It was a wonderful weekend with fun races, we know you all LOVED racing hard, taking off your skis, running across the road, putting them back on and then racing hard again! I'm sure it will be the highlight of your college career!
However, it seems that we had our annual issue with sleeping and waking up. Due to the fact that there are upwards of 20 athletes and coaches at almost every race we do and we love each other so much and want to be in the same cabin there is always a potential for conflict with sleeping schedules and habits. Some of you are night owls and love to stay up late, some of you are early risers and want to get a start on the day, some of you are just tired and want to go to bed early and get up late and some of you just want to pull the blankets over your head and hope the world goes away. It is easy to see why there might be some conflict when there are 24 people with at least 20 different schedules and habits. You can add to this schedule problem the fact that many weekends there are a minimum of 3 different groups who need to do things at 3 different times: Coaches, Men and Women. When the men and women race at different times there are always problems.
OK so we've established that the small conflict this weekend was normal and inevitable so what do we do? Due to our extreme ages and experience with traveling and living with a huge variety people from noisy girls to obnoxious boys, norwegians, germans and swedes, coaches who thought everyone should get up early and go for a run if they had too much time and coaches who didn't sleep at all we have a few words of wisdom. Due to our position as coaches these words of wisdom can be looked on as mandates. While it is our team motto to treat everyone with respect, here is the most important mandate when it comes to sleep and rest, take care of and worry about yourself first! If you like to get 10 hours of sleep and can't sleep with lights bring something to cover your eyes. If you are easily (or even not easily) woken and don't want to be, bring ear plugs.
The bottom line here is that in one house with 24 people everyone can be as quiet as they can possibly be and someone will still be woken. Spend your energy purchasing ear plugs and not being mad and you will be happier and well rested and so will everyone else. In fact with a little forethought on your part you can become part of the sunshine club with Marie and Gwynn.
This concludes Volume I of Issues with Tissues, please stay tuned for more updates throughout the season.
Christi, Rachel & Ashley
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