We had a brand new workout today-- L5 intervals up Potter Valley Road. I thought it was great. There's not much that can beat skiing hard uphill.

I imagine Erik and Dylan sitting around in the office puzzling out the best workout for us to do each day. Actually, I imagine them in some kind of shady pub smoking cigars with their best poker faces plotting the best training regime for us while the other patrons go about pursuing their puerile interests. Which doesn't make any sense because I know what the APU office looks like, neither Erik nor Dylan uses any form of tobacco, and Holly or Casey would probably be around too. Regardless of what I know the facts are there's something kind of sly about the way Erik & Dylan observe us during our training. I feel like they're building a dossier of information on me and my skiing. They don't reveal all they know but they have a "I know more than you do" kind of expression which makes me feel a little bit like a puppet. But you know what, I don't mind having a puppet master looking down on me from the heights of wisdom and guiding my training. It's also reassuring when our workouts change every now and then, it confirms my suspicions that Erik & Dylan are sitting at some back table analyzing how we currently ski and train and bouncing ideas off each other about how we could be skiing and training better.