First Week

First week is finished and I'm just chillin and gettin ready for the next one. It's going to take a little time to get used to work-outs everyday and of course the infamous Colorado Springs elevation (the center is 6,000 feet above sea level...the air is thiiiiiiinnnnnnn). But most importantly was that my first week was a blast.

The strength and conditioning program is just getting started for me, so we're easing into it with stuff like over head squats, turkish get ups, RDLs, fun stuff like that. Most of the fencing practices are combined with the pentathletes, because modern pentathlon does five events and one of them is epee fencing. I got a taste of the recovery room, on tuesday I had my first cold plunge. And when they say "cold plunge" they don't mean cold like "cold shower" they mean cold like "feels like it could make a polar bear's nuts shrink". There are also athletic massages, sauna, hot tub, compression pants (I'm gonna try that one real soon) and a giant pile of cliff bars, power aid, energy bars etc.

But yeah....all in all this is just about the best place I've ever been in my life. So I'll just be getting back to resting my sore hamstrings and lookin forward to tomorrow.

-JP