Back in Wenatchee Torin Koos won the Ridge to River multi-sport race this morning. Sigh, someday I'll make it back for that. It's a fun race-- cross country ski, alpine ski, run, road bike, kayak, portage.

Back here in Anchorage was a gorgeous saturday also though. I volunteered at a free ski clinic at Hilltop hosted by the Alaska Winter Olympian Foundation and the Alaska chapter of Allergy, Asthma Foundation of America. I had expected to be waddling around with a group of penguin-like snow suits but since Ellis & I were the only leaders on classic skis we rock-paper-scissored to see who got the little tykes and who got the remainder of the classic skiers. I drew the older skiers. The only other people on classic skis were Rachelle Kanady, Cole Talbot & Eric Packer. These people are good skiers and are headed off to illustrious NCAA skiing careers at UAA, UVM & Dartmouth, respectively (& they all had top 5 finishes at JOs last month). So it wasn't exactly herding penguins which was fine because it meant that I actually got to ski too.

AND it's a beautiful day here with 5minutes and 43seconds of daylight gained today to give us 14hrs and 30minutes of sun.