Two races down, six more to go. The international season started this past week for me in Lillehammer, Norway. New destination, new track, new start record. It appears the only thing that wasn’t new was the lutefisk. Alright, so I didn’t really try lutefisk. (Sorry Grandpa. I hear it’s amazing here.) This was probably one of the most trying weeks for me in my skeleton career. I’ve had up and down performances but never...
So I was going to wait to debut this at the Lillehammer race but since almost all my teammates and a good number of people on other teams have seen it already I thought I’d better let you all. This new paint job is courtesy of Hillary Werth. She’s a rookie push athlete on our WC bobsled team and a very talented artist. Some of my teammates had their sleds painted by her this summer and fall and they turned out amazing. I was kicking...
So I’m going to start by apologizing for the lack of entry and the run around to get here. If you found this post you can tell it isn’t my site as usual. A few days ago when I was working on a new blog post and update to my site I noticed just how slow my computer was running. I got the idea of backing up everything up and doing a full format of my hard drive and starting over. Well, as you can tell I didn’t back everything up. When I...
Wakeup, eat, workout, eat, rinse, sports med, nap, eat, relax, sleep, repeat. That has been my summer. By no means is this a complaint. In fact, this has probably been the best summer training since I started. I wish I had stories of exciting backcountry camping trips or wild parties but there are none. I have been to tired to do anything. The most exciting, and devastating, time occurred about three weeks ago now when Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene moved...
So I’ve been pretty busy since the last update. Let’s see… May finished up a little crazy. I spent the last days at home living in a tractor, the shop, a construction zone, and the gym. We were fighting to get the crop into wet fields in between the rain showers. I was able to spend one of the days burning all the corn stubble off a field. Except it feeling like an impossible battle I was able to define the term “farmers tan.” There...
Hell would be if God were to show me things I could have accomplished if only I had believed in myself
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U.S. Team Trials |
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| 10/22/2011 | Team Trials Race #1 | Lake Placid, NY | 4/19 |
| 10/23/2011 | Team Trials Race #2 | Lake Placid, NY | 4/19 |
| 10/27/2011 | Team Trials Race #3 | Lake Placid, NY | 4/19 |
| 10/28/2011 | Team Trials Race #4 | Lake Placid, NY | 3/18 |
| Overall Finish | U.S.A. | 4/19 |
As a kid growing up on a farm in rural North Dakota, I always loved competing and spent most of my time playing football, track, and golf. My success as a sprinter took me to the United States Naval Academy and then to Minnesota State Moorhead where I completed my degree in economics.
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