Rebecca Sorensen-

We are right in the middle of our training week as we prepare for the first 2 of 4 Olympic team trail races. I have been training well despite the ever changing track conditions and in going from a night to morning sliding schedule. This last week’s focus has been all about the sliding and equipment for me. The method seems to keep me in the right frame of mind as we head into official training and to the races on the 14th and 15th. A few days ago we had our annual Randy Price Memorial Award and Luggage Lotto. Although the award was not given at this meeting, we continued the tradition of speaking about Randy and what he has meant to those who knew and slide with him and in sharing his unspoken message of strength and courage for those who didn’t. Randy found skeleton in 1999, 3 years into a thyroid cancer diagnosis. Skeleton was one of the few sports Randy could enjoy and control despite feeling ill most of his short sliding career. He would drive over 5 hours to the track just to take a few runs so that he could feel truly alive. He said that skeleton gave him a special gift. What Randy didn’t know, is that he gave us all a special gift by being a true representation of what an athlete should hold as the his or her highest value- do sport a sport because of the way it can change your life for the better- if you just let it...