So the weather in AK has been phenomenal. I finally am realizing why people rave about summers in Alaska. This also means that my computer has become my least favorite toy because there is NO WAY I want to be sitting inside when life is this beautiful. Since it's a medium-off week I'm going to go explore the Alaskan countryside until Sunday. When it starts raining again I'll get more serious about my blogging again. deal.

If you're in the Anchorage area and interested in a running race:

Arctic Valley Trail Run
10:00 am Sunday July 26 2009

A 6 km loop climbing and descending
approximately 1500', over the ridges
and trails of Arctic Valley. Juniors may
run a 3k loop with approximately
800' of vertical Short timed munchkin run.
9km Elite race begins at 11:00 am
Elite Race $35
Adults $35
Juniors*, 16 and under $15
Munchkins*, 11 and under $5
For more information:
http://ae.uaa.alaska.edu/volz/trailrun
or
Karl Volz volz@aeff.uaa.alaska.edu

Sign up online !

Entry fee include a
race t shirt to first 50 registrants . Register online or day of race.

Pete Kling coming up through the Williwaw Lakes.

Then Pete decide that he wanted to jump in a lake.

Of course I couldn't let him jump in without doing it also so when he started taking off his shoes I did the same. Pete dove in and then I executed one of my clumsiest dives in a long time... even mid-dive I wasn't convinced I really wanted to hurl myself into the lake. It was cold but quite refreshing. And the sun was out so we warmed up quickly as soon as we got out of the water.

Pete Kling post swim.

I got lost. I got hungry. I ran and ran. (and hiked) It was awesome.

Labels: alaska, photos

Today is a day for scheming. I'm so full of various schemes today, there's no time for blogging. Some days are for dreaming and some are for action. It's a dreaming day.

While we're all down enjoying some alaskan sunshine Erik & Casey are up on Eagle Glacier digging into the bowels of the Pisten Bully, looking like they're in blackface because they're covered in so much diesel. As one of our teammates said this morning, we're lucky Erik knows a thing or two about wrenching otherwise glacier camps would have been much more primitive. A coach's job is wide-ranging and time-consuming.

Labels: eagle glacier, photos

The most notable thing since coming off the glacier has been the number of rollerskiers out and about. I don't think a day has gone by this week without seeing rollerskiers. Iwas even out for a run in Kincaid and at one spot where the trail came close to the road I could here the click, click, click of rollerski poles through the trees. And every day I've been out rollerskiing at Kincaid there's been herds of skiers (mostly because the APU jrs or WinterStars athletes have been training there about the time I'm out). It is so uplifting to have so many people out doing the same thing I'm doing, it's like riding a rollerskiing wave of popularity.

Again, I've posted a lot of photos up on my In The Arena site, but it takes so long to upload all the photos I'm just going to link you there.

click here to see photos from our glacier week.

Labels: eagle glacier