Is it too soon to be excited about snow? Regardless, the team is beginning to anticipate real skiing as the air begins to cool, the mountains exchange their mid-fall, fiery colors for a uniform grey, and everyone signs up for their USSA licenses.
This past week included mostly lighter training, but we still got outside and had some quality workouts, including a bounding session in the team’s favorite Vermont town, Woodford! The trails of Prospect Mountain were looking wide, steep and ready for a coating of snow. After bounding up the centerpiece of the new course, Andy’s climb —> the Tunnel, we confirmed that our race trails really are the most difficult on the EISA circuit. But, to quote the haiku written by our dear president, Adam Falk, “we are hardy Ephs,” so we already love them.
We also had a productive goal-setting meeting, which took place in the slightly cramped and hot wrestling room. In addition to establishing ambitious — but achievable —goals and expectations, the whole team decided to be nicer to Perry. Perry was very helpful during the meeting, writing out the notes on the whiteboard, but I was surprised and slightly disappointed that he never once in the entire meeting told us to “lock it up!” Has he moved on from this mysterious directive of last year? Will he find a new one to take its place?
In the spirit of being nicer to Perry, we found a snake on the side of the road (we at first thought it was a Rattler, but it was later identified as a juvenile, non-venomous Milk snake) and decided it would look good as an ornament on Perry’s van. See documentary pictures:
Jordan and Luke are very ferocious. They're not quite ferocious enough, however, to touch the snake with their bare hands. Jordan Fields: "Dude, I've never seen a Rattle snake in Vermont before, but they totally have them here!"
Luke gives Perry a present. I don't think the snake lasted very long up there.
First year Braden Becker learns his lesson: lock your bike, or it'll end up stolen ... or lodged in a tree.
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