Tomorrow (Thursday) is race day. It's my first really big race and I'm pretty excited. I've raced at U-23 World's twice, but that was only U23 people... this is the big time. Since it is big time, I'm trying to act the part and be professional, so here are some things that I'm done doing:

Snowplowing. The first time down some of the hills on the distance courses I must admit I snowplowed. Just a little, but a definite wedge before going around the corner. Sunday, on my long distance ski, I skied all of the downhills and worked up my comfort level so I could go as fast as I please and not have to snowplow. I wouldn't want to have someone fast skiing right behind me and have them see me snowplow. Speaking of fast people...

Giggling whenever I ride in the elevator with Marit Bjoergen, or when I am behind Claudia Kuenzel at the buffet during lunch. I mean, there just normal people who happen to be really really ridiculously fast, so I'm not going to be so twitterpated when I run into them.

Forgetting things. I haven't actually forgotten anything yet, but a goal is to continue not forgetting things. I don't want to be the girl that shows up to a World Championship race with only one boot.

Looking at all of the cameras. There was a little white round robot camera on tracks along the finishing stretch in the dome that was following me when I skied by last night (I was skiing at 6pm and was the only skier out there). It was cute so I'd turn my head to look at it. It was like a little dog following me across the finish line. But from now on, no matter how cool the cameras are, I'm going to ignore them & pretend that I'm used to being videoed from multiple angles while I'm skiing.

Not taking pictures. I'll take more pictures from here on out. Promise. Maybe not Thur & Fri, but by Saturday.