After over 7 months

    July 16, 2012

    It’s July – something that is not lost on me. The last time I updated my website was a long time ago – over seven months back when I was battling through the Tour de Ski – an event that is so close to my heart it might as well be my skiing’s equivalent of a mitral valve.

     I’d love to make the excuse that I was deep in the Himalaya climbing bad ass peaks for months and months on end solo, in true alpine-style, rocking a huge beard, all sinewy and the only form of communication I've been able to do is performing charades with Tibetans -but you all know that to be untrue. I was most certainly “in civilization” continuing to race on the World Cup circuit for months, living out of the duffel, training and racing hard as our Canadian team followed along in the caravan of FIS's Nordic “white circus.”...