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Friday, January 23, 2009

my new favorite canadian team is...

I'm loving Canada. Aside from the occasional dire warning ("Most people wash their hands for 5 seconds... another 15 seconds could save their lives." --poster on one of the Callaghan bathroom doors) it's a pretty friendly place. Down at the Black Jack Ski Club ski trails it was even sunny today.

I met John Jaques of the Rocky Mountain Racers on the trails this morning. John agreed to help me with waxing for the races. This is a huge help because I have no race wax and even less waxing knowledge. John started to tell us about how we needed to check out which sides of the course had the fastest snow so we knew which lines to ski during the race. "woah," I interjected, "you can't be telling us this stuff... your real athletes are going to get mad at you for giving away secrets." To which John replied, "I don't care, once we're taking care of you, we want you to win." Which is the most beautiful sentence you can hear from an adopted coach.

2 Comments:

Blogger Scott said...

""I don't care, once we're taking care of you, we want you to win." Which is the most beautiful sentence you can hear from an adopted coach."

As opposed to words I heard from a coach while racing in Norway:
"It's not going very well, is it?"

:-)

January 26, 2009 12:15 PM  
Blogger LAV said...

ouch. that's harsh when they actually point that out.

January 27, 2009 7:08 AM  

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