Another epic summer in the books!

     It feels like it was just yesterday that we all said goodbye and left to have our own epic summers. However, I have had some fun adventures while I’ve been away! As soon as I got home, I went down to southern Utah in Bryce Canyon with one of my friends Emily (freshman on the SLU team this year!!!) and we did some long runs, watercolored, went to the rodeo, and found an awesome rope swing into the reservoir.

Then in a rough turn of events, I got my wisdom teeth out and was super hangry for a couple of days while I couldn’t eat much.

But I recovered and had some calm summer days training and working and finding any sort of cold water I could. I trained with Soldier Hollow’s new PG group and it was pretty interesting. The coach told us that we couldn’t drink water and we did intervals every single day for 3 weeks. But then she toned it down and it was really fun to be back with some college kids and girls I skied in high school with!

I worked in a physical therapy office in town at the front desk. I learned so much about insurance and how to interface with patients and insurance companies and the billing people. But when it was quiet up front, which it was most of the time, I went back with the physical therapists and shadowed them. The owner, Cara, took me under her wing and I got to see all sorts of interesting things such as taking care of women postpartum, concussion management, and of course, post-surgery rehab.

A highlight of the summer was definitely going down to Salt Lake to go swing dancing. It seems maybe a little funky to go swing dancing with all the BYU boys, but there were these random dudes that were professional swing dancers that came up to me and offered to teach me lifts. In a not creepy way - they were very nice. And so I fulfilled everybody’s dream of doing the Dirty Dancing Lift!!!!!!!!!!! (this picture isn’t it, but it's another cool one)

Then, I got to go up to Idaho and see LUCI! We had a wonderful long weekend and did an epic peak called Devil’s Bedstead West. It was gorgeous and so much fun! We had some nice river days, a little rollerski, and just spent time in Sun Valley together!

I took a quick trip up to Jackson with my mom and did a nice little peak before coming back to Park City. I went to Indiana to visit the grandparents and it was luckily a corn year. Corn years are so much better than soy years. Then, Chip got to my house! He had driven across the country in his cute little red truck and we spent time in Utah doing all the fun mountain things before driving back out East. We took 6 days and went to see Chloe in MN, saw Lake Michigan and Erie, and New York City! We then picked Chloe and our friend Henry (on XC running) up and went up to New Hampshire to (attempt) the Presi. It wasn’t good enough weather, but it was super fun to see everyone and camp together! 

Now, I’m back on campus doing Woolf leader training and am so, so, so psyched to see you all again!!! Much love to everyone and I can’t wait for hugs very soon!