Tracy and I have just started our training camp out in Utah. Almost the entire population of U.S. biathletes from youth, to juniors, to seniors, will be out here for three weeks training at the 2002 Olympic Venue in Heber City, Utah (15min south of Park City). We have already seen snow as we drove through a white out on our way out to Heber from our home in Durango. After that the snow continued for the next two days and only really accumulated up in the higher elevations. It was still nice to see snow as it get us even more motivated for the upcoming season. The first week of the camp is just finishing and we had a tough, but successful week starting with hillbounding the first day. Next week we continue with some tough training, but have some exciting races at the end with and Individual on Saturday (17th) and a Sprint (19th). Tracy and I are both excited to see how our times compare and hopefully progressed from our times from these same races that we did periodically throughout the summer. Racing on the same venue throughout the year helps you to gauge your progress, ski speed and shape thoughout the year.