MAKI!

I GOT A NEW BIKE!!!! Its a Trek triple 1.5, super nice. LIME GREEN. And I even got them to customize the handle tape to match :) I walked into the bike shop, and it was the first bike I saw, love at first sight. Before I went to the bike shop, I was struggling to come up with a name for my future bike, but once I saw it Maki popped into my head and it fit perfectly. I dont know why, theres no good reason to call it Maki, maybe I was hungry. But it looks like a Maki right?







So I havent been posting partly because I still dont have internet, partly because of my practice schedule, and partly because im not conscious in my free time. Heres what my day is like now: wake up 545am, eat, skate, dryland, eat, sleep, ice, dryland, eat, go to bed at 830. Yup. Exciting life. Most of the time I dont even choose to take a nap, ill get back from morning practice and suddenly ill wake up and itll be time to go to practice again! On one day last week I was at the Oval for a total 8 hours. I think it was a 9.9 week. Jun rates the volume of each training week, supposedly its on a scale from 1-10 but so far weve seen 6.5-9.9. Mostly 9.9. Why not 10 you ask? I have no idea. My theory is that in korean training philosophy you cant have a 10 week because you can NEVER train hard enough. Cant wait to go back to Rochester for some r&r.

Theres a dietitian at the Oval, Ted. Hes given us all tailored diet plans. According to Jimmy and Jun Im fat and need to stop eating. (lol) Jun put it this way: "you need to find a boyfriend, fall in love, have him break up with you so youll be so upset youll stop eating!" Apparently thats what happens when girls get dumped in korea. So we all had body fat tests done, and to everyones surprise I had the lowest body fat at 14%. You should have seen the looks on Jun and Jimmys faces, haha! It was great. Heres the good part, this is Jimmy accepting the fact that im not fat: "You look fat...but youre not...huh.." HAHA.

Anyway, my diet is set up so I can lose 5 lbs of fat, so when I take the body fat test again the goal is to go down by about 2%. Before I was eating 3000-3500 calories a day, and now im eating 3050-3300, so no big deal. I have to eat low calorie bread, no cheese, no stuffed pasta, lasagna, sugar, more veggies and fruit etc. The good thing is I can drink as much chocolate milk as I want!! O a cool thing I found out from the nutrition analysis is exactly how much milk I drink. I consumed 2957mg of calcium in one day, 7.7 cups, when the recommended amount for me was 3.5c or 1000mg, lol.

Heres some korean food Jimmy made, mmm.


PS I quit my mascot Job, I couldnt take it anymore. lol.

Meteorology Field Study

Im doing a lake breeze field study this summer, and we got thru the first day easy! We set up some weather stations and launched a weather balloon, my first balloon launch ever! Ps I got a job as the mascot for Red Robin...haha...


This is the sounding (data) we got from the launch, the blue line is temp and the red is dew point, they are decreasing with altitude. The wind speed/direction is marked by barbs on the side, wasnt windy at all.










The Kestrel, tells dew point, temp, wind speed, pressure, altitude, and relative humidity!





Hang gliders

Life

So alot has happened since my last post but I dont have internet now so ill smush everything into this post. Here goes:

- I moved out of the dorms into a house with some other skaters and my coach near the oval

My new room, complete with giant leaf canopy courtesy of IKEA. Your jealous.

- I dont have internet
- On my birthday, I went out for korean food and bubbletea! Got a heart rate monitor, an rei gift certificate, and a Sigg filled with dark chocolate and peanut MMs!

Bubbletea!


Korenglish menu..mmm "dumprings"!


- Practice has been a b*tch, im so sore all the time that sitting on the toilet is (again) NOT an option most of the time... itll pay off next season, thats what I tell myself :)
- SCHOOL IS FINALLY OVER.
- Last sunday I climbed Mt Olympus (elev. 9500ft, 4500 ft gain) with Garrett and our friend Rachel. When we reached the top we saw a storm crusin across the valley. We got below the snow line before it hit us, but we were on a rock face and the trail we were on was a stream. Nice. We flew down that Mtn like no other with lightning above our heads, got drenched, but also got some nice pics and a couple videos!






Chillin on the couch rock.



We made Rachel carry all our stuff, shes training to be a mtn guide in CO!


Rain dance!

Massive storm





- Im trying to get a job at Ben & Jerrys
- That job is more important now than ever...because SOMEONE STOLE MY CANNONDALE R600 THIS MORNING. Yes. Someone went into the bike storage room and cut the lock on my bike, and apparently everyone elses too. Im extremely upset, that bike was my baby, I even named it, "B3" (check the old post about b3 with pics). I went and ate a whole container of ben & jerrys. It was the first big thing I ever bought with my own money. Well I paid for half and my parents paid for half as a christmas present, but still alot of money, I pretty much emptied my savings for that bike...Id say what id do to this thief if I ever found out who it was, but my plan is so graphic, violent, twisted, and horrifying id probably get arrested for (you pick..murder/torture/violation of human rights etc)...
- To top off my morning I got locked out of the house after everyone left to go bike riding.



Timpanogos trailhead, still too snowy to climb :(

Backpacking the Canyonlands Natl Park

Yes it was a class (3 days) and yes I got 2 credits for backpacking. Only in Utah. :) It was sick, its just outside of Moab in southern Utah, which is pretty much the world center for rock climbing. I wish I had a digital camera (my birthdays on may 5th hint hint), my phone died before I could get some pics of the hike, but I did manage to get some of the ride through Moab. Actually I did get 2 pictures of the campsite and a desert flower but those pics mysteriously disappeared from my phone....maybe Navajo spirits are responsible...after all that whole area was occupied by at handful of different indian peoples in ancient times, and we passed ancient ruins along the hike that proved it.
Its amazing anyone lived there, it was very desert like and mountainous at the same time, red rock, sand, cacti, big horn sheep, giant rabbits that are the size of goats, cougers. There were 10 people int he class including 3 Navy seals, who were hilarious. They made for some awesome campfire stories. Or flashlight stories since we werent allowed to have fires in the area. It really interesting hearing what really goes on overseas, its like wow, so thats what really happens. Its like the news we get on TV doesnt cover anything.

In part of the hike the 2nd day, the instructors make us hike about 2 miles on our own and set us off in intervals to experience solitude, and wed meet up at a certain location down this river we were following. I got sick of the river and decided to take a short cut through a desert area and look for some lizards, which I found plenty of but had no luck catching. When we all met up again, one of the Navy guys said he found me and was following me for a good 20 minutes to make sure I didnt get attacked by cougers, HAHAH!!! Wow. It was weird I didnt notice he was there at all since it was so quiet. I wouldnt want to be that guys enemy, he could have sniped me if he wanted to. But then again they do that for a living so they should be good at it.
Also I learned a lot about backpacking....like remember to pack everything. Especially sunglasses, contact solution, and a light (which I found out would be nice to have when needing to pee in the middle of the night). All of which I forgot. Also I learned that in a desert, the water will be muddy, and a pump is a better choice over water tablets to purify water, because otherwise the water you drink will be muddy, have debris in it, and taste like a combination dirt, salt, and various animals. Maybe using tablets and a filter would have been a good idea, since cows roamed freely in the area and they liked to leave giant plops everywhere. Including near the water. Lessons learned the hard way.
But it was definitely an awesome trip. We hiked in and out of some canyons, through these amazing rock formations, saw some interesting plants. I even got to eat berries from a juniper tree! They didnt taste good.

Here are the pics I took going through Moab.





Newspaper rock is a 2000 year history of the people who lived there, created in the BC-early AD period. Its cool because there are contributions from all sorts of tribes.









haha! they labeled the hole in the rock...













Here is the muddy water I was drinking, collected from the stream at our campsite. First note the cool biker dude on the bottle. Second, realize that the bottle is translucent. Third, recall how normally you could see through water in a bottle, and here you cant. Made me realize how I take clean drinking water for granted...