Bill's MWC Posting and Haiku

Haiku #1

Idaho tall snow
World master ski real fast
Hot tub big reward.


Today was our well-deserved rest day.


Our group is wonderful in many ways, but we need to invite a support crew next time like the Europeans have. We spoke with the German physical/massage therapist today, nice guy by the name of Renna. They also have a coach. I think we need a cook. Somebody who could help us with our suppers: Saturday, pasta with Prego; Sunday, cereal with bananas*; Monday, scrambled eggs with tortillas; Tuesday, pasta with Prego again.

*Please note: we did have a giant burrito lunch at 3pm.

We’ve been so busy setting up camp, waxing, and racing that it feels good to have a day off to just knock around. Just for kicks and to get more fresh air, we’ve been taking daily runs of 20 – 30 minutes. Very little traffic and lots of options for sideroads etc.


10 Things We Don’t Want to Forget
1. Our van driver is Brian, but he has more close friends than just us
2. Everyone in the hot tub is jealous of Bill’s two-tone wind-brief swimsuit
3. Odd and Bjorn will speak to each other in Norwegian, the rest of us love to listen
4. John drives like he skis downhills – with reckless abandon
5. We’re on our 3rd 12-pack: Fat Tire, Mirror Pond, and now Henri Weinhard’s Hefe Weizen
6. Will is going to produce his National Champion chili tomorrow and we hope to post the recipe on our blog
7. We’re all a little concerned about going back to work and reality next week but nobody has mentioned it.
8. UBP = upper body power which most of us feel like we’re lacking and have high hopes of rectifying once and for all this year
9. Two new vocab words:
Chevron = special term used casually in the most serious ski circles to refer to a slant or angle that a rilling tool can make on the bottom side of your skis in a desperate attempt to make them work in soggy conditions.
Trimp = a training impulse (this is a brand new word to the English language that we’re excited about and should be used infrequently and pronounced carefully)
10. We’re already laying plans to stay with Eric Hedman’s Great Grandpa’s sister-in-law’s Godmother’s great grandcousin twice removed for the 2010 World Masters in Falun, Sweden.
11. Despite a history of run-ins with the TSA, Bill is going to try to bring home an almost-full bottle of concentrated All (scent and dye free) laundry detergent rather than jettison it here in Idaho.
12. We know St. Anthony is the patron saint of lost stuff, but can’t remember who covers ambulances en route to an accident.

My Secret Oatmeal Ritual (not to be leaked to the Italians)
a. One cup of dry, steel cut oats per two people
b.2.5 cups of water
c. Bring to a boil while chopping things to toss in like raisins or other dried fruits, apple bits, FC8 if you have it
d. Reduce heat and keep stirring with right hand, get bowls and spoons out with left
e. Shoot for that gloppy, goey matrix that makes it tolerable

Side note: Don’t leave the brown sugar out overnight since it does not behave like white sugar.