Today was even better than yesterday. I got up a little earlier and got on the slopes at 9 and skied until noon. The sun was out and the snow was as good as ever. My ankle was slowly feeling better, which is why I skied a little longer than yesterday. Even though I skied longer, I didn't get lite headed today, which means I am getting used to the altitude. I did a little research about the altitude and found out that at my condo, there is 70% of oxygen here then there is in Erie or Washington DC. That makes me feel a little better when I am completely out of breath after walking up two flights of stairs.
Today was a little more crowded, which wasn't bad, because I met more people on the chairlifts. On back to back chairlifts I meant the following people.
Chairlift 1: I met two people who moved out from Killington to Breckenridge and are living in a motorhome. A father and son were also on the lift. They had just moved from somewhere in New Jersey to Breckenridge. Since they moved out here in the middle of the school year, the son is being home schooled for the rest of the year. So, he just snowboards with his dad every morning, then gets home schooled in the afternoon. They are renting a house on 4 O'Clock run, so it definitely seemed like they had a ton of money. Those houses there are huge.
Chairlift 2: Met two guys in their late twenties from England. They flew in yesterday. This was their first time in America ever. It was a lot of fun talking to them, since I had just been over there for a wedding last year.
Chairlift 3: There were 5 older people from Pittsburgh. I talked to them about Seven Springs, then I found out that they actually have family in both Erie and Edinboro. Wow, small world.
Chairlift 4: A couple of older guys from Georgia/South Carolina. I found out that one of their daughters is a third year at UVA.
It's amazing who you meet on chairlifts.
Lastly, I bought an app for my phone to keep track of my runs and stats while I am out here. As you can see on the right, I ski around 13,000 feet of vertical today. Hopefully, I will be able to start doing 20,000 days when I am back to 100%. The total miles that I skied was 15.9 miles and the fastest I went was 46.9 mph. I found some great groomers. I think one of them I will be able to beat my personal record I set last year at Jackson Hole of 71 mph. I don't think I can get up 90 mph, but hopefully I will be able to crack 80 mph.
I'm going to ski tomorrow, but take the weekend off. It will be more crowded and the people I live with won't be doing groomers. It will be too tempting to follow them. I will probably end up spending Saturday night in Denver and meet up with Dan.
And don't worry. The only reason these blog posts are so long is just because I am only skiing 3 hours a day. Soon, I will be posting two sentence posts.
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