Hello out there from Denver International. We have begun our trek around the globe to get to New Zealand, and have ticked off a few hours to get to Denver. Here, we'll wait until we can catch our flight to LAX, and then our 13.5 hour journey to Auckland. During our flight this morning, I … Continue reading Last Practice in Princeton
Support the USA LM8+
If you haven't already, go ahead and support the 2010 USA LM8+. They are a great group of guys, and are going to be responsible for paying their own way to the World Championships in New Zealand this year. That's several thousand dollars per athlete... from athletes that do not receive direct athlete support from … Continue reading Support the USA LM8+
News from the Other Side
Selection for 2010 has come to an end and we are through to the other side of the Naming Date. As of this afternoon, I have been nominated to the 2010 World Championship Team for a seat in the W4X. Congratulations to all of my teammates who survived the onslaught of 1500m pieces over the … Continue reading News from the Other Side
Back to the Drawing Board
Well, once again I've taken a day after my final to think things over, and figure out how to best approach a blog re-cap. There are a lot of things that I want to include in this blog, and not all of them are appropriate, rational, or kind. But what I do include here today … Continue reading Back to the Drawing Board
Two Down, One to Go
After waiting around the hotel for a few days, we finally got to stretch our legs and get back to work during this afternoon's semifinal. We had an excellent draw, which allowed us to line up next to the other medalists from Lucerne (Poland and Bulgaria) whose lineups have also remained unchanged, in order to … Continue reading Two Down, One to Go
Race Day #1
Where does all the time go? All I did was race today, and still it's 9:30 p.m. and the blog I wanted to write hasn't yet written itself... damn. Ok, so we raced our heat today. It wasn't great, it wasn't terrible, it was a solid, fairly consistent effort that got us out of it … Continue reading Race Day #1
Megan Kalmoe, OLY 