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Track Meet!

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Track '11This past Saturday the ICSV track team woke up at the crack of dawn, traveled to school, and promptly fell back asleep as we drove 3 hours to Budapest for first and only track meet this season.

I couldn’t be any prouder of how this team competed on Saturday. Though we only took 10 athletes to the meet, we managed to pull out 3rd place (out of 5 teams). And we had a lot of fun doing it!

Here is our medal breakdown:

Gold: Boys Shot Put, Boys Discus, Boys 400M Hurdles
Silver: Girls 4X100
Bronze: Girls Long Jump

We also had several close 4th place finishes and plenty of personal bests. This team is such a pleasure to coach and a lot of fun to be around. I can’t wait til next year!

More pictures to come. Stay tuned!

American Tour 2011

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We’ll be heading to America in just a few short weeks! Yay! Below is our general itinerary. We’ll update this as we figure out more specific plans. We can’t wait to see everyone. And eat steak.

June 17 – Arrive in San Diego – Proceed immediately to In-N-Out

June 19 – Church at Idyllwild Community Presbyterian

June 23 – Fly to Philadelphia

June 25 – Phillies Game!

June 26 – Church at Woodland Presbyterian

June 27 – Fly to Florida

June 29 – Going to Wizarding World! (It’s possible that one of us is more excited about this than the other.)

July 4 – Fireworks with the Klein Family

July 6 – Fly to Seattle

July 8-12 – Road trip from Seattle to Idyllwild with stops in Portland, Bay Area, and Santa Barbara

July 13 – Speak at Women’s Guild of Idyllwild Community Presbyterian

July 14 – Padres Game!

July 15-17 – Santa Barbara

July 17 – Church at Santa Barbara Community

July 18-30 – Idyllwild

July 30 – Fly back to Vienna

See you soon!

Hallstatt Half Marathon

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HallstattHallstatt is a quaint little village situated on the edge of a lake that just happens to be about 13.1 miles around. Besides the fact that it’s beautiful, I like this race because it has a bit of a small-town feel to it.

Race number pickup and pasta dinner are hosted at the local firehouse. Families stand alongside the course or lean out their windows to clap and cheer us through the race. You can even be stopped by the local train (as I did) if you don’t pace yourself just right.

I beat my target time of 1:50 by almost 4 minutes, turning in a time of 1:46:22. Not my best time ever, but I’m really happy with it. Especially since I lost about a minute when I was stopped at the train tracks.

There was also a man running barefoot and dressed like a caveman.

Hallstatt

I had the misfortune of being passed by him twice. Let’s just say that his outfit didn’t leave much to the imagination. YIKES!

 

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More pics of Hallstatt and the race are here.

Auf Wiedersehen!

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It’s that time of year again. We had our annual staff dinner last night. This is the night we set aside to honor folks who’ve served at ICSV. Along with acknowledging the people who’ve served here for 5, 10, and even 20 years, this is also the time we start saying goodbye to the folks who are headed home.  I kinda hate this night.

Picnik collage

I’m going to miss these faces!