Encore! Encore!

In the immortal words of Monty Python, "(We're) not dead yet."

This past weekend we were supposed to have three days straight of training (Fri, Sat, Sun). The plan was to have us forerun for the Western Regionals skeleton races in the four-man sled because let's be honest: its big, its fast, and it makes a lot of noise as it roars through a turn. Crowds love it and we would have loved to get a few more days of training in before the season ended.

But those hopes were dashed when we were told that there would be no bobsleds allowed around the races. The reasoning behind this decision depends on who you ask. Some cast the blame on the fact that there wasn't much time scheduled for the races themselves, but there have been comments made about something that someone irresponsibly did that caused this verdict to come down to eliminate bobsled for the weekend. We were frustrated and angry to put it mildly. Bobsledding has always been one of the biggest draws for tourists at the Utah Olympic Park and people love it when we train, but since we don't have as many athletes training out here as say skeleton or luge, we always are one of the first programs to suffer when it comes to training time. In other words, we get the shaft a lot.

So, we all quietly began to mentally and physically put our bobsledding season behind us and prepare for summer as we believed that the season was indeed over now.

But then the encore was called for.

It's not something I can talk a lot about right now due to the nature of what we will be participating in, but we are crossing our fingers for another opportunity to train and participate in a very cool project.

Basically what I'm saying is: More news to come so stay tuned!