Off the Couch...

...and up north I go!  

I've been feeling pretty down the last couple weeks due to my lack of activity.  Due to family commitments and work over the last couple weeks my skiing has been limited to the weekends.  We have a ton of snow and great local grooming and I have been forced to do a few bike trainer rides during the week :(  It will be nice when the kiddies  are a little bigger and I can drag them along for a ski :)

another awesome photo from www.teamtoday.org

Anyway...teammate Yvon emailed me today and asked it I wanted to head north for the Hanson Hills classic race Sunday.  I've been going back and forth for the last 2 weeks about it, so I asked the "boss" and she gave me clearance to race the next couple weekends.  So with very little fitness I will head for the hurt locker over the next couple weekends...for fun!  My main goal is to just get out and score a few points for the team and enjoy some "man-time" with the boyz.

So their...I'm committed over the next 2 weekends to do a classic race and a skating sprint race.  I won't reach my goal to do 5 races this year...but I will have at least 2 plus the relays at the end of the season.  Improvement over last year for sure, when I did zero races.

So get up off that couch and get up north for some XC ski racing!!  You'll be back in time for the big game...