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Working Hard (or Hardly Working)

Posted: Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Today is June 27^th and I am on my way home after being on the road for a whole month. Bryan and I started out our trip with a double pole clinic in Minocqua, WI, hosted by PowerBar athlete Chris Cook, then stayed in Rhinelander a few days, went to Lakeville and Marine, MN, for a CXC training camp, drove to Waukesha for a full week of high school clinics, and finished off with a HUGE clinic at the Iola Winter Sports Center. Now I will be in Marquette for five days before our next training camp starts in Hayward, WI. The plan is to stop in Rhinelander to do the Pow Wow day’s running race and a 4^th of July celebration. You can read about all the clinics that we put on in the past month HERE. The photo’s below are from the CXC Youth Clinic in Marine, MN. Photo’s from Waukesha and Iola clinics are hopefully comming soon.

Although it means a lot of travel, I really do enjoy conducting clinics. I would like to say a big, “Thank you” to all of the people who have helped us to organize clinics and given us a place to stay while we are in the area: Mary and Bob Eloranta, Donna Hoelz, Anne Riendl, Pam and Ken Schoville, Susan Wurzer and George Kraft, Juli Lynch and Chris Ransom, Dave and Lori Landgraf, Linda Cook, and Everett Meyer. These clinics are a great way for us to use our skills to give back to the skiing community and support ourselves as we train and race full time. We would not be able to do it without the organizational help of someone in the area. Thank You!

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Summer time.

Posted: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Well, Summer time has officially landed; at least here in Pewaukee, WI. Currently, it is about 94 degrees Fahrenheit with 75% humidity. Yes, that is VERY hot!

Maria and I are here in town staying with Bob and Mary Eloranta while we conduct high school as well as Master skier clinics this week. We have high school clinics Monday through Friday for 1.5 hours starting at 4 p.m. We also have a Women’s only clinic tonight from 6-8 p.m., and an open Master skier clinic on Thursday from 6-8 p.m. as well. These clinics are a great way to give back to the area that made Maria into the elite skier that she is now. I also enjoy doing the clinics because I spent a Summer down here working at the Bicycle Doctor and this area is great for training and has a really active and generous ski community.

As far as my training and life has gone up until this point, I have been busy working at Farmer Q’s while home in Marquette. I was able to sneak away for two consecutive weekends in May and race my mountain bike back in my hometown of Rhinelander at the RASTA Rally one weekend and the Crystal Lake Classic which is part of the WORS series the next. Both races were really fun thanks to the Rhinelander area for putting on the races, and a big thanks to Wayne Fish who has pretty much single-handedly built all the amazing single track at the Camp Tesomas race venue. I had one of my best mountain bike races at the 22 mile Crystal Lake Classic where I won my first WORS series medals for placing 3rd in the 19-29 age class. I was having a REALLY good race until about two miles left where I blew up big time and lost about ten places overall. I hope to keep the good bike form going this Sunday at the Superior Bike Fest up in Marquette where I will race the 24 mile mountain bike race.

Stay tuned to find out how it goes.

: Doing running drills in Marine, MN at the CXC Youth day camp.

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Samantha Lea Liebsch

Posted: Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Congratulations to Matt and Marybeth Liebsch for having a beautiful, healthy daughter on Tuesday night! It was very exciting to have this going on during our camp.

Samantha Lea Liebsch

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Update

Posted: Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. We are currently unable to post pictures on our website so the blogs are not as exciting and have unfortunately become less frequent. As the 2009/2010 ski season gets underway, we will begin to write posts again, but they may lack photos for a little while.

May was a very enjoyable month. We spent a lot of time in Marquette, training, working, and hanging out with friends. Heather Zimmerman came to visit Marquette and we made a trip out to the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Bryan and I helped Chris Cook conduct a very successful double pole clinic in Minocqua, WI that you can read about HERE.

I spent the first few days of June in Rhinelander for Bryan’s 26^th birthday. Then, Tanya Cook and I drove to Bloomer, WI to spend some time with Emalea Landgraf, my dear friend and roommate in college. We then continued on to Lakeville, MN where we got to babysit my mom’s new French Spaniel puppy Kaya. She was 7 weeks old and 6 pounds when we met her. Now she is 9 weeks and has almost doubled in size. She is absolutely perfect. I also got a chance to catch up with my Aunt Kim and Uncle Bill who live in St. Paul and do some biking with my Dad before CXC Camp #2 started up in Marine, MN.

Currently, I am training in Marine with my CXC teammates. Last week was a pretty large week of training with 2 threshold interval sessions, 1 set of harder intervals, and lots of strength. This week will be more of a recovery week for me, and I am looking forward to doing some swimming in the pool where we are staying and beating the Juniors at volleyball.