We skied this morning in Japan! the trails were amazing, lot's of snow and hills, huge hills, steep hills, gradual hills. I love hills. We were skiing reeeaaalllyy slowly so they weren't as exciting as they could have been.

Last night Vordenberg picked up Compton, Justin Wadsworth and I from the Sapporo airport. We only got a little bit lost on the drive to Asahikawa and made it up to our rooms by midnight. Passed out immediately and woke up at 8 to have some morning testing done (lactate, HR, oxygen saturation, hemogloben, glucose) before breakfast. We're staying with part of the World Champ Team (some are off racing WC's in China) at a nice Western-style hotel, The Asahikawa Palace Hotel. The plan is to train and acclimate here before moving up to the World Champ venue in Sapporo on the 17th.

Now we're off to meander around Asahikawa!