Flight into Minneapolis, overnight with Marybeth at the Liebsch's, drive up to Houghton/Hancock. And now I'm here, at the venue of Senior Nationals, ready to race this week, and it is 10:30pm, 33 degrees fahrenheit, been raining all day and supposed to "snow" tonight. It's not looking good and the race organizers have had to put a lot of work into trying to get the trails in shape for us. Check out the race website for the latest updates at seniornationals.org.

It feels like so long since I've raced last and I'm getting really psyched to get to race again. And we get to race everyone, most of the college teams are here and all the serious senior racers. I cannot wait! And I got to see all of my teammates again (except Andre, who arrives on Tuesday). It's good to be back with the team; I've missed them. We went out to dinner at The Library tonight and it was fun to have the whole group together to laugh over stories from break.