Dana’s
recap of a memorable week:
Well, since no
one has posted in awhile, I felt I should try to update our SLU ski fans and
fams. We’ve been quite busy! Hopefully
you are following us on Facebook, and Instagram! Also, I apologize if anything appears out of the ordinary as I am new to posting an actual blog on here.
The trip began the
morning of Saturday, November 21 at 9am, all packed up in the van, trailer and
our new “bus”, the transit.
The drive was uneventful, unless you consider all the weird, strange, and often disgusted
looks, but perhaps we’ll just say they were jealous looks.., and conversations
we received every time we stepped out of the vans in our red onesies for a bathroom stop.
Overheard:
“Mommy, why are
they dressed like that?
“They are
dressed like Santa”
Unfortunately,
when we arrived, we did not see the expected white winter wonderland as we did
last year.
We unloaded in a
timely fashion and if anyone looked out the windows of their houses, they were
sure to see an interesting sight…an assembly of workers all dressed in red suits.
We stayed in the
same house as last year, with the same spacious room and a large garage for
storing skis and waxing; the girls stayed downstairs and the boys
upstairs. The coaches stayed in the
neighboring house.
We went for a
run as it started to get dark, scavenging for a trail that the captains had
been on in previous years; to my surprise, we found it. The guys got their traditional haircuts, and
we finished the night waxing and preparing for the first day of skiing!
We put in a lot
of training and luckily none of it was rollerskiing, although we did bring all
of our rollerski gear just in case. We
ended up skiing everyday, except for the day we arrived and the day we left. A little TRX and strength training were mixed
in after skiing occasionally.
Top Karting!
Thanksgiving, we
skied in the morning and cooked all afternoon.
We sure missed Barb Frielinghaus’s cooking this year and the extra time
she used, so we could relax. It makes us
very grateful to our parents and how much work Thanksgiving and dinners in
general take! However, I’d say that we
all did an awesome job working together to prepare healthy meals and have food
on the dinner table.
The large dining room gave us room to gather for a wonderful Thanksgiving meal! PC: Liz P
On
Saturday, we had the skate ski time trial with the other college teams. The weather turned out to be really nice. We woke up around 5am and left at 6:15 for an
8am race. Foret closed the loop to the
public until 9:30, which was very nice of them to do for us and made the time
trial much more enjoyable! I think
everyone on our team endured the course very well, given that we were all
pretty tired from a long week. It was a
good way to get a fast workout in and also dust the cobwebs out for the real
races to come. I heard a lot of enthusiasm
and “that was so much of fun!” We all
cheered for each other, and the atmosphere felt very similar to a carnival race. In the afternoon, we skied for about an hour
and half more. That evening we headed
back into Quebec City and watched the Crashed Ice Competition hosted by
RedBull: http://www.redbullcrashedice.com/event/quebec-city-0
The event was awesome to watch
up-close. The crowd was enormous and it
was quite an experience to be a part of.
However, many of us did not anticipate how cold it was. It was much colder than the first night in
the city!! Luckily, we warmed up with a
quick stop to McDonalds where most of us bought chocolat chauds! Thank goodness for Micky D’s ….
Left: The crashed course preview- two nights before the competition Right: Crashed Ice course up close!
Here
is a fun summary of the week and maybe it will leave you with suspense of some
stories to be told:
20 hour training
week
19 servings of
burnt oatmeal (Thanks Liz)
18 times Henry
asked where his phone was
17 teammates in
onesies
16 place Erin P
got in the 5k race
15 bags of milk
used
14 loafs of
bread eaten
13 seconds ranch
dressing was poured into Rubens mouth
12 place Phil got
in the 7.5 race
11 teams on
course (mwsc, usa biat., uvm, umpi, slu, bat, col, bow, lav, mid, smc)
10 minutes of
top karting time for each group
9 days total
8 boxes of
energy bars attacked
7 pies consumed
6 vans of
different teams klistered
5 haircuts given
(Blaine, Calvin, Dustin, Ruben, India)
4 people in a
cooking group
3 captains
2.5k manmade ski
loop
2 coaches, 2
vans, 2 turkeys, 2 houses, 2 nights in Quebec City
1 week in
Stoneham Canada =
Priceless
Thanks to Etown,
Liz and the captains for putting the camp together and for driving us around
all week! Good job team! Practices are now
back to rollerskiing and running…do your snow dances! We're finishing up our last week of classes and then a week of finals
before winter break! We hope to see you at Craftsbury for the first Eastern
Cup!
