First off, it seems travel went well. Lots of surface wiping and not a lot of time without the mask (had to eat and drink unfortunately) made us feel pretty safe. Hopefully the test after 72 hours will confirm this.
PPE outfit goes hard. Big fan of the face shield telling everyone what it is.
Logan doing his wiping
JC about ready to take the mask off after 30-ish hours with it on. And first time seeing the wax truck!
The travel day was tiring enough that we were able to sleep through the whole first night, which set us up beautifully for the next day. We went on a boys run around the ski mountain. Lots of cool trails and cabins around here!
They said the trails weren’t ready to ski so we ran on them for a bit. Sorry groomers.
RukaVillage*
Spin biking with a glimpse of the ski jump. Big lights!
First night dinner…putting the hot sauce to use!
Getting psyched to ski after watching the groomer set up the track
+ a beautiful morning
and great skiing
Lots of poles. Organized though!
To give some context to these pictures, our team policy is to basically limit outdoor maskless interaction to men’s and women’s teams, with indoor interaction only with roommates. JC is my roommate so we’re around each other, but when around people not in training we’re wearing masks. Just in case one person tests positive, the team can sort of limit who has to quarantine. Hopefully we don’t have to deal with that but there’s always a risk. And cooking/eating is done in our rooms too, so not actually very much team interaction. It’s definitely a little bit of a bummer to be involved in this World Cup team and not get to really hang out, but it’s worth it to be able to race again! And we have a kitchen in our room to chef up some good lunches. Today was ramen, bow tie noodles yesterday, toasted sandwiches the day before.
Mask locked and loaded
balcony view with the race course down low
The boys skiing in some new snow
Also the skiing is super good! They rolled out man made snow on our second day, and new snow fell on the 3rd day to make it even better. The courses have some steep ups and downs, and some cruising flats in between. I’m excited to start skiing them fast with some intervals Tuesday, and racing starting Friday! Before then, I’m just working with my wax tech Karel to figure out lots of new skis. Next post might be before racing if enough cool pictures get taken.