I'm writing this from Planica, Slovenia, but I just spend the weekend competing in Lake Placid, NY. We flew over the pond Monday for one last summer-jumping camp before the season. It was great to be back in LP after two years away. With some "retirees" from the years-past who came out of the woodworks and strapped on skis, it was one of the bigger fields we've had in a while. Sunday, we had small hill jumping and nordic combined US Nationals. I was pretty happy with my NC jump - which put in a solid 4th place to start the race. I didn’t have it in me that day to hang with Brett, Bryan and Taylor as they skied by, but I kept a steady pace to hang on to 6th. Bill Demong started in 3rd, blew by Todd Lodwick and Aleck Gantick and held off the Fletcher brothers to take the win – his 9th National title. All in all a solid and fun weekend in LP, but right back to travel on Monday. Upon arrival to Munich on Tuesday morning, our team split ways – the A-team to Bischofschofen, Austria, and the B-team to Planica. We’re here until Saturday, when we’ll meet up with the rest of the guys in Oberstdorf, Germany. Our team here should be a blast, training in a killer venue and with the NTG crew from Steamboat (aka our younger teammates). We didn't waste any time getting after it: right off the plane, to Planica, then into the mountains on a killer rollerski. A big thanks to the National Nordic Foundation for making this trip possible - both for us B-teamers and the National Training Group guys. This is an extremely important pre-season camp - and we're really grateful that the NNF is supportive of it. Right now, we have less than a month left in our all important Drive for 25 campaign. Thank you to all who have already donated - but if not, please check out our page and consider a small donation here to show your support. We have a matching grant of up to $25,000, so if you donate now your contribution will be immediately doubled! Thanks for reading, more to come! Hopefully when we get home it'll look like it did at the beginning of the month in PC...
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