Well I am just getting ready for bed tonight and I am just so excited because we start sliding tomorrow night. I’m going to be so anxious all day tomorrow because we have to wait until 6:00 to slide.
I got my brand new sled on Friday night after I got back from being at the wind tunnel at RPI. I was so excited about my sled coming early because I really thought that I wasn’t going to get it until tomorrow night and I was going to be so stressed to pad and tape it really fast. I ran up and down the hallway and skipped my way down to the front desk. By the time I lugged my 65lbs box all the way up the stairs I was exhausted. I opened the box to find it packed with all packaging peanuts, after I took my sled out I got in the box with all the peanuts, mainly because it was the easiest way to clean them up. It is kinda fun to sit in a box full of peanuts!
My sled is perfect though, I am so excited to slide on it tomorrow, it fits me perfect and I am fully balanced. I finished padding it earlier today, that is a record for me. It took me a day and a half which is crazy because last year I spent 2 weeks padding it all because I was so lazy I think. There are a few minor placed where I can fix the tape a little bit, but I am going to wait because I know I will fix a few more things before that.
About the wind tunnel, the students at RPI, down in the Albany area created a wind tunnel just for skeleton. I went down on Friday to try out a few things, it was a really long day, but in the end I think it was totally worth it.
It’s hard to get sleepy when you are really excited, but I am off to try to sleep it would be good to wake up early even though I don’t slide until the night. But next week I slide at 8am. Ouch that means waking up at 6, can’t think about that yet!
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