The second week of camp at Lake Placid was a massive week. We hammered out a ton of distance as well as getting after it with intervals. Since, the week was so big and hard on me I decided to treat myself towards the end of the week. After a good hard double pole interval session on Saturday morning I jumped in an epic soccer game that afternoon. Every team was mixed on the two teams with players from CXC, NENSA, Sun Valley, and the U.S. Ski Team taking part. I entered when the team I joined was already down 3-0 and we managed to get back to 3-3 before the game stalemated at 4-4. We all decided that instead of prolonging the game another hour and a half we would have a shoot-out, hockey style. This meant that we put the goals up, that were about the size of a hockey goal, and it was one on one with the shooter dribbling in on the goalie. My team’s goalie was none other than Maria and she was tough. The other team’s goalie was Igor, our high performance adviser who was working with the NENSA group. The shoot-out lasted through at least six shooters per team before Gus managed to squeak the ball past Maria and their team took the win. I should mention that Gus scored barefoot and is unfortunately undergoing surgery on his shins due to compartment syndrome. He will surely be missed these next couple months as he rehabs for a comeback later in the season.
Enter Packer Sunday. I should mention that my brother Chris is a master at finding Bars that will show the Packer game when he is on the road, which is quite a bit. We found that the Station Street Bar and Grill had NFL Sunday Ticket so Maria, Gus, Chris, and I headed there after our Sunday OD of double poling and running. We saddled up at the Bar and enjoyed some awesome burgers, fries, chicken wings, and Sam Adam’s Oktoberfest. Everything went well except for the fact that the Packers could not overcome all of their nagging injuries and lost to Atlanta. We thought that Gus was just bad luck but he left at half time and was replaced by Garrott, an avid Packer fan himself, but to no avail. We are now 2-3 but I feel a comeback coming soon.
Hanging out with Gus is always fun. We will miss him while he recovers.