Bend Recap

The Sun Valley ski team enjoyed a great on-snow ski camp the beginning of June in Bend, Oregon. This video and blog is long past due, but I wanted to post in anyway. I hope you enjoy!

Doing What I Love Most!

After 2 months of minimal running due to an achilles injury, I am back to doing what I love most...running in the mountains! This past week, I accomplished four runs without any pain, one of which was 3 1/2 hours! I'm excited to be back on my feet, especially during this summer season of training. I am surrounded by several great trails in the Sun Valley area and after living here for two years, I still don't know half of them.

Here is a clip of my Over-distance run yesterday, up Champion Creek in the Sawtooth Valley with Colin Rodgers. The video doesn't do the scenery I witnessed justice, but I thought I'd post it anyway. You will notice that most of the run, is through burnt trees. There was a forest fire 3 summers ago in the area. Forest fires are fairly common in the late summer and as we experienced last summer, they make training really difficult when they are in your area.

Enjoy!

Field Trip to the Ice Caves!

Last week was the first week of summer camp at the YMCA! Just to give you an idea of the amount of fun we had on our field trip, check out the video. We traveled an hour and a half, by bus, with 20 ten-year-old kids, to visit the Planetarium. On our way back to Sun Valley, we stopped at the infamous ice caves. Check it out! We had a great time!