Today's race was on a 2.5km loop, men did 6 laps, women did 4, because it was the only loop with enough snow to set tracks on. Sigh, my dad said he was up skiing (in WA) with 10' of snow today. Yeah, that was a foot mark NOT inches.

So the first part of the course was a lollipop out up a hill, around, and back down the other side of the trail. Kristina Owen (MTU) started about two minutes ahead of me so when I started I passed her coming down the hill as I was going up. It was a beautiful cold sunny day, and I wanted to drop my split times each lap so I was starting out pretty chill. So when I saw Stina coming towards me I really wanted to give her a "yo, whassup?" salute, but I reminded myself that I was racing and should not be chatting with my fellow racers, so I just gave her a big grin & she smiled at me from her tuck.

And then after the race she said something along the lines of: It was a good race, especially after you smiled at me and that reminded me that this was supposed to be FUN.

tear. that makes it all worthwhile.

And we both even raced well while having fun. Stina was 8th or 9th and I was 2nd behind Weier. It was fun to have short laps because there were other racers around all the time to try to catch and people all over the course cheering.

(note on a previous blog: 3.14=pi... but I hope you all already knew that!)