Bellingham Quad Blog

Post #19

Bellingham, Washington - My teammates, coach, and I have started a new blog chronicling our adventures leading up to U.S. Trials at the end of September and, if we win that, the World Championships in early November. Between the five of us, we are attempting to update it DAILY so I'm sending you over to that blog site for updates over the next couple of months.

You can find it HERE. (http://bellinghamquad.blogspot.com)

Hope you enjoy the overload of pictures/video/information!

Hiking in the Northwest

Post #18

Bellingham, Washington - Though the ITA athletes are taking a break from our normal two-week blog posts, I couldn't help but post these pictures. It has been a great couple of weeks and my team out here has hiked two mountains. Hiking is a really fun way to get away from the water and rowing machine and do some cross training. The views were amazing!

Hiking up Church Mountain

Church Mountain Summit! Mt. Baker in the background.

Hiking up Mt. Baker

All four of us with the Mt. Baker glacier in the background. It was so cloudy when we hiked...

...but beautiful when we got back down. Here's the view from the bottom.

On the Road Again...Again

Post #17

Bellingham, Washington - Yes, it really is the time of year when I travel a lot! I was at a training camp in Oklahoma City for ten days before going back home to Madison. I had two solid weeks of training in the single in Madison before I packed up my apartment, put it all in a U-Haul truck, and moved out. The next day (yesterday), I was flying over the snow-capped mountains of Washington before landing in Seattle. I'll be spending the next few months in Bellingham, a city about an hour and a half north of Seattle. It was sad to say goodbye to my cute apartment, great friends, and amazing community in Madison, but I am excited about being here. I am going to be training with two women who have already been named to the U.S. National team in the lightweight double for this year's World Championships in New Zealand. After trials in September, I'll know whether I'll be joining them on that trip. Bellingham is a gorgeous place to live and train and I feel really lucky to be here. Considering I grew up doing lots of hiking and romping in the mountains, it's great to be around them after being in the Midwest for such a long time! After settling in and getting over my jet lag, I look forward to starting an ITA project with the youth in the area.