Last week we had the Northern State cc team from Aberdeen SD. Great group of kids and coach. In addition to running, they played basketball, volleyball with a medicine ball, hit up the Three Bears golf course for some speed golf and lots of swimming. Keeping active the whole day which is awesome. Hoping in the future to have a week of running camps like we do the ski camps in December. The Nature Conservancy was also here at the same time for a retreat and good to see some of the participants hit up the trails in their free time for running and mountain biking.
Over the weekend we had a wedding for a skier from DL that I coached back when he was in high school. Da Giff. In addition to regular training, we did a bunch of "fun" skiing that more high school skiers should do. The JibSkates came out his Sr year I think and we put them to the test proper.
Giff's best man was "Zigs" another skier and mountain biker I trained with during his high school days. Also far left was Danny Johnson, the first skier I worked with. All these guys skied at college and doing great post college.
The biggest wedding drama was the couple that had followed their navigational system from Bemidji and ended up on the Rat Lake trail. Came to a puddle and decided to go for it. Didn't make it through and water up coming up to the seat levels. Got grandma out safely and eventually to Maplelag after tow truck came and took car to DL. I talked to Bruce Adelsman about the flaws with navigation systems for rural areas and he was telling me about a trail system he built and had on google but they contract these map builders from India and they took it off and put something else on that was totally off. Living in Norway and getting in to orienteering I got in to maps. When I go to a new trail system though, I like to just bike and ski than look at the map afterwards. Jonell's brother and dad scored a nice aerial of the lake cabin above that was the only map I had to reference when I first started exploring around there and until they came out with snowmobile maps and now everything has changed.
Also over the weekend, Jon had his final hockey tourney of the summer. I snuck down for the early games on Friday and he stayed with the Brace family the rest of the weekend, like he did last weekend. Huge, huge thanks to them. The team is a very nice team but they just couldn't get any lucky bounces and hitting a ton of pipes to advance out of pool play. Jon had some nice games and ended up being the leading scorer for the team. This last tourney was probably the best competition wise and just crazy the programs the twin cities kids are involved with. A few years ago I had no idea the extent of these AAA teams, not knowing which team was what. After this summer, talking to parents on other teams, got things sorted out and just glad to be living where we do and Jon planning on staying at DL all the way through. Jon has been working hard on his shot shooting pucks almost daily up to 2 hours a time.
Coming home from the cities, saw these guys hanging up high.
Last time I saw guys hanging up high was in Puerta Vallarta MX. Except they weren't holding up traffic for 20 miles, no helmets or harnesses and no orange cones.
Sunday late afternoon after the weekend wound down, went up to the lake cabin for the evening for maybe one last pontoon ride, a sweet ride in the am in the White Earth state forest capping off 24 hours of restoration before gearing up for the big Loppet weekend. Everything is looking great on the course and what not and looking forward to a awesome weekend. Thanks to everyone is supporting the event.
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