Sunday, May 25, 2014

Mail Time

The United States Postal Service has made many stops at the Halligan house this past week. First was the much anticipated arrival of my new stock! After breaking my stock during the individual at Junior Worlds this past winter, I put in an order to Timo Antilla. After a few months of talking back and forth about fitting and delivery the new stock finally found its way to my door step.
New stock in action at SBC

New Stock



A few days later the mail man found his way to my house again. This time to deliver my new business cards. I decided to get business cards because I found a lot of people asking me multiple times how to follow my career. I would tell them how they could follow me, then, next time I see them they'd ask again because they  forgot. 

card design

Card in real life

my whole life I've always wondered if I'd be able to keep up with the Peloton in a big bike race like the Tour De France. well I can now officially say I cannot. Here is how I came to this conclusion. On Tuesday last week I decided to go to the Blue Sky Bike Shop Tuesday Night Ride. There were about 25-30 people who came out that night for the ride. our plan was to ride around Saratoga Lake then head out towards the next town over then ride right back. Over all it would be about a 40-45 mile (64-72 km) ride. It started off pretty easy but we were moving at a pretty fast pace. But 25 miles in (40 km), we got out of town and the pace picked up really fast and before I knew it, I dropped off the back and was alone in the middle of nowhere. Luckily I knew where I was going and completed the ride on my own. I also took a little different rout home and ended up with 52 miles (83 km).  In all fairness though my bike is a few hundred dollars and the next cheapest one was probably over a grand. oh well.

SONG OF THE WEEK!

We're all in this together-- Sam Roberts Band

Plus some pics, Thanks for visiting


Me driving a golf cart at 5:30 AM 
Bunker at 5:30 AM

Cart path at 5:30 AM

Golf course at 5:30 AM




Sunday, May 18, 2014

The Rotary Stars are Aligning

It has been a while since I made a blog post. It’s not because I haven’t been doing anything, I’ve just been doing the same stuff since I last posted. I’m still working at Glens Falls Country Club. The only difference is I now have a partner in crime. Ex-section Nordic skiing champ and longtime friend, Will “the Rotary Machine” Frielinghaus. Together with the help of Tim “21” Messina, we have been able to mow around all the tees, up and down all the road sides, and clean up all the grass near the clubhouse at record pace. Working with Will is also very entertaining, the amount of jokes and laughs shared throughout the day makes the 8 hours go by pretty fast.  Some memorable quotes off the top of my head: “it’s like getting paid to train” in reference to running as fast as you can with a lawn mower. “I’m a geology minor” after throwing at least 100 rocks at a bigger rock trying to get them to break in half. “I’m getting a laser for my townhouse next year” this line comes up at least 5 times a day for no reason at all in reference to absolutely nothing. This is Will’s last week at GFCC before he moves out to Wisconsin for summer training. Unfortunately I was unable to race will this past winter but these two weeks of working with him was a great time and it was good to catch up.

On the training side of life, I have only been training twice every three days. However, thanks to the amount of running, raking and tamping I’ve been doing at work, I feel like I’m in pretty good shape. I’ve been doing mostly bike riding, 30, 40 and 50 milers. Hopefully I’ll pop a really long one in there before the summers over. I’ve also been joining team HURT for their Monday night rollerskis. Most of my training this past week has been with Will (wow I just realized I've been hanging out with Will a lot)

At the end of the month I’ll be heading back up to Maine to start the summer training season. It’s too bad because I’ve been home for a month and all my friends are finally coming home from college, right as I leave. Oh well.

I’ve mead a few updates to my blog. I have added a “Friends Blog’s” page where I will list my teammate’s blogs, competitor’s blogs and general biathlon blogs/websites. So if you want to read up on how they’re doing you can easily find their information here. Also I will be starting a new feature on my blog SONG OF THE WEEK! Song of the week is just to sum up my mood/feeling of that week, also to spread some good music to the world. This week’s song of the week is “Better Run” by the Royal Bangs. The music video is a little “interesting” but aren't all music videos? Sorry there weren't any pictures this week, so here's one of the gang that terrorizes the neighborhood: The Catricalligans 

"Better Run" the Royal Bangs