Tubing and the Intercontinental Cup!

Most people wonder what my 'day' is like. The weekdays are filled with working out, sliding, sled work, and physical maintenance (icing, stretching, etc). The weekends, well, they're pretty low-key.

BUT, not anymore! ... or, at least, I've added a bit of excitement to the weekend saga.

Saturday, I no longer became JUST a substitute teacher (which, has been a bit slow), but also picked up a job at the Tubing Slopes! Where else can you get paid to ride down a hill on a tube (to pack the snow of course, certainly not for 'fun'...) So Thursdays through Sundays I will be joining a few of my skeleton friends- Adam, Derek, Greg, and Kristina on the tubing slopes! I'm now an Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) employee... like many of the locals up here.


Umm...packing down the snow before we opened the slopes - me, Derek, Adam & the rest of the work crew

Before Christmas, Lake Placid held the skeleton/bob World Cup. Many sliders were past Olympians, and are ranked highest among their countries.

This week, the Intercontinental Cup came to town! The athletes that compete in this circuit are still sliding at an extremely high level, but are often their respective country's 4th-6th (or so) ranked sliders.



I drove fellow athletes to training at the track, but wasn't training myself... got a little bored...

The Intercontinental Cup has been affectionately called the 'fun' circuit, and it shows, as many of the athletes from other countries have exchanged hellos and smiles and quick chats with me. Which, is pretty different than the World Cup athletes. I hope in a few years to perhaps be blessed and lucky enough to get a chance to race with such wonderful people!

On wednesday morning I'll be forerunning for the ICC, and then driving to 2.5 hours to Montreal to pick up my friends who were competing in the America's Cup circuit in Calgary, Canada! A Busy, but fun week!