Opening Ceremonies

Opening Ceremonies are tonight and I've decided to stay here in Park City. It was not an easy decision but I felt that it was the best thing I could do to be ready to rip on Feb. 21st.

The training has been good here in Park City and I feel like I'm in a great spot right now physically and mentally.

Jake

Olympian!!!

Nine days until the much anticipated opening ceremonies. Unfortunately I will not be able to attend them due to pre Olympic training and I don't think it's the best thing for my back right now. I will however be watching on TV and try to get as much as I can out of the experience.

The whole Olympic thing is pretty exciting right now. I've been overloaded with emails of support and dealing with all the processing that Olympians have to deal with that the public doesn't realize we have to deal with. Although it's just another ski race in our minds because it is the pinnacle of sport the drug testers want us to give updates and whereabouts 24 hrs a day so they can test us whenever and wherever. I don't mind doing this as long as my competition is getting the same treatment.

As far as my pre Olympic training goes Park City has set up the 2002 Olympic GS race hill for us with water injected snow so that is will be as close to the race surface as possible. This is a big advantage and I'm sure it will show in our result come race day. We also have the US Ski Team's brand new Center Of Excellence that we will be doing all of our conditioning at. I'm pretty happy to be here in Park City training before the big event.

I'm a little scatter brained right now my apologies for the short few and far between blog entries.

Thanks for your support and please stay tuned.

If you miss the Truth In Motion Movie it will re-air this Saturday on USA network 3pm Mt. time or it is on Itune for a free download.

Jake