Self Discovery

More things I've learned about myself this past season. 

10)  You'll never know you have fast skis unless you ski fast.

9)  The wax kicks.  It is you who doesn't.

8)  If you condense your 700 hours a year of training into six months then you'll be skiing fast at the start of the season. (spread the other 400 over the race season)

7)  Never believe an elite skier when he says you can doublepole the whole course.  No.  HE can doublepole the whole course.

6)  At the end of the season nobody cares how you did at Mora, at the Loppet, the Noque, or the Pepsi.  They care only about how you did at the Birkie.

5)  Congratulations on succesfully avoiding overtraining for yet another season.  This must be a record!

4)  No matter what the conditions you will never have the perfect wax/structure/ski combination.

3)  Despite what your friends say, they derive some small satisfaction in having beaten you - same goes for me.

 2)  (8) is really not about me.  I trained maybe 300 hours last year.


And the best of all...

1)  For a child, 34th place at the Olympics is cause for celebration.  Thanks Garrett.