Caitlin Compton

Hello Everyone,
Today is the official start to my blog with Finn Sisu Ski Shop in St. Paul, MN. I have been living in Minnesota for over 4 years and in that short time I have met a ton of incredibly inspiring and outgoing people from the all over the metro who have helped make the Twin Cities the perfect place for me to train.
I am originally from out East and moved to Minnesota after graduating from Northern Michigan University with my B.F.A. in Environmental Design. I hope to return to school and study Urban Planning and Development when I retire from international Cross Country Ski racing but that won’t be for a number of years. My current focus is to qualify for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. I am so excited that the Olympics are returning to North America and I think this gives us Americans a great chance to have some great performances! I am also excited that Amtrak offers service to Seattle from Minneapolis, and there is a 3 hour bus ride up to Vancouver included in the awesome ticket price! Hey, if I don’t make it as an athlete I am definitely going to watch!!!
So my blog will offer a glimpse into my world as an Elite Cross Country Ski racer and I will share all of the good times and difficult times along the way. Trust me there are many benefits to being a full time ski racer; great job description (outside enjoying the scenery for hours a  day), great training and ski equipment, and visiting and skiing in amazing parts of the World (South Korea, Japan, Sweden, Austria) and a few drawbacks; realizing that I can’t drive my dream car.
I hope to offer my training as an example of what I do on a daily basis, and if I can provide a meeting time and place, to invite my readers to join me at workouts! I’ll try to update this as much as possible to keep everyone informed to my progress and whereabouts!
Follow me on my path to the Olympics.