy stealing Seth's PG tips tea ( cup #3) and Me and Max ran into Settlers park, we both overdressed, Max's nails are long from the snow and not pavement, Max drooled the whole way w/ exciting spring and city smells!
Tomorrow I fly home. .. I'm so excited.. well not really excited at all about the 30hr + flight, long layover in LA, but very excited about seeing my sister, nana, mum and Dad.
I'm taking a bike w/ for my sister and a bike for me to ride , so am testing out a new way of travel. I only have the 2 bike boxes, my clothes are in laundry bags and plastic bags in the boxes, my cycling shoes, running shoes, and helmet are in my carry on. Both boxes come in under 50lbs, Hope it helps and I don't get over charged! Also hope bikes arrive in one piece... athlete tools help as packing/padding.. kick board, yoga mat, pull bouy, tpt block, camel back....

Finally.. Go Katie Compton. The UCI World Champs cyclocross on http://www.universalsports.com/ Marianne Vos won the race, but the deserved respect goes to Katie and Hanka (the German rider) for aggressing the race, You could argue Marianne as being savvy and smart/ you could also argue her as being .. wheel sucking non working.... My respect goes in Katies direction.

SNRGY multisport

I met with Brandyn Roark Gray and Lisa lieb in Ouray earlier this week. To check in and plan for SNRGY multisport the coaching and clinic company Brandyn and I have started. It was great, and exciting. Since then we've been squaring away details, registering a domain for our website ( which to be honest is a bit confusing.. to me.) I signed in yesterday and realised oh crap its full of technical language and details! Then I called in to a bank on Friday and opened an account, again, it was significantly more involved, than expected.

We've started coaching clients and so jazzed about it. I think we have a neat concept going and we agree on many aspects of our business and how we want to work with our clients. Its great. Snrgy.. with the sports, clients, lifestyle, health, performance.

In the meantime my ear has been acting up, the other one. So I have an appointment with the ear nose throat specialist on Tuesday. For a full audio exam etc.. Fingers crossed, It will be great to have it healthy and stable before I fly to NZ.

We raced the Kenny mac 30k skate race in Gunnison this morning. Put on by Gunnison Nordic, $5 entry! WARM!!! so warm I was saturated, by the end in just a base layer and a light jacket. Brian flew and won the men's race. Much to my surprise I skied well for me and was 2nd in the women's race. it was super fun to ski with Sue Demottai and other women I am usually 10 Min's at least behind. Brian bought me a red bull... I never drink these.. might be something to it.

March 13 - 15th is our next XTERRA training Camp in Farmington, NM. Spring will be in the air. Perfect timing for a summer triathlon camp. contact us for more details snrgymultisport@gmail.com

Cosmic Ski Event

Moving right along.. we seem to be in the thick of Brian racing. Me? along for the ride! This past weekend was at the Sunlight ski area in Glenwood springs. I hadn't been there before, its out of the way from Gunnison, as you have to go around the mountains to get there.
It was a super fun weekend, staying downtown ( cheers Ross ), good coffee shops and food and across from the hot springs!
Sunlight ski area was great, our Monarch passes extend there too, so while Brian and Sully pre skied the downhills on Saturday, I made my way around the mountain on the ezy peasy terrain. And it was warm!
Sunday dawned bright and early, and cool 13 degrees, the race started at 8am, so we got up early. Brian was using both his sets of skins in the race so I put on yak traks and grabbed poles to hike up the mtn and watch the first skin up.
Randonee racing is basically like a MTB cross country race on skis with fast gnarly ski downhills, the skiers transition at the bottom, put skins on to climb back up, take skins off at the top to ski down. Super hard and fun and waayyy out of my skiing league! Which is a bummer, maybe in 5 -10 years ??
Anyway, on the first skin up, I cheer everyone on. Where is Brian? off the back I see him and learn later he had ice in a binding and it wouldn't engage. He started maybe 5 mins back after getting it sorted out.
I run down to watch the first transition, Brian Wickenhauser and Max Tamm come flying in in a dead heat basically, Brian comes in maybe 3 mins back in about 10th place, and heads back up the hill for lap two.
I run up to watch the 2nd descent, fully realise how out of my league it is and am now in massive awe of everyone doing it, and envious.. ( guess thats what I get for growing up w/ the ocean out my bedroom window across the street!!)
By the 3rd and final climb and bootpack Brian had caught the front and was hopefully headed for a win. Brian crossed first, then Max and Wick duked it out for 2nd finishing in a basic sprint. Wick is an amazing descender, Max earned the 2nd place.
After the event Brian and I skinned up the last climb. It was amazing. Pete Swenson put a track in through aspens overlooking Sopris MTN, stunning and ridiculously steep and scary! from my pint of view, but so cool, we skinned to the top and took the green run down.


Wick, Max and Brian - top 3

Skin up.

Skins on.

Sully's gear.

Classic ski with Gale at Hartmans.

These icicles looked so pretty we tried eating them, they are too fragile.

cheers

Jen

USAT Winter triathlon National Champion

Brian won the Usat National champs in Bend, OR today. Awesome . Congratulations.

Which also means he's qualified for the US team to go to World Championships in Austria.

Rebecca Dussault also of Gunnison won the womens event.

Pics to come...

Winter Tri Nationals

Brian is off to Bend, OR for the USAT winter tri nationals this morning. Someone say gear? Holy cow.. below is Jc leary's pic of his packing and equipment last year.

This time around he shipped his bike ahead through Gunnison Shipping to Bike and Ski in Bend. A great idea! much cheaper than the $250 It'd cost to fly with and as weight is not an issue with UPS he put his whole bike in the case and some extra bit and pieces to boot. If/when we fly this year we are absolutely going the shipping route.

Me? I thought about going but my motivation was the possible draft Abyss beer ar Deshutes brewery... not really valid enough reason to cancel personal training clients and fly to Bend! So Brian's parents are skiing at Monarch today and I'm car pooling to ride in Salida. First time out of the lounge this year on the bike.. Weather says 42 degree high there... wish me luck. If its really cold.. My alpine stuff is in the car too.. ( never thought I'd say that.. ha ha..) Never say never my friends!

Universalsports.com

www.universalsports.com check it out.. its awesome.. skiing, nordic skiing, cycling, track and field... perfect for trainer time!