The End of Team Trials

After the race, we sat around for a couple hours while the coaches did the math, added up points, broke ties with speedpoints, and figured out the final ranks. Then one by one were called upstairs to select our races. We raced at 5pm, finished at 7:00, and finally left at...dun dun dun...10pm!

Afterwards, we were all too tired to go out so we congregated at the townhouse most of the team was renting. Good bonding and relaxing times ensued.

Chilling out around the table, with lots of non-athlete appropriate food such as cupcakes, brownies, chips and dip, frosty beverages, and so on:


Brad chasing me with the camera and trying to get me to look at it:


He thought he succeeded:


Hee hee.

Girls gone wild - Sabrina and I decided to try on Tracey's hair:


Tracey and Sabrina making fun of doubles luge:


And then four of us decided to try quadruple luge - I'm on top, poor Sabrina is on the bottom, and I was SURE the bench was going to collapse:


And so ends the 2008 Team Trials. Part of me is relieved since my body and mind need a break and the last 3 weeks were pretty battering and intense. Most of me, though, is sad, since now all the teams, WC, ICC, EC, AC will go our separate ways and we probably won't all be together again until the fall of 2009 for the next Trials. And, with changes in peoples' lives and goals and training, it's likely that the roster may not hold everyone that was here this year.