Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Prapoutel-les-Sept-Laux is the place I went skiing yesterday. It’s not too far from l’Alpe d’Huez if you are familiar with the area.
For Jared’s reference, it’s about a hundred million times better than any skiing in Colorado.
Actually, it was ok. They were lacking a real deep snow base and there were a number of icy patches on the slopes so, at times, it was kind of like downhill skiing in Minnesota.
Just off the top of the second lift.
Valley looking towards Grenoble.
Valley looking towards Chambery and Aix-les-Bains.
Sitting around enjoying the pain apres dislocation. Life was awesome.
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Just watched the world’s cross championship on the teevee.
Page was clearly strong on the last lap and was leading almost the entire lap. One little mistake in the last few hundred meters cost him the rainbow jersey. Today demonstrated that Page is one of the top cross racers in the world.
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Shoulder feels better today.
For those who don’t recall, I fell down the stairs a few years ago and dislocated my left shoulder. It’s bothered me ever since but it has been a while since I have had trouble with it.
We went skiing up in the Alps yesterday morning east of Grenoble. On a descent through a bump section I planted a pole and dropped around a mogul and some kind of shock pushed the shoulder out of join again.
I quickly hit the deck in surprise and pain and, once I was laying in the snow, used the ground to ease the shoulder back into joint. Very painful, not much fun.
I then had to baby myself back down the mountain twice as I needed to take a lift to get back to where the ski station was located. It took a while but I got down ok.
Once back in Lyon one of my coworkers at the company called a friend who was a therapist for the FDJ.com pro team and who currently works for the French national downhill bike team. He came over and worked on my shoulder for 30 minutes to loosen up the tramatized muscles and then gave me some good pain pills so I could sleep last night. I also had a few glasses of champaign as well which helped.
I should have some photos from the skiing and a Motion Based report to post as soon as I find a decent internet connection. The hotel tonight is supposed to be “modern” so I am optomistic.
I am going to take is easy today but I should be pretty much back at full speed by the time I head home next Wednesday.
Tomorrow we go to the factory to see all the new cool junque for the 2008 model season. There will be no photos of that for you.
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