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...course, the fans had more than enough reason to make the trip to Bright. With former head coach and athletic director William Cleary '56 at the helm during that decade, Harvard picked up a pair of ECAC championships at Lake Placid, advanced to the NCAA tournament seven times and earned the Crimson's only national championship during the 1988-89 campaign...
...Friday night was any indication, the Crimson should be looking at Lake Placid or beyond...
...January of 2000 my wife and I took a trip to Lake Placid and I took my first-ever ski lesson at the facility at Mt. Van Hoevenburg. The instructor was very patient and professional during the hour that I displayed no detectable ability on skis. Whatever experience I had from my first largely imaginary foray into the sport in the '80s was worse than useless. The specific technique used in biathlon, called "skating," proved immeasurably elusive for me, despite the fact that I was in the hands of a veteran coach in a one-on-one lesson...
...stress disorder, I slowly began focusing in on all the cool things that had happened. The few moments of balance and control I had felt on the skis (out of hours of pounding and snow-eating) and the excitement of working out on the actual Olympic course at Lake Placid (even though I was as far from Olympic glory as I was from being an astronaut) were much more vivid in my memory than the nasty, discouraging, humiliating, painful part of the trip, and by the time my ass stopped hurting I was ready for more...
...managed to work out on real snow a few more times (and it was not nearly as bad), but the coming of spring complicated things. Even in Lake Placid, the snow lasts only three or four months a year. Leaving eight months of hot, snowless weather when the nearest skiable snow is at the Arctic Circle. I contemplated various "dry land" training methods - Rollerblades and running drills and special excercises - but I realized these were for people who already knew what the hell they were doing. I was bad at it, let's be honest, and I wasn't going...