Suhr the Blur

Well the cycling chapter of my life has most likely come to an end. I have been tempted by other interests in my life and was no longer willing to put in the training time necessary to ride at the level I was accustomed. So after a long summer decompressing from the last six years of training, I am now happily employed as a snowboard instructor at Copper Mountain, CO. Training for ski school has been a great learning experience and I have found joy in teaching students a new sport. I am mostly teaching students between the ages 6-15, with the occasional 3-5 year old and the occasional adult class. Most of the older students can pickup the idea of the sport in a day, and then only require practice, whereas with the smaller kids it is usually just a battle of trial and error and as long as they are having safe fun then the day is a success. However that is not always the view of the parents, and thus we have to explain that the sport requires fine motor control and independent foot...