Several people have asked me what I do all day. They start out the question a little hesitantly, as if trying to decide how to ask without risk of offending me or appearing not to support my decision to spend my time and energy on becoming a better skier. Which, really, in the grand scheme of saving the world doesn't seem to be the most straightforward strategy. So here's my yesterday through now.

8:30 Wake up. Since it's a light day of training after our triathlon on Saturday, Brian and I decide to sleep in. First thing in the morning we pull the freshly made bread from the bread machine and have a thick slice with yoghurt butter and creamed honey. I made this bread and added oatmeal and quinoa to the dough and some of the quinoa emerged on the crust to form light yellow polka dots. I like it.
9:30 Breakfast. Brian decides today is a good day for pancakes and makes them. We have breakfast on the screened-in porch.
10:00 Brian Gregg, Garrott Kuzzy and I live at Cresthill Resort which is run by Scott & Kay Wilson, who are great people and wonderful supporters of cross country skiing but Kuzzy is out on the East Coast so it's just Brian and I this week. Scott stops by when we're finishing breakfast and says he thinks that one of our appliances is interferring with the TV reception. We experiment and figure out that it's Brian's computer.
11:30 Brian and I walk down to the beach and I swim before joining him out on the floating dock to stretch and do yoga. We compete to see who can balance on one leg the longest on the rocking dock, I lose. I take another short swim before going in.
1:00 After my swim I come in and Brian has made a salad for lunch. Kay stopped by and gave us cucumbers and tomatoes from a friend's garden and so we get cherry tomatoes in our salad. We get so involved with our Gjetost brown goat cheese on the quinoa bread that we almost burn the granola that Brian made and put in the oven before lunch. At some point I read about a third of "Raising the Bar, the story of clif bar."
3:00 Brian and I pack bags and rollerski about 2 hours over to Seeley where our weight room is and lift weights before showering at our coach's house, also in Seeley, and getting picked up by Scott and Kay to go to Dennis Kruse's house for dinner. During the ski/weights we only speak Spanish.
7:00 Yuri Gusev and Irene are staying at Dennis' house so we all enjoy dinner together and spend a long evening out on the back porch around the table. Yuri brought me a box of Candinas truffles which I have secreted away for future review.
10:30 Bed time. But Brian and I are meeting Dennis, Yuri, & Irene to go waterskiing tomorrow, our day off.
7:30am Wake up.
8:30 I just took the cranberry scones out of the oven and am wondering if I should wait for Brian to wake up for breakfast. Decide not to...