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