New Years In The U.S.A

After leaving the eternal darkness of Finland after the World Cup events in Suomo, we travelled to sunny Park City, Utah to hook up with "Toppa" and our Development team for X-mas and New Years.

(Flying over the snow capped peaks on route to Salt Lake City)

Toppa and Patto took Sammy and myself under their wings and allowed us to join in with their teams training up at the Utah Olympic Park.

(Training at the UOP, Photo: Patto)

(Gymnastics Training, Photo: Patto)

It was another quiet X-mas away from home and our families. But there were a lot of familiar faces floating around Park City, so we still managed to get into the festivities. 

Sammy and I joined the development guys for some bowling, only to teach them a lesson or two.

(Bowling in my home-made jeans moments before they ripped to shreds)

Utah, experiencing another below average snow season provided little training opportunity for us, so we took a road trip to Steamboat Springs, Colorado for a weeks training over New Years. With a full length course set up from the U.S Olympic Trials, the training was super great. Fresh, soft colorado powder blanketed the course each night, which meant skiing was easy and with little to no impact on our bodies.

(Steamboat Springs)

From Steamboat it was back to Park City and then onto Calgary, Alberta for the next stop on the World Cup.

Details in the next post.

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