Hope Everyone is doing well!!!  

 I have been busy busy as a bee! I flew to Mt Hood, Oregon for the day to do a photo shoot for Nike.  It was a lot of fun and there were lots of nice people there to make me look fabulous!!  They will be posting some video and stuff on nike.com so I will let you know when that goes up!!!

So speaking of Mt Hood, my teammates are having a fund raiser soon so if anyone is in the Mt Hood area or wants to have a lot of fun with lots of ski team athletes you should definitely check it out!   this is what is going down!!! I hear the athletes are going to be Erik Schlopy, Steven Nyman, Scott Macartney, Tim Jitloff, Leanne Smith, Laurenne Ross,  and Keely Kelleher.

Clinics- Saturday, July 18-Sunday, July 19 at Palmer Glacier/Timberline/Mt. Hood
- Tentative Schedule: 
6:15-7:15AM:  Registration, Check-in, Breakfast,  Athlete Meet & Greet
8:00AM: Meet on top of Palmer at our designated lane to break up into groups
11:00-11:30AM:  Break for Lunch
- Autograph session on Saturday (after lunch, for one hour)
- Breakfast and lunch provided on both days

           
Dinner/Auction- Saturday, July 18 at the Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland
- Address: 1849 SW Salmon St, Portland, OR 97207
- Doors open at 5:00PM, Silent Auction/Cocktails until 7:15PM, Dinner at 7:30PM
- Wine/beer and dinner provided
- Attire: Black Tie and Blue Jeans

Also for all the details go the website.  http://www.worldcupdreams.org/ 

I gotta run for now!!! literally! I'm starting to ramp up the training and getting to my 8 hour days!!! The hardest part is eating enough...  but don't worry I am still having fun! Tonight is an Eddie Vedder concert!  Stephan and Kaz are coming over to eat my delicious chicken Tikka Masala!  yummy! then we are going to rock!

Aloha! 
Jules

Dusk Standup Session Maui-Style

I love to mixup my workouts. Just hitting the gym and working the stationary bike and weights alone has never been my thing. Gotta keep it interesting!

So, here and there we'll throw in a rock-running session.

Running rocks involves a good sandy bottom beach with a large area underwater to work with, a large rock that will hold your body underwater and the sheer willpower to endure this type of training. You dive down (usually about 10 feet or so), grab hold of the rock, lean forward and start to sprint underwater while holding the rock. They run as far as they can, then let go, surface for air and repeat these steps until tired.

Rock running improves your stamina, strength and ability to hold breath underwater.